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1) Vera Cruz
Language
English
Description
During the Mexican Revolution of 1866, two American adventurers sign up to escort a carriage from the palace of Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico City to the seaport of Vera Cruz. Aboard the carriage is a beautiful French countess and a treasure of three million dollars in gold coins. Includes original theatrical trailer
Author
Publisher
Booket
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Ella es apenas una jovencita mexicana de diecisiete años y él un destacado militar francés con ideales muy claros sobre su misión en México. Josefa de la Peña y el mariscal Achille Bazaine se enamoran con sólo cruzar unas cuantas miradas. La juventud de ella lo seduce; la gallardía y el poder que él representa la hacen olvidar la diferencia de edades.
She is just a seventeen-year-old Mexican girl and he is an outstanding French soldier with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"'The Divine Comedy' begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Allen Mandelbaum's astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece that genius whom...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the triumphs and mishaps of Columbus and other explorers, following the naturalists--both famous and obscure--whose investigations of the world's fauna and flora fueled the rise of science and technology that propelled Western Europe towards modernity.
18) Crimen y castigo
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
1996
Language
Español
Description
"¿Por qué hay que leer Crimen y castigo ?
Pues porque Crimen y castigo es el producto de un genio cuyo mundo gira entre la muerte y la locura, porque Dostoievski era un tío que retornaba vivo de aquellos tenebrosos mundos (sus ataques) directamente para escribir historias que también puedan ser devoradas por la juventud del siglo XXI. Y porque Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski ha sido el escritor que ha compuesto los análisis psicológicos más...
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