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The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

«Juana Cata nunca se casó, así que fue libre, independiente y empresaria en una época en la que eso no era bien visto en una mujer.» Fuera de Oaxaca y, en particular, de su natal Tehuantepec, el nombre de Juana Catarina Romero es poco conocido. Si acaso detona alguna referencia, es como la supuesta "amante zapoteca" del joven Porfirio Díaz. Además de que este hecho nunca ha sido comprobado, se ha convertido en un mito que opaca una vida extraordinaria: la de una mujer de origen humilde, quien en su juventud fue vendedora ambulante de cigarrillos y espía del ejército liberal en la...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...