Laura Méndez de Cuenca (1853-1928): nueve estampas en torno a una escritora singular

„The enamel pictures of the Hungarian Saint Crown” mark the pick of the successful painter’s carrier of Éva Nyáry. Her uncle, Ernest Nyáry,Archbishop of Baghdad inspired the paintings of equal size, representing the pictures decorating the crown of our first king, Saint Stephan’s, presented with national and international recognition to the interested public. The artist published the birth of the art pieces and the spirit and history of the crown in a work published with the similar title in 2002. She took the pen in 2006 and composed her following book entitled The Ancient...

En 1826 una expedición capitaneada por Robert FitzRoy descubría un canal que bordeaba la Isla Grande de la Tierra del Fuego por el sur. El canal recibiría el nombre de su barco, el Beagle. Además, secuestraron a tres indios yaganes (yámanas) y se los llevaron a Inglaterra. Dos años después los devolvieron a su tierra. En esta nueva expedición, participaba el joven Charles Darwin, quien calificó a los indígenas de salvajes miserables y degradados. Uno de los propósitos de E. Lucas Bridges al escribir este libro fue desmentir esta y otras afirmaciones similares. Nacido en Ushuaia,...

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

The renowned gay figure skater describes how he overcome such painful times as the deaths of his loved ones and his struggle with drugs and alcohol while presenting his experience with the universal determination to never quit. Reprint.