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Hypsyphilic
Hypsipile is a partially preserved tragedy of Euripides, over the legend of Queen Hypsipile of Lemnos, daughter of King Thoas.
Books: History
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René
"Get up soon, you desired storms, you must take René into the spaces of another life!" All to love and understand today a work of a great writer, in full text. An animated and illustrated presentation that promotes free reading. Essential knowledge for effective reading: the author and his / her time, the creation of the text, his / her gender, etc.; it opens it clearly on the bottom of the page. Support for better understanding and expression: clearly differentiated reading guides, which facilitate the development of composite comments and the acquisition of methods; a small dictionary of useful words to explain the work. Supplements to go beyond: in-depth analysis, critical judgments, bibliography, etc.; Group of texts on a specific subject or subject related to the work.
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Prometheus in chains
"Prometheus: I made the blind hope inhabit in mortals." b "Esquilo (525-456 BC) According to Greek mythology, it is Prometheus who gives humans the main motivation to live.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Testimonio novelado de una generación destruida por la Primera Guerra Mundial. Remarque sigue a jóvenes soldados alemanes atrapados entre el patriotismo aprendido y la experiencia brutal de las trincheras.
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I Claudius
I, Claudio, is the best-known novel by British writer Robert Graves and one of the great supersales of the 20th century. It is based on the stories of Tacit, Plutarco, and the Lives of the Twelve Cesars.
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Joys and Shadows
En la villa gallega de Pueblanueva, el regreso de Carlos Deza altera el equilibrio entre viejas familias, burguesía industrial y trabajadores. Torrente Ballester construye una amplia crónica de poder, deseo y transformación social en vísperas de la Guerra Civil.
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo, respetado guerrero de una comunidad igbo, ve cómo su mundo familiar y social entra en crisis con la llegada del poder colonial y las misiones cristianas. Chinua Achebe narra desde dentro una cultura compleja sometida a una fractura histórica.
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Moral and political treaties
China always surprises us, when we lie to it, and it is precisely in its greatest exotism that it surprises us most. For example, with this extraordinary philosopher, more moralistic than metaphysical who is Confucius.
The Tin Drum
Oskar Matzerath decide dejar de crecer y observa la historia alemana desde una perspectiva grotesca, musical y feroz. Günter Grass mezcla memoria, culpa y sátira para abordar el ascenso del nazismo y sus consecuencias.
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The Siege and Fall of Troy
In this novel Robert Graves recounts the Iliad to bring unforgettable characters like Agamenon, Paris, Odysseus to young readers.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Desde su lecho de muerte, Artemio Cruz revisa una vida de poder, traición, revolución y ascenso social. Carlos Fuentes compone una novela fragmentaria sobre memoria, corrupción y la historia mexicana del siglo XX.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
La novela sigue una jornada ordinaria de un preso en un campo soviético, donde cada gesto de supervivencia importa. Solzhenitsyn condensó la experiencia del gulag en una narración sobria y devastadora.
Explosion in a Cathedral
The French Revolution reaches the Caribbean with Victor Hugues, a merchant turned emissary of the new order. Esteban and Sofia watch ideals of liberty and equality arrive alongside terror and the guillotine. Alejo Carpentier turns their journey through the Antilles into a sweeping meditation on the promise and violence of revolution.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
It tells the life of Ayla, a Cromañon girl who will end up being adopted by a Neandertal clan after losing her family in an earthquake.
Midnight’s Children
Saleem Sinai nace exactamente en el momento de la independencia de la India y queda unido a otros niños con dones extraordinarios. Rushdie mezcla historia, memoria familiar y realismo mágico para narrar una nación en transformación.
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Red Sorghum
Saga familiar ambientada en Shandong durante la guerra chino-japonesa, entre campos de sorgo, violencia, deseo y resistencia. Mo Yan mezcla historia, mito rural y lirismo brutal.
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In search of unicorn
In 1471, the king of Castilla Enrique IV, El Impotente, sent to Africa a squadron of ballesters to catch a unicorn with which horn seeks to restore its weakened virility.
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The silver pigs (Falco 2)
In Rome, in the year 70 d. C., Marco Didio Falco is a cynical informant of Republican ideas that one day is stuck by a young woman (Sosia Camiliana) involved in a conspiracy to overthrow Vespasian related to the trafficking of silver ingots from Britain.
