Garcia Marquez

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.

Esta es una selección de excelencia. Los pensamientos de Camilo forman parte del fundamento patriótico de la Revolución Cubana y muestran las influencias familiares, pedagógicas y cívicas que conformaron una conciencia antimperialista y una lealtad sin límite a Fidel. Numerosas son las anécdotas y acciones prácticas que revelan a un fidelista convencido, un cubano con una simpatía popular extraordinaria que compartió las causas de las luchas más avanzadas de América Latina y el mundo. Esta es una obra necesaria, para conocer su pensamiento propio, para entender y comprender al...

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as well as of older scholarship. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make...

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.