Cambridge English Empower Advanced Student's Book

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.

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Borges himself chose the poems for this collection, focusing not on meaning, or theory or autobiography, but simply the intense pleasure at the moment of rereading; in his words, this is a "hedonistic" assortment.

/BRADFORD BARBARA; A/ Straight from the heart of mega-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a dramatic tour de force about unanticipated passions. At 43, interior designer Maggie Sorrell has retreated from her ex-husband and grown children to a small town in Connecticut. With the stirring and completely unexpected new romance with a younger man, she dares to believe in a sweet, impassioned future. Na