El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha

The first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorite to this day for its vigorous colloquial style and the earthy realism with which it exposes human hypocrisy.

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As is normal with one of the most influential texts in the history of mankind, the Torah has been the subject of several translations, and this book presents the one by two Sephardic Jews, Yom Tov Atías and Abraham Usque, published for the first time in 1553 in the Italian city of Ferrara, in a beautiful facsimile based on the edition published by Meir Halevi Leteris in 1942 in Buenos Aires.

Spanish language translation of Twenty-Four Hours a Day. Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. "For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic...

«Un brillante dardo al blanco de nuestra más inmediata contemporaneidad, lleno de humor y ese criterio de la gravedad que exigen las mejores parodias.» J.E. Ayala-Dip, Babelia, El País. Jerónimo Frank, un rico banquero austríaco, lo abandona todo y se instala en una pequeña isla del Adriático, donde reabre el gran almacén «El Europeo». Pronto se concierta su matrimonio con la bella joven Alia Emar. La boda se prevé espectacular. Sin embargo, en el ánimo de Jerónimo pesa la tráfica leyenda del antiguo propietario del almacen y su joven esposa. En el caso de Alia es el amor de...

La Tierra, el planeta original, explotó hace algo más de diez mil años. Por aquel entonces el hombre ya había iniciado su periplo por el espacio. En esta nueva Era, la guerra y la paz son elementos de una misma balanza que se equilibran cuidadosamente desde La Colonia, el enclave científico por excelencia. Desde allí, la controladora Maralda Tardes detecta actividad bélica en un planeta alejado de cualquier ruta comercial, y decide iniciar un protocolo estándar de inspección. Mientras tanto, Ferdinard y Malhereux, dos jóvenes chatarreros, esperan pacientemente en el subsuelo de...

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

El libro tibetano de los muertos es un clásico de la sabiduría budista tibetana, una guía con instrucciones para que el difunto alcance la iluminación. El nombre original en tibetano es Bardo Thodol «La liberación mediante la escucha durante el estado intermedio», se escribió como una guía para leer en voz alta al difunto en el estado intermedio, momento en que abandona el cuerpo físico y nace de nuevo bajo otra forma o se libera de la reencarnación y muerte. Para ello, el difunto tendrá la oportunidad de transitar por los tres bardos hasta llegar a ser liberado: Chikhai Bardo...