Historia de un chico es una obra maestra, una novela de iniciación y un clásico de la literatura gay. En el conservador Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos en la segunda posguerra, el narrador, un joven de precoz curiosidad intelectual, sensibilidad artística y anhelo romántico se enfrentará a los ritos propios del paso de la infancia a la adolescencia, y al descubrimiento de su propia homosexualidad, de la que buscará «curarse». Historia de un chico es también una puerta al enorme y singular atlas...
History of Joseph Smith, by His Mother is a biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, according to his mother, Lucy Mack Smith. Shortly following the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, and into 1845, Lucy Mack Smith dictated her recollections and family story to Nauvoo schoolteacher Martha Jane Coray who compiled these books of notes and other sources into a manuscript. Publication of the book came with the great controversy. After its publication, Brigham Young declared...
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences and observations fighting for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the shaping events on his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write, in 1946, «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it.»
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences and observations fighting for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the shaping events on his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write, in 1946, «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it.»