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La influencia de su educación francesa se advierte en la única obra por la que lo conocemos: las "Fábulas en verso castellano para el uso del Real Seminario Bascongado" (1781), 157 fábulas distribuidas en 9 libros. Samaniego ridiculiza los defectos humanos en sus fábulas, imitando a los grandes fabulistas...

  El África encontramos la cara oculta de un continente que los periódicos suele ser el de las luchas tribales, la pobreza, los golpes de Estado. En cambio, apenas nos llega esa otra visión, también real, de la normalidad, del día a día vivido pacíficamente en muchos países del continente africano... ...Esa...

En este libro relata Jesús Carnicero los protagonistas, profesores y alumnos, ofreciéndonos un relato inolvidable, y una magnífica radiografía del Madrid de entonces. En 1958 el barrio madrileño de Vallecas es un inmenso chabolario, poblado por aquellos que buscan en la ciudad mayores oportunidades para los suyos. Pocos niños están escolarizados. Varios...

There are three horror stories in “The Room in the Tower and Other Ghost Stories”. The most interesting story is the first one: “The Woman in the Black Coat”. A young woman married a man. So she started to live in the man's house, but she looked at a woman...

Duncan McTavish lives in a castle on a Scottish island. He doesn’t have any money, and he can’t pay a large bill. There is only one thing he can do: sell his island. Acompañado por un CD de audio.

'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become “The Railway Children” - they know all the...

It's London, 1666. It's a hot, dry summer. A small fire starts in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane. Soon the city of London is burning and the fire-fighters can't stop the fire. People are running from their houses down to the River Thames. But how does the fire...

Flies are a nuisance. They are annoying when they buzz around you, but you can brush them away with your hand. After all, a fly is only about half the size of your fingernail. But suppose it wasn't. Catch a fly and look at it closely - look at...

For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his...

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are...