Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essa…
An epic poem of Argentina, in the "gauchesque" style. An adaptation of the ballad singing culture of the gaucho minority that saw its way of life threatened by social and political changes of the 19th…
Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to p…
In sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy sets sail on a ship bound for the New World. An inland expedition ends in disaster when the group is attacked by Indians. The Witness explores the relationship …
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit…
Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Büchners "Woyzeck". Als Büchner im Februar 1837 starb, hinterließ er ein Konvolut von vier Entwurfshand…
Desde su publicación en Bogotá (1867), las ediciones de María se han multiplicado a lo largo del XIX y del XX. Esencialmente romántica, tiene, sin embargo, elementos realistas y costumbristas que evid…
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Ma…
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intención de estudiar cine, …
اولین بار ترجمۀ داستان «گروه محکومین» نوشتۀ فرانتس کافکا در سال ۱۳۲۷ در ایران منتشر شد. این کتاب در دو قسمت نوشته شده بود. بخش نخست به مقاله «پیام کافکا» نوشتۀ صادق هدایت اختصاص داشت -که به بررسی زندگ…
