Poesía dramatizable para Educación Infantil y Educación Primaria

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this terrible place. One night Werner is woken by the sound of prison guards yelling. But its not Werner they want, its Herr Levin. Do your magic! they order him. Magic? In Auschwitz?

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en transito revises the...

William Fryer Harvey nació en Yorkshire, Inglaterra, en 1885, y estudió medicina en la universidad de Leeds. Dado que profesaba la fe de los cuáqueros, se dedicó a recorrer el mundo ejerciendo su oficio en los más diversos lugares de la tierra. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial fue condecorado por rescatar, a riesgo de su vida, al maquinista de un buque de guerra que había quedado atrapado entre gases tóxicos y hierros retorcidos. Aquel gesto altruista le acarreó una dolencia pulmonar que le obligó a retirarse a los cuarenta años. Regresó a Inglaterra y se dedicó a su otra...