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Reflections on topics from war and crime to pop culture, in “a stunning collection . . . from the best essayist of his generation” (The New York Times).   For more than two decades, Andrew O’Hagan has been publishing celebrated essays on both sides of the Atlantic. The Atlantic Ocean highlights...

The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History The Irish are celebrated at home and abroad as explorers, freedom fighters and great writers and artists, but for every Tom Crean, Bernardo O'Higgins or James Joyce, there is a Hugh Gough, Antoine Walsh or Luke Ryan. This book is about...

Translate by Katarzyna Szuster The Dreamers and the Penitents is a collection of ten stories whose action takes place in contemporary times. However, the world presented has a duplicitous face, bleak and unknown to most. How can you know that a man you just walked past in a store or on the...

New York Times bestselling author Perri O’Shaughnessy has garnered impressive acclaim for her tough, passionate thrillers set against the lush Lake Tahoe landscape and the world of one remarkable character: Attorney Nina Reilly. In this spellbinding new novel, O’Shaughnessy delves deeper into...

Like great music, fine poetry has power that can infuse the soul, transform the mind, and transcend the mundane everyday experience of life with what is timeless and supreme.Songs of Hunger is an exceptional collection of poems – rich in language, imagery, symbolism and breadth of thought, feeling,...

With a Foreword by Krista Tippett–a poignant and beautiful collection of conversations and presentation from John O’Donohue’s work with close friend and former radio broadcaster John Quinn John O'Donohue, beloved author of To Bless the Space Between Us, is widelyrecognized as one of the...

Poems for a sullen age, lost in time... moonless and ungrateful. An anthem as a flood vanishing illusion."Eternity's still muddled.Three centuries flew away...To age us since now tired,Sneezes, laughs, vanished away...Old saurian tail was nothing,But this icy frozen brain,Our bodies' cells were melting,To sail us back ocean's rain..."Flood.

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A story of love and land, of winning friendships and having the courage to believe in your dreams. 11-year-old Chesca O'Brien, Howth's greatest (and only) Trick Rider plans to ride O'Malley, the farm's wild stallion, and to put on a show no one will forget - especially show jumping champion, Mary Murphy....

Los mejores libros jamás escritos Edición de Rocío Oviedo Pérez de Tudela, catedrática de literatura hispanoamericana en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Para muchos, Rubén Darío es el padre del modernismo. Los poetas parnasianos y simbolistas franceses ejercieron una gran...

Este volumen concentra los quince primeros cuentos de Rubén Darío, escritos entre 1881 y 1889 y nunca incluidos en libros sino sólo publicadas en periódicos. La edición y el estudio estuvieron a cargo de Alberto Paredes, mientras que el prólogo lo escribió Alfonso García Morales. Retrato del...

Poemas Rubén Darío, poeta nicaragüense, máximo representante del modernismo literario en lengua española (1867-1916) Este libro electrónico presenta «Poemas», de Rubén Darío, en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite...

“Cantos de vida y esperanza” escritos entre 1892 y 1905, suponen un cambio en la trayectoria de Rubén Darío. Se trata de una obra reflexiva, penetrada de una cierta melancolía. El autor acentúa el tono de revisión de su propia vida. Es este es el libro otoñal del poeta, al que se le va escapando...

Cuentos de Azul son los cuentos extraídos de la obra Azul...,libro de cuentos y poemas del poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío, considerado una de las obras más relevantes del modernismo hispánico. Se publicó por primera vez en Valparaíso el 30 de julio de 1888. Dos años después, en Guatemala,...