Julio Romero de Torres

Con 55 años, Joseph Conrad recibió la propuesta de escribir sus memorias para la English Review. El resultado fue un texto breve, estructurado sin orden cronológico, con una idea muy particular del género autobiográfico. Sin ánimo confesional, “sin ninguna comezón por justificar mi existencia”, Crónica personal es una hermosa colección de recuerdos elaborada con la complejidad y el elevado criterio del arte novelístico conradiano, y dedicada especialmente a los acontecimientos e impresiones que se produjeron en el umbral de lo que él llamó sus “dos vidas”: la vida del mar...

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

Novela de epoca que relata la vida personal de Maruja, su emprendimiento y su busqueda de la felicidad.

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...