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As Infantas de Bragança e a Sua Descendência - História das Filhas de D. Miguel I
Esta é a história esquecida das Infantas Maria das Neves, Maria Teresa, Maria José, Adelgunda, Maria Ana e Maria Antónia de Portugal, filhas do Rei D. Miguel I. As suas características comuns de força de caráter, lealdade e fé, ditaram que conseguissem suportar com coragem as mais variadas vicissitudes que a Europa viveu desde o final do século XIX até meados do século XX. Com uma posição privilegiada no seio de algumas das casas reais do velho continente, assistiram ao decair de um mundo refinado e brilhante e transmitiram à sua prolífica descendência, que chega aos nossos dias, os mais tradicionais e enraizados valores desse tempo.
Viaje al Cercano Oriente en 1868
El diario de Alfonso de Borbón y Austria-Este, hermano del pretendiente carlista, narra su viaje a Constantinopla, Suez, Egipto y Palestina en la primavera de 1868 junto a su tío Francisco V, duque de Módena, y un grupo selecto de acompañantes. Con la candidez y curiosidad de sus dieciocho años, Alfonso relata sus experiencias y visiones que, por un lado, puede enmarcarse en el grand tour de los turistas aristócratas de los siglos XVIII y XIX y, por otro, se concibe como un viaje religioso iniciático para preparar su ingreso en el cuerpo de zuavos pontificios del papa Pío IX. El viaje es un magnífico testimonio tanto del fin de los regímenes absolutistas europeos, como de la decadencia del Imperio Otomano.
Saladin
Saladin is the greatest hero of the Middle East, a legendary figure admired and revered to this day. This is the first serious biographyin over 20 years and the first ever by a non-western scholar in English. It shows that Saladin's genius was not in warfare but in giving the people of Middle East a spiritual vision.
The Other Exile
The first known inhabitant of St Helena – long before Napoleon – was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country’s minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam, married a Muslim, fought his former countrymen, and was eventually captured – his nose and hands publicly cut off for treachery. Eventually sailing for home, he jumped ship at St. Helena, becoming the island’s first inhabitant, with only a black cockerel for company. News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sent especially for him, Lopes so impressed the King, and the Pope in Rome, that he was granted one wish. He requested his return to St Helena. Based on brand new research by A R Azzam, author of the acclaimed Saladin (Longman, 2007), The Other Exile is at once a historical adventure story and a meditation on solitude. It is a story about redemption in one of the darkest periods in Europe and the tale of the haunting relationship between man and wild nature.
The Young Tennis Player
A simple introduction to the equipment, rules, and techniques of tennis.
Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla
Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 — a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish-American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic melancholy, are powerfully introspective and meditative, revealing an evolution away from his previously ornate, Modernist style. With these magnificent poems, Machado moved toward a simpler, more authentic approach that would later distinguish all of his works. This unabridged edition of Machado's landmark Campos de Castilla is presented in a dual-language format which features an excellent new translation on pages facing the Spanish original. A fully informative introduction and comprehensive notes by the translator are also included.
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio es jugador, aventurero, seductor, cínico y dado a la bravuconería. Sin embargo, con maneras galantes y dulces palabras, es capaz de inspirar los más tiernos sentimientos en el inocente corazón de doña Inés quien, aun desde el más allá, sigue velando por su amado. Esta obra de teatro fue originalmente escrita en verso y la hemos adaptado porque ¡no puede faltar en tu colección de Clásicos juveniles!
La Regenta
Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique of the Church and its frank treatment of sex, La Regenta is a compelling and witty depiction of the complacent and frivolous world of upper-class society.
