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El epistolario autógrafo del escritor andaluz supone un capítulo fundamental para la historia de la literatura decimonónica española.Estas cartas abarcan desde junio de 1880 hasta diciembre de 1932.

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

First published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes was destined to beget a whole new genre, the so-called picaresque novel. Its great popularity may be attributed largely to its daring autobiographical form, which allows the reader to observe the magnificent, conquering Spain of Charles the Fifth through the inner consciousness of a humble figure called Lazarus, whose name, perhaps, comes from the poor leper mentioned in the Gospels. The Lazarillo is the first literary expression of a feeling basic to the very existence of the Spanish people, especially since the fifteenth century: they were what...

El historiador y soci logo argentino Jos Luis Busaniche reuni en este libro singular y estimulante los testimonios personales de aquellos que por una u otra raz n trataron de cerca al Bol var de la espada pero que en las horas de su ntimo aburrimiento le a la nueva Elo sa. Las m s dis miles facetas de su existencia prodigiosa seaprecian en estas p ginas.