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Los cuentos incluidos en este y los demás libros, son una mezcla de tradición oral y fantasía, para hacer más sencilla y amena la lectura de los niños y de los adultos, en un intento por recuperar y mantener la energía y la magia oculta, y a la vez presente, en cada rincón de la Selva Maya, en sus pueblos, sus cenotes , sus milpas y su gente. En este libro encontrarás relatos e historias fantásticas que he atesorado en mi memoria desde el primer día que llegue a vivir en la jungla donde inicia el día, cada día en nuestro México, y donde, en pleno siglo XXI, todo continúa...

Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) is the most prolific and important woman writer of the 19th century in Colombia. She is an exceptional representative of Colombian intellectual life of that century, not only for the caliber of her writing, the divergent disciplines that she researched and wrote about, and the intense cultural work that she undertook. An avid reader, in her travels to England and France, she personally lived the debates regarding the public presence of the woman writer, as well as the influence that women should or could exercise in society, especially in the lives of...

"Ser infeliz" (título original en alemán: "Unglücklichsein"), es un relato corto escrito por Franz Kafka en 1913.

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...