Aventura y revolución mundial presenta una selección de escritos de viaje de José Carlos Mariátegui que permite abordar su trayectoria y su obra desde otra perspectiva, para leerlas a la luz de un cosmopolitismo moderno, un deseo sostenido de movilidad, una apuesta revolucionaria original que excede toda frontera nacional.
These letters to (and from) Finlay's friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned 'Little Sparta'.
In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy.
Warten und Hoffen – das ist die bewegende und autobiografische Geschichte eines kleinen Waisenjungen aus der Nachkriegszeit, dem es gelungen ist, sich nach und nach ein eigenes, selbstbestimmtes Leben aufzubauen.
Con una mirada más allá de muchas convenciones, Anne Lister escribió, de forma sistemática y minuciosa hasta su muerte, sus diarios; en ellos recoge sus experiencias personales y cotidianas —dibujando así el paisaje social, económico, político y geográfico de su época—, y los detalles de sus relaciones con otras mujeres.
Publicado en Francia en 1973, y en México en 1974, "Vida y muerte del Chile popular", del destacado sociólogo francés Alain Touraine, aparece -y quizás circula- por primera vez en nuestro país.
From the much-celebrated author of the satirical novel Evelina (1778), this volume is the collected journals and private correspondence of Fanny Burney, Queen Charlotte's Keeper of the Robes.
Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz.
Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era.
God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "e;Father Lin,"e; or Dominique Maurice Pourqui, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at the local mission of the Socit des Missions Etrangres de Paris (MEP).
This volume presents a selection of 500 letters by Clarence Darrow, the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Here is young Sam Clemens-in the world, getting famous, making love-in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity.
'The great Australian writer's masterpiece' THE TIMES'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Marvellous, all eight hundred pages of it' COLM T IB N'Dazzling, fearless greatness.
A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville’s later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system.
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined “republic” of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.