Etiqueta: costumbrismo
John Steinbeck wrote some of the best and most famous American stories ever. Jody Tiflin is often alone and he knows little of the world. But one day he gets “The red pony”. He learns how to love and his whole life changes.
Two short stories about Toby, a "Newspaper Boy" who wants to be a detective while he was distributing the papers.
The main character of this story is “Marco”, who is boy and live on a farm near a small village. One day, he leaves his home and gets on a train to go to a big city, because he has nothing to do and he dislikes the life as...
How does a detective learn his job? How long does a police dog hold a thief? Which was the fingerprint that led to a killer?
Lewis Jones tell us the answers in this book titled "The Story of Scotland Yard "
Lewis Jones tells us in "The Story of Madame Tussaud's" how she opens its doors every morning, but for two hours before that, people had been hard at work on some of the models washing or cleaning hairs and clothes and coluring the faces of the models. They must...
Obu is eight years old and very clever. He is first in his class at school but he is lazy and doesn't work hard. His father wants to send him away to be a servant of a schoolmaster and his nasty wife. His mother wants Obu, her only son,...
Una de las grandes novelas de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra de la literatura victoriana. Jane Eyre es una novela clásica de amor, precursora del feminismo y la psicología moderna, sobre una huérfana que enfrenta su destino manifiesto gracias a su inteligencia e integridad inquebrantables. Controvertida y revolucionaria...
Pip is a poor, uneducated boy who works as an apprentice blacksmith for his sister's husband. Pip has got a serious dilemma. He's in love with the beautiful, arrogant Estella, and will do Pip anything to win her heart, but how? Then one day, opportunity knocks on his door,...
I am writing a book about Spain in the Golden Age and I am reading the plays of Calderón. I am now reading El Médico de su Honra. It ia acruel play. It reminds me of a man I met in Seville a long time ago. I remember it...
Who are “The Hopi Indians”? Where they live? Sue Heringman tells us about the Hopi Indians, their Villages, Reservations, Religion… She will explain us the Snake Dance, the Kachinas and Bad Spirits, the Cacique and their present and future.
