Dotado de una fabulosa imaginacion y de una increible capacidad de trabajo, Dumas subyuga al lector para atraparlo en la intriga de sus historias desde las primeras paginas. En La reina Margot, utilizando unas deslumbrantes escenas teatrales, nos situa desde el principio en medio de un complicado nudo de tensiones politicas y de pasiones humanas elementales (amor, odio, poder, ambicion).

Victima de aparentes intrigas, perdidas inexplicables de manuscritos sucesivos, incautada por la policia y retenida durante anos, Amor de don Perlimplin es, sin embargo, una autentica joya de las Letras Hispanicas. La edicion incluye la version facsimil y la transcripcion literal.

De la perfeccion clasica, casi gongorina, de Perito en lunas (1933), parte un recorrido y una mitologia personal que nos adentra en los temas humanos mas hondos de El rayo que no cesa (1934-1935): el amor vivido con un vitalismo tragico, el convencionalismo aldeano y el compromiso politico.

Abrumado por el peso de Don Quijote de la Mancha, Cervantes intenta hacer de este libro su obra maestra. El autor decide, casi al final de su vida, llevar a su fin el viaje que hacen a Roma sus dos enamorados protagonistas, obligados por las circunstancias a presentarse como hermanos. Este viaje sirve de marco a otras historias y a otros personajes cuyas acciones sirven, en mas de un sentido, de ensenanza.

La voz poetica de Rosalia de Castro, gallega y castellana, alumbro todo el siglo XIX. Los Cantares gallegos, en 1863, inauguran la literatura moderna en esta lengua. En las orillas del Sar (1884), aparecido cerca del termino de la vida de la autora, reune un conjunto de poemas en castellano que constituyen un autentico tratado de desolacion. Dificil sera encontrar en la literatura de su tiempo versos mas desazonantes ni que alcancen de forma mas directa el corazon del lector.

Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, Poetry Reader for Russian Learners helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are coded by level of difficulty. The text facilitates students' interaction with authentic texts by means of a complete set of learning tools, including biographical sketches of each poet, stress marks, annotations, exercises, questions for discussion, and a glossary. An ancillary Web site containing audio files for all poems can be found below.

In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbled across an ad between the stock market report and a story of a school visit to Marechal Petain in the personal columns of Paris Soir from December 31, 1941: "We are looking for a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15 years old, five feet tall, round face, gray-brown eyes, gray sportscoat, burgundy pullover, navy blue hat and skirt, brown athletic shoes. Send all information to Mr. and Mrs. Bruder, 41, Boulevard Ornano, Paris."
Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl who had run away from her convent school just before New Year's Eve, this ad set Modiano on a quest to find out everything he could about Dora Bruder and why she ran away from the Catholic boarding school that had been hiding her. He found only one other official mention of her name: on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942.
With no knowledge of Dora Bruder aside from these two records of disappearances, Modiano continued to dig for fragments from Dora's past. What little he found in official records or through remaining family members, Modiano transforms into a meditation on the immense losses of the period--lost people, lost stories, and lost history. As he tries to find connections to Dora, Modiano delivers a moving account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to the sights and sounds of Paris under the Occupation and the paranoia of the Petain regime. In his efforts to exhume her from the past, Modiano realizes that he must come to terms with the specters of his own troubled adolescence. The result is a montage of creative and historical material that unfolds as a moving rumination on loss.