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1) Fiesta
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"Esta hermosa y punzante historia narra la excursión a Pamplona de un grupo de americanos e ingleses exiliados en París en los años veinte, donde se reencuentran la seductora Brett Ashley y el desventurado Jake Barnes, que durante la Primera Guerra Mundial vivieron un amor genuino e irrealizable. El ambiente del París rive gauche y las descripciones de las corridas de toros en España, brutalmente realistas, son la metáfora de una era de bancarrota...
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It's been ten years since Handry was wrenched away from his family and friends, forced to wander a world he no longer understood. But with the help of the Ancients, he has cobbled together a life, of sorts, for himself and his fellow outcasts. Wandering from village to village, welcoming the folk that the townships abandon, fighting the monsters the villagers cannot--or dare not--his ever-growing band of misfits has become the stuff of legend, a...
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"The return to print of a classic novel of postwar American literature credited with being the most accurate fictional portrayal of the promises and bitter disappointments that heralded the expatriation of Black intellectuals and artists. The protagonist of John Williams's angry and brilliant novel The Man Who Cried I Am is Max Reddick, a Black American writer-a gifted novelist, a journalist, and a presidential speechwriter-who has spent his career...
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"The first Norton Critical Edition of Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun also Rises features the authoritative text of the modern classic with new annotations by Michael Thurston. The novel follows expatriate journalist Jake Barnes as he travels through Paris and Pamplona pursuing the favor of the Lady Brett Ashley. In addition to the annotated text, the "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides valuable biographical information as well as letters offering...
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