Morir por la patria

The supernatural appeal of Stoker's Dracula continues to hold readers spellbound more than a century after its initial publication. This work by Bajarlía is an important precedent in that concerning the study of vampirism. Through forceful and direct language, he analyzes Stoker's vampire-triad. This essay includes four additional, unpublished chapters that serve as a crucial part to this retelling of a classic.

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José Martí (La Habana, 1853-Dos Ríos, 1898), Cuba. Era hijo de Mariano Martí Navarro, valenciano, y Leonor Pérez Cabrera, de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Martí empezó su formación en El Colegio de San Anacleto, y luego estudió en la Escuela Municipal de Varones. En 1868 empezó a colaborar en un periódico independentista, lo que provocó su ingreso en prisión y más tarde su destierro a España. Vivió en Madrid y en 1871 publicó El presidio político en Cuba, su primer libro en prosa. En 1873 se fue a Zaragoza y se licenció en derecho, y en filosofía y letras. Al año siguiente...

Desmond Seward nació en París y se formó en Gran Bretaña. Desde que en 1972 apareciera la primera versión de Los monjes de la guerra, ha entrado en la Orden de Malta, lo que le ha dado la oportunidad de profundizar en los temas que siempre le han interesado. Entre su extensa bibliografía destacan The Bourbon Kings of France (1970), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1978), Napoleon and Hitler (1990) y Caravaggio: a passionate life (1998). Con posterioridad ha estado trabajando en el estudio de la llamada Guerra de las Rosas.

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...