Don Quijote de las mallas y los libros gigantes

Candela always passes in front of a house covered with vines on her way home from school. The old mansion has been abandoned for so long that it must be concealing some sort of mystery. She has kept her distance, fearfully quickening her pace, but today a disturbing detail has called her attention: the glass door to the first-floor balcony is ajar. And if that isn't enough, she also seems to hear a whispering voice. Is there someone in the house? Curiosity can be more powerful than fear, and Candela obeys her instinct and crosses the threshold to find out who--or what--is hiding within.

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Junto con Poesía y verdad , Viaje a Italia es la otra gran obra autobiográfica de Goethe, en la que detalla uno de los períodos más importantes de su vida: la estancia de un año y medio en Italia. Este viaje -la doble estadía en Roma y el itinerario hasta Sicilia- propició una serie de notas que, reelaboradas en este volumen, no se publicarían hasta cuarenta años después. En ellas Goethe describe con minuciosidad -y haciendo gala de un estilo sumamente lírico- los lugares, gentes y costumbres de los pueblos y ciudades que recorrió, así como los palacios, iglesias y otras obras...

"Nick the Knight isn't the greatest knight. Everybody knows that he's the smallest knight in the land... Too tiny to ride a horse, can't shoot an arrow to save his life, and can't even lift his sword. Even Nick doesn't believe he's very brave- in fact, he's scared to death of spiders! But, one day..."