Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) fue el creador de la literatura fantástica de horror, que habría de influir sobre toda la literatura europea, y especialmente sobre los "poetas malditos": Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé y Verlaine. Escribió sesenta y ocho cuentos, entrelos que sobresalen El gato negro (que da nombre a este volumen), El tonel de amontillado, Ligeia, Los crímenes de la calle Morgue, La carta robada, etcétera, que constituyen lo que se ha dado en llamar Narraciones extraordinarias.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) created the horror fantasy genre which influenced the European literature of the time and especially the cursed poets: ‘Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Verlaine.’ He wrote …
El fantasma de Canterville, del escritor británico Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), es uno de sus relatos más famosos junto con su novela El retrato de Dorian Gray. El fantasma, es un personaje simpático que provoca más lástima que miedo y que es redimido por el amor. En esta edición se añade El crimen de lord Arthur Saville, personaje perseguido falsamente por el destino que jamás podrá ejecutar su mandato, así como dos breves cuentos más.
The Canterville Ghost was written by the British author Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and it is one of his most famous novels together with The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Ghost is …
A toddler learns about being a big sister in Bia Gets a New Baby Brother. Bia is a precocious two-year-old who is curious about everything! What she is most curious about now is her new baby brother. It’s hard for Bia to understand why the baby can’t do all the things that she can do. And his crying is really getting on her nerves! New big brothers and sisters will immediately relate to Bia as they learn important new rules about the new baby in the family. Told with simple language and charming pictures, Bia Gets a New Baby Brother …
Este volumen busca reivindicar el legado de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley y celebrar los doscientos años de la publicación de su obra maestra, "Frankenstein o el Moderno Prometeo" (1818). Para ello, expone la permeabilidad del mito del científico y su criatura a través de una serie en ensayos que exploran adaptaciones contemporáneas en diversos medios (literatura, cine, televisión, videojuegos, YouTube) que demuestran la relevancia de Frankenstein en nuestros días. Los capítulos permiten al lector conocer las reescrituras populares del teatro del siglo XIX y su impacto en la ficción cinematográfica más reciente; descubrir la influencia de Shelley sobre otras escritoras con …
It shows how a person can become their own personal life coach. This book will wake you up and make you aware that the human side of you, your ego, is causing most of your problems and you do not know it. Remember the saying “We are our own worst enemy”. The enemy is the human side of us. We need to go to the next level, the being level, the level of who we really are. The whole idea is about not having the human side of you, the ego, in charge of your life. Everything in life has …
Entrepreneurship continues to gain attention on a worldwide basis. It is the best way to renew society and to build a strong and diversified economy. Entrepreneurs follow a process: identify an opportunity, transform it into a business, stimulate it to grow. This is easier to say than to do it but, fortunately, over
the years a lot of knowlwedge has been created which facilitates the entrepreneurship process.
Entrepreneurial knowlegde includes unquestionable frameworks like the "business plan" but also builds on relevant frameworks from different business areas: valuing a company and measuring the creation of value, creating and motivating an appropiate team of …
Lectio Divina as a Ladder towards God is a theological work of re-sourcement. As suggested by the word itself, re-sourcement is a return to applying theology to the original sources found in Christianity, namely Scripture, Tradition, the Church Fathers (i.e., Patristics), and Apostolic Teachings. Lectio divina is, therefore, an ancient practice of prayer and hermeneutics with its roots in early Hellenistic Christian and Jewish traditions which takes us directly to the heart of the Christian tradition by drinking directly from the fresh spring of God’s living Word. Consequently, the author articulates this tradition in three parts. Examining this influential history, …
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