Sprachnationalistische Bewegungen in der Romania

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

The titles included in this exceptional series gather the masterworks of some of world literature’s most celebrated names. Painstaking translations from the original English, German, Greek, and Russian preserve the essence of these classics for a Spanish-speaking audience, and the books themselves are elegantly and impeccably bound, as befits the contents. Whether drama, fiction, or philosophy, these magnum opera provide windows into social and historical contexts considerably different to the present day. Two of Aristotle’s most fundamental works, the Nicomachean Ethics and Metaphysics,...

Herman Melville (1819-1891) no sólotiene asegurado un puesto de honor en la literatura norteamericana, sinoque ocupa uno de los lugares privilegiados en la historia de la literaturauniversal, como demuestra su actual prestigio y el intenso debate acercade su complejo mundo literario. Como ocurre con demasiada frecuencia, Melvilleno alcanzó la fama en vida: su novela más popular, MobyDick, publicada cuando el escritor contaba poco más de treintaaños, pasó casi inadvertida. La mayor parte de sus librostiene el mar como escenario, pero el genio de Melville trasciendeel simple relato...

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.