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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...

This book shares the story of Luis Álvarez Duarte (1949-2019), a child who wanted to be an artist. He was the sculptor of religious images, the creator of carvings such as El Cristo de la Sed, La Virgen del Patrocinio, the Macarena of New York, and the Christ of the Footballers of Buenos Aires.

Pombo: a man of Che's guerrilla is a never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo - a member of Guevara's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of an epic chapter in the history of the Americas illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic ...

Encarnación Ezcurra fue para muchos apenas la esposa de Juan Manuel de Rosas, el "Restaurador de la Leyes", que gobernó con mano de hierro las Provincias Unidas del Río del Plata. Pero ¿quién fue realmente Encarnación? Hija de ricos estancieros y con ciertas amistades de alta alcurnia, fue a la vez militante popular y líder de la Sociedad Popular Restauradora y la Mazorca, que aunaba a las clases bajas y castigaba a los enemigos. De fe cristiana, supo apoyar a su hermana Josefa que tuvo un hijo natural con Manuel Belgrano. Aguerrida defensora de su marido, tuvo la valentía de...