Macacha Güemes

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A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

Provides an overview of the life of Porfirio Diaz, discussing his terms as President of Mexico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his controversial role in Mexican history.

La próspera fortuna de don Bernardo Cabrera es una comedia teatral de corte histórico del dramarutgo Antonio Mira de Amestua. Se basa en la vida de don Bernardo Cabrera, noble aragonés que lideró la conquista de Mallorca y llegó a ser consejero del rey Pedro III, si bien cayó en desgracia tras ser acusado de traición. Antonio Mira de Amescua es un poeta y dramaturgo español nacido en Guadix (Grandada) en 1577 y fallecido en la misma localiad en 1644. Enmarcado en el Siglo de Oro Español, su obra teatral entronca directamente con el auto sacramental, la comedia religiosa y el...