18 books like Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda
Immortality
Immortality
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El corazón del Tártaro
When editor Sofia Zarzamala receives a threatening telephone call she realizes that the past that she thought had been forgotten has caught up with her, and she flees for her life while trying to come to terms with her relationships with her father and her brother.
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Los funerales de la Mamá Grande
Huit contes écrits en 1962. "L'enfance de l'art", comme le note A. Rinaldi. Ou plus explicitement des esquisses pour ce qui deviendra ##Cent ans de solitude##. Des textes tropicaux, baroques, avec des reflets fantastiques.
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa hates his job. He works himself to exhaustion as a traveling salesman to support a family that takes him for granted. One morning, his whole life changes. He wakes up to discover that he has turned into a giant insect. As he and his family come to grips with the fantastical event, The Metamorphosis explores themes of alienation, family loyalty, and unconditional love.
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Pájaros en la boca
"Pájaros en la boca y otros cuentos supone la mejor vía de entrada al fascinante universo de quien, tras su nominación al Man Booker International Prize en 2017 con Distancia de rescate, es una de las voces de las letras hispanas con más proyección en el actual panorama literario internacional. Heredera de la más prestigiosa tradición literaria, en la línea de Raymond Carver y Flannery O'Connor,…
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Historia de la vida del Buscón
*La vida del Buscón* (de título completo *Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado don Pablos; ejemplo de vagamundos y espejo de tacaños,* y conocida también como *El Buscón)* es una novela picaresca en castellano, escrita por Francisco de Quevedo. El libro se publicó por primera vez en 1626, aunque circuló antes en copias manuscritas algunas de las cuales se conservan hoy en día. Quevedo nunca…
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Trionfo della morte
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Coming of Age in Franco's Spain
Coming of Age in Franco's Spain
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Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo
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The Lands of the Saracen
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Journey Without Maps
This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and…
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The scapegoat
Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself."Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are…
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Nada
*Nada* es la primera novela de la escritora barcelonesa Carmen Laforet y una de las obras literarias más importantes de la España del siglo XX. Se trata de una obra existencialista que representa el estancamiento y la pobreza que se vivieron en la posguerra española, durante los primeros años del franquismo. Dotada de un estilo literario que supuso una renovación en la prosa de la época, *Nada*…
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La tía Julia y el escribidor
La relación amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que él, la tía Julia, y la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio donde Varguitas trabaja, son las dos historias en que se vertebra el argumento de *La tía Julia y el escribidor.*
La noble pasión amorosa entre la tía Julia y el aprendiz de novelista, que la sociedad…
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La vida es sueño
Si Calderón es el autor teatral barroco por excelencia, cabe también decir que ***La vida es sueño*** es una obra que sustancia los grandes temas de este movimiento. La historia del príncipe Segismundo, que sale de la cueva en la que había sido encerrado por su padre para convertirse en rey por breve tiempo -un tiempo que fue un sueño- antes de ser devuelto de nuevo a ella, da pie a un complejo…
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Ascent into hell
When Hugh Donlon chooses the priesthood over his love for Maria Manfredy, he begins a series of events that will see him become disillusioned and disgraced as well as wealthy and powerful -- with a chance to choose again.
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Les belles images
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Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia
An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic.
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