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Las personas que durante su infancia sufrieron abusos pueden volverse adictas al sufrimiento y al dolor. Esta es la historia verídica de un hombre de éxito que tuvo que luchar a brazo partido contra él mismo para librarse de la más terrible adicción que alguien puede padecer.

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

Tolkien: hombre y mito ahonda en el trasfondo filosófico y el contexto cultural que moldearon la génesis de la Tierra Media, así como en el uso que Tolkien hace del mito: para él, debe suponer un salto no fuera de la realidad, sino al corazón de la misma. Asimismo, Pearce describe la relación que el magistral escritor mantuvo con sus colegas literarios más próximos y desvela la incómoda relación entre Tolkien y C. S. Lewis, el autor de los libros de Narnia.

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...