Anecdotas de La Patria Gaucha

Cuando el conde de Essex sucedió a su padrastro, el conde de Leicester, como el favorito de la reina Isabel I de Inglaterra, éste tenía veintiún años y ella, más de cincuenta. La soberana era autoritaria y exigente; su favorito, consentido y ambicioso, pero también inteligente y consciente de su privilegio. Esta insólita relación le viene al Lytton Strachey como anillo al dedo para desplegar su estilo sarcástico y retratar una astuta lucha por el poder con un sutil transfondo de sexualidad reprimida. Isabel y Essex es una de las aproximaciones más originales que se han realizado a...

“Mi Vida...en uniforme” in English means “My Life ...in uniform” and is a sequel to my first book titled “Mi Calle, Mi Barrio ,Mi Pueblo” which again translated to English means “My Street, My Neighborhood, My Town”. Each one of those books narrates a distinct phase of my life with all the anecdotes , persons , and situations that formed me as a person. Mi Vida starts where Mi Calle ends and walks the reader while having a conversation, as good friends do, through my life as a college student and then as a United States Army Officer for twenty one years which included a war ,...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

El libro está formado por 47 capítulos cortos. Cada uno de ellos versa sobre una de las 47 películas interpretadas por la famosa y mítica María Félix, de las que hablan la propia actriz, los directores y actores con los que trabajó, críticos cinematográf