Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."--Saturday Review of Literatur...more
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shi...more
Ernesto Sabato con su nueva obra nos encanta y nos define como seres humano. Una reflexión sobre la pérdida de valores en la sociedad occidental y una invitación a crear una nueva cultura humanística.
First published some sixty years ago, a Spanish-language edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicles the hardships and suffering enduring by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression. (Historical Fiction)
Publicada originalmente bajo el título de \"El sentido de la ciencia ficción\", en 1966, esta obra marcó un hito fundacional en el campo de la teoría literaria. Por un lado se la reconoce como el primer ensayo en castellano dedicado al género; por otro, dio carta de ciudadanía a un corpus de obras que aún no pasaban de ser simples manifestac...more