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El jugador, escrita en 1866 y publicada en 1867, refleja la propia adicción de Dostoyevski al juego de la ruleta durante su estancia en Wiesbaden, presentada como la ciudad ficticia de Roulettenbourg de la novela;​ y su pasional estadía en Europa con Apollinaria (Polina) Prokófievna Súslova, de quien se enamoró perdidamente. El jugador contiene todas las características de sus novelas más famosas: dramatismo, tensión casi intolerable, agresividad y revelación punzante y sutil de estados anímicos vividos y superados por el genial escritor. Dos pasiones principales campean en este...

Uno de los personajes más fascinantes en la historia de México. Porfirio Díaz. Su vida y su tiempo es la biografía definitiva sobre esta figura indiscutible de nuestra historia. Sin redimir ni satanizar, este libro es el mayor esfuerzo por contar las cosas como en realidad sucedieron. Al triunfar la República contra la Intervención y el Imperio, los liberales conquistaron el poder en México, pero fueron consumidos por la discordia, divididos con respecto de la reelección del presidente Juárez. Unos estaban a favor; otros estaban en contra. Los que estaban en contra postularon la...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

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