Cristiano Ronaldo

A la poesía taurina, dice Carlos Marzal, le conviene ser menos taurina que poética. La propia riqueza ritual de la fiesta, en efecto, representa uno de sus mayores riesgos literarios, porque pone a disposición de los poetas un atrezo, un repertorio de elementos adjetivos que tienden al tremendismo o los oropeles gremiales, el costumbrismo circunstancial o la grandilocuencia funeraria. Buscando la sutileza, la levedad, y al mismo tiempo el núcleo esencial de la tauromaquia, esta antología personal prescinde de los clásicos más obvios -Manuel Machado, Gerardo Diego, Lorca, Alberti o...

Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the United States.

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

Las dos comedias cortas que forman este libro se desarrollan en una Edad Media irreal, fantástica y divertidísima. Brujos y brujas, doncellas, reyes, dragones, alquimistas y trovadores, héroes y malvados... se mezclan para conseguir un resultado desternillante.