El extraordinario Gustavo Rol

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Castelar, hombre del Sinaí (1935) la tercera biografía —al nuevo modo— que Benjamín Jarnés publicó en la colección orteguiana «Vidas españolas e hispanoamericanas del siglo xix» nos acerca a una faceta poco reconocida aún del prosista «más puro» de su generación: la de un escritor responsable, fiel a su época y consciente de su histórica misión. Jarnés nos invita a descubrir el yo castelarino y sus circunstancias decimonónicas a la luz de su presente republicano. En los preliminares y el aparato crítico se desvelan por vez primera las fuentes —algunas inéditas y...

Su vida pública y privada. Maria Sáenz Quesada no se limita a ofrecer solo un relato biográfico de esta mujer apasionada, sino que le da vida a la historia de nuestro país en sus primeros años.

Fifty years ago Richard Bach made a promise to himself when he was a child: to write a book containing the sum of all he has learned and deliver it to his nine-year-old self, Dickie. He forgot his promise until one day. Whilst flying in his Delta Wing, he found Dickie, who expected him to fulfill his promise.