Agua Que No Quita La Sed

"El Niño de la Bola" es un ejemplo sobresaliente de la novela de tesis que se publicó en España en el siglo XIX. Fiel a la estética romántica, Alarcón desarrolla en ella un argumento lleno de colorido. También polemiza con los escritores liberales rechazando el racionalismo moderno. Desde su perspectiva, sin fe religiosa y sin las limitaciones que imponen los mandamientos de la moral cristiana, el ser humano estaría expuesto a una libertad excesiva y sucumbiría a la fuerza de sus pasiones más elementales. Esto motivó duros ataques de escritores liberales que criticaron su...

Del libro hindú original y de todos los conocimientos que se tienen actualmente sobre el amor y la expresión sexual, este libro recopila todos los misterios físicos del hombre y de la mujer para aprender qué preliminares, abrazos, besos y caricias son los más adecuados antes de practicar las distintas posturas para hacer el amor en una experiencia única y pasional.

The fourth and final volume in the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s epic of one man’s fateful life in medieval Norway Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil, bloody family vendettas, and rising tensions between secular powers and an ascendant church, Sigrid Undset’s spellbinding masterpiece now follows the fortunes of Olav Audunssøn to the final, dramatic chapter of his life as it unfolds in Winter, the last volume of the tetralogy. When the orphaned Olav and his foster sister Ingunn became betrothed in their youth, a chain of events was set in motion that...

At the center of this novel are two women—worlds apart, yet neighbors—who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-and-bone tattered and in her late eighties, she is a bundle of ferocity who has spent the last years sustaining herself on pride, and expressing that pride as a cat’s hissing anger. This strong and affecting novel traces the friendship of these wildly disparate women.