Historias De Fantasmas

Es una obra satírica sobre un personaje pintoresco: sus venturas y desventuras, su vida y su muerte, todo lo cual transcurre a finales de la dominación española en México. Muestra el folclore y las tradiciones mexicanas, las picardías de este pintoresco personaje, y el apogeo colonial mexicano.

Este ebook presenta "El libro de las mil noches y una noche", con un índice dinámico y detallado. Se trata de una recopilación de cuentos y leyendas de origen hindú, árabe y persa, de los cuales no existe un texto definitivo, sino múltiples versiones. La gran mayoría de las historias son de origen desconocido pero se reconocen en ellas elementos árabes, persas, indios, chinos, hebreos, todos mezclados y aglomerados. Las historias son de historias de amores felices y de amores desgraciados, de mujeres dulces y de mujeres fatales, de hábiles comerciantes y audaces viajeros, de incautos ...

From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom. Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated from her mother without a chance to say goodbye. Bright, imaginative and well aware of everything she risks, Moinette at once begins to prepare for an opportunity to escape. Inspired by a true story, A Million Nightingales portrays Moinette's experience-and the treacherous world she must...

This novel lays bare the customs and conditions most young girls face in traditional African society south of the Sahara, while in transition from adolescence to womanhood. The priority of parents is for marriage, which produces pressure on both mother and daughter. In this story, Amina, the mother of Sadia, faces the odds of traditional settings to meet the expected standard in marriage. Dankantata is the rebellious suitor to Sadia, and against wisdom and logic, is a hard-core traditionalist. He will not bow down for a minute against his ego, even when it is in his own self-interest to...