El Precio de La Fortuna

La mas intrigante historia de amor, entre una mujer anonima, con el numero uno de los cantantes de la epoca, marcada por la confusion y el infortunio; ella misma, desvela los secretos y mentiras de los eternos amantes, en la semana de su boda, su vida y su muerte."

It is a collection of autobiographical stories and essays by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It consists of previously unpublished letters, notes and also three essays originally written for and published first in the Esquire magazine during 1936. Table of Contents: My Lost City The Crack-Up Pasting It Together Handle with Care Afternoon of an Author Early Success My Generation Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the...

Esta novela narra la vida de Genaro, hijo de inmigrantes italianos, que usa la herencia paterna para estudiar y mejorar su posición social, sin embargo, lleva en la sangre la mezquindad de su familia y acaba recurriendo a estrategias cobardes para lograr dinero y prestigio. Eugenio Cambaceres (1843-1889) fue un abogado, político y escritor argentino. Hombre polémico, recibió críticas como diputado debido a un escándalo romántico y a sus ideas liberales; como escritor, por el crudo realismo de sus ficciones, herederas del naturalismo europeo.

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist.Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation. By 1899, he was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement, which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of "conscious" workers. At the heart of all...

Three generations of women face their particular demons, the prejudices of their times and the imposition of a femininity that, invariably, leads to solitude. Machistofeles is a feminist saga filled with sakti (feminine energy), devastating family asymmetries, masculine women, feminine men, a lesbian chic way of life, peepshows, rebellious adolescents, postwar heroins, psychiatric jails, and dictatorships.