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El Obispo Leproso
Gabriel Francisco Miro Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miro was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesus" in The Leper Bishop. Miro studied Law, first a the University of Valencia, then at Granada, from which he graduated in 1900. He married in 1901, at the age of 22, and in that same year published his first novel, La mujer de Ojeda. The Leper Bishop was published in December 1926, when Miro was a grandfather, and he died not long afterwards, in May 1930, of peritonitis. The Leper Bishop (El obispo leproso) follows the story (begun in Our Father San Daniel) of a boy, Pablo, who is sent to a Jesuit school - a place where an extremist version of Catholicism is inflicted on its pupils. The novel portrays the struggle between innocence and evil, which, by the end of the book, is tempered by understanding. Miro has traditionally been seen as a writer difficult or impossible to translate, with very few of his works available in English. It is hoped that this edition will bring this lyrical writer's work to a wider audience.
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide a selection of critical excerpts on the works of thirty authors who lived between 1900 and 1960, each including a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and a bibliographical citation.
The Borders Families
Michael Borders of Fincastle Co., Virginia married Mary Ann Hopton, the daughter of John Hopton and the sister of Stephen Hopton. They were the parents of seven children: Esther Graham, Isaac Borders, John Borders, Rachel Hixon, Stephen Borders, Phebe Borders, Ruth Borders and Maryan Click, all listed in Michael's 1804 will in Jackson Co., Georgia. Family members were living later in Greene Co., Tennessee. By 1871, family members were living in Bosque Co., Texas and Augustine McDowell Borders married Sarah Francis Jordan (b.1850 in Clark Co., Arkansas), the daughter of Elijah N. Jordan and Frances Fagan (b.1830 GA). Several generations of descendants are given.
Miro: The Leper Bishop
Gabriel Francisco Miró Ferrer was born on July 28th 1879, in Alicante on the Costa Blanca. Brought up in the Castilian-speaking Alicante, Miró was sent away to school in nearby Orihela, aged eight. The Jesuit Colegio de Santo Domingo would become the "Jesús" in The Leper Bishop .
Ballpoint
The triumphs and the trials of the men who invented the modern ballpoint pen as they battled corporate greed, dark eras--and each other. László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow Hungarian, Andor Goy, also played a vital role in the pen's development--and that, in a tragic twist of shared fate, business pressures and politics ultimately deprived both men of their rights to the ballpoint pen. Taking us from Hitler's Europe in 1938, to Argentina, where Bíró settled, and to Communist-era Hungary, where Goy lived out his life, Ballpoint is a painstakingly researched, absorbing narrative that reads simultaneously like a work of history and a novel.
