Los Medinaceli

Las biografías escritas por Herbert Lottman constituyen todo un acontecimiento cuando aparecen publicadas en el mundo entero. No sólo porque elige cuidadosamente sus personajes, sino porque, al situarlos en un contexto histórico más amplio, investigado y analizado con meticulosidad, acaban convirtiéndose en libro de cabecera de lectores curiosos y en referencia ineludible para especialistas. Por ejemplo, para trazar esta historia de toda una dinastía que hace Historia, Lottman ha buceado enarchivos inéditos y en correspondencias privadas jamás consultadas hasta ahora. «Ser rico como...

The intimate story of two of the most famous, yet enigmatic, figures in modern literature—Jack Kerouac and his friend, traveling companion, and hero, Neal Cassady—this is a firsthand account of life among the Beat generation, written by the woman who was Cassady’s wife and Kerouac’s lover. Beginning with the early days of Kerouac and Cassady’s friendship, Carolyn Cassady’s riveting memoir narrates the explosive success of Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s "Howl," the flowering of the Beat generation, and the social revolution of the 1960s that saw Kerouac and Cassady taken...

The "Channel" for Ramtha, a thirty-five-thousand-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis, recounts her determined rise from her impoverished childhood to become a popular spiritual guide.

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...