Desempolvando a los clásicos

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

The titles included in this exceptional series gather the masterworks of some of world literature's most celebrated names. Painstaking translations from the original English, German, Greek, and Russian preserve the essence of these classics for a Spanish-speaking audience, and the books themselves are elegantly and impeccably bound, as befits the contents. Whether drama, fiction, or philosophy, these magnum opera provide windows into social and historical contexts considerably different to the present day. From the classic novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Depuis longtemps - depuis toujours ? - Jacques Chancel observe et confesse la plupart de ses contemporains. Du plus illustre au plus humble. De l'écrivain au sportif. De la star éphémère aux héros du siècle. Des rois aux rebelles. Tous, un jour ou l'autre, se sont retrouvés devant lui. Et grâce à Jacques Chancel, c'est un peu de la mémoire de notre temps qui - de {Radioscopie} au {Grand échiquier} - s'est mystérieusement élaborée. Témoin attentif, il s'est nourri d'autrui, il a fait son miel de leurs confidences, de leurs destins. Guetteur passionné, il rend hommage à la vie, ...