New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

El tejedor de Segovia es la fascinante aportación de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza al subgénero "comedia de bandoleros". En efecto, su argumento reporta enorme interés y su trama está magníficamente construida: con muchas acciones, más incorporación de suspense y provocación a la admiratio, entre otros aspectos. Los personajes se trazan con perfiles complejos, la versificación cumple funciones varias, y se asegura la atrayente y significativa espectacularidad para la puesta en escena. No extraña, pues, el éxito que obtiene en las tablas a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII; si...

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...