Juana de Arco

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, ...

Nicaragua ha estado llena de recurrencias violentas, desde siempre liberales y conservadores se han peleado la hegemona y control poltico de la nacin, la Nicaragua y hechos que sucedieron antes de mil novecientos setenta y nueve, nos relataban de luchas fratricidas que culminaron con el pacto de los generales (Somoza Garca y Emiliano Chamorro), acuerdo que le dio estabilidad a la nacin durante cuarenta aos. A seguir de mil novecientos setenta y dos, el fatdico terremoto del veintids de diciembre, meci los cimientos polticos de liberales y conservadores, cayendo la dinasta Somocista en un...

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa se le reconoce mundialmente como un cuentista de estilo y técnica brillantes. En los relatos aquí reunidos plasma, principalmente, las formas de vida del Japón feudal, en una mezcla de la antigua literatura japonesa con las influencias de la narrativa europea de autores como France, Wilde, Symonds y Loti, escritores que tradujo y difundió en su país. El primer cuento que publicó, «Rashōmon», junto a un relato posterior, «En el bosque», fueron usados como argumento para la película Rashōmon (1950), dirigida por Akira Kurosawa. Título original: 羅⽣⾨...

This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. Our best little books are 1,500-3,000 words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous buyers. ABOUT THE BOOK "It's really scary to go right up to the edge and jump off. If you can do it, it opens up this whole new world. So, if you have the courage to give up everything, you can achieve everything and you'll never be in danger of losing yourself in the process. That's what I've...