Florentino Pérez

MEET SARAH GREEN, A Woman of Purpose, is a fictional story and part of an anthology, Big Cliff, based on the life of Clifton Leroy Seeney and the family that was around him in the early part of the nineteenth century.

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

"Vivimos en el siglo XXI. Unas calzas y un jubón no nos acercan más a Shakespeare que unos tejanos y una camiseta". Esto lo dice Paul Edmondson, a quien varias décadas de lecturas y pensamiento crítico le permiten mantener el tono aforístico y revoltoso de un gran profesor a lo largo de libros enteros, por ejemplo este. Edmondson es uno de los mayores expertos en la vida y obra de Shakespeare que puedan encontrarse, y también uno de sus herederos en el sentido de "decir lo cierto, no lo que es debido" ("El rey Lear"). Quizá porque sabe que Shakespeare siempre nos devolverá a nuestra...