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Roman Blood (Roma sub Rosa 1)
The year is 80 BC, and the dictator Sulla rules Rome. The young lawyer Cicero is defending Sextus Roscius, a man accused of murdering his own father. Cicero hires Gordianus the Finder to discover the truth of the matter. We are introduced to Gordianus'slave, Bethesda, the mute boy Eco, and historical persons such as the plutocrat Marcus Licinius Crassus, the powerful freedman Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus and Cicero's scribe Marcus Tullius Tyre.
The English Patient
En una villa italiana al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una enfermera cuida a un paciente quemado cuya identidad se reconstruye mediante recuerdos del desierto. Ondaatje entrelaza amor, guerra, mapas y memoria.
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Arms of Nemesis (Roma sub Rosa 2)
It takes place during the Crano camp against the slave revolt of Spartaco in the year 72 BC. C.
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Catilina's Riddle (Roma sub Rosa 3)
It is set in the year 63 a. C., and Cicero is a consul of Rome. Gordiano, who in the past did work for Cicero, has moved to the field of Etruria, where he has inherited a farm from his old aristocratic friend, Lucio Claudio.
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Fortune's favorites
From the year 83 to 69 before Christ, the main events of the history of ancient Rome in a fascinating novelistic mosaic that scrupulously respects the truth of the facts, although narrating them with the amenity of the best of the novels. Many characters appear in the story, but the one with the greatest protagonism is a teenage Julius Caesar who gets rid of his priestly duties to demonstrate to all his extraordinary intelligence and courage, that h
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Guadalquivir
"Guadalquivir" is set in the 13th century Spain, but also in the exotic scenarios of Morocco, the Sahara desert and the East. It is both a love story, an exciting police intrigue and the agile, novel chronicle of the Spanish assault on the Guadalquivir Valley and the ruin of the Almohade empire. All this built with scrupulous historical and environmental fidelity.
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The conjure of the queens
The mourning and pain haunt the return of the aquaeus after the fall of Troy. The wrath of Poseidon falls upon Ajax Oileus; Agamenon dies at the hands of Eghisto and Klitemnestra; Ulysses has to face endless vagrants. And Diomedes, betrayed and hated by his wife, is forced to flee Argos and seek a new homeland for him and his faithful followers in the inhospitable regions of Hesperia.
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Caesar's women
The novel is set for a period of ten years, from 68 to 58 years. C., which Julio Caesar spent mainly in Rome, climbing the political ladder and overcoming his many enemies. It opens with Caesar, returning early from his Quaestor position in Spain, and closes with his historic march to the Galia campaigns.
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The Venus Throw (Roma sub Rosa 4)
In the year 56 a. C., Gordiano is visiting his old friend and teacher, Dion, a diplomat who carries an embassy on behalf of the citizens of Egypt, who wish to file a complaint against his King Ptolemy XII before the Senate of Rome. Dion is afraid that he will be killed by the king's agents, as has been the case with other envoys who preceded him. Gordian can't help you, because he's on a trip. But, on the way back, he finds out he's been killed. Gordian is commissioned by aver
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A Murder on the Appian Way (Roma sub Rosa 5)
This is the fifth in Steven Saylor's "Roma Sub Rosa" series - murder mysteries set in classic Rome just before the fall of the Roman Republic (1st century ECB). Once again, Saylor's sleuth Gordianus the Finder is hit by the rich and infamous of Roman society to solve their personal and political troubles. This time the powerful political Publius Clodius is murdered (53 ECB) on the Appian Way (a major road leading south from Rome), and as riots break out in Rome at the news of his death, t
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A perfect world
The world should be perfect. In a perfect world, Matías, an Iberia aeromozo and sentimental partner of a literature teacher, would have no problem enjoying the same privileges as the other employees of those airlines. But when a climbing lawyer, an unscrupulous journalist and an aggressive director of Iberia cross the path of this young couple, they will make them suffer in their own flesh the imperfections of this petty world of ours.
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Rubicon (Roma sub Rosa 7)
Environmented in the year 49 a. C., when Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, thus fighting civil war in the Roman Republic. At the same time that one of Pompey's favorite cousins has been killed, Pompey and the other Optimats leaders are leaving Rome to gather forces against Caesar. But Pompey forces Gordiano to accept the work of solving the murder. To make sure that Gordiano will act diligently, he takes his son-in-law and makes him join the army of Pompey, while the adopted son of Gordiano, Meton, secretary of Caesar, is part of the other army, who approaches Rome.
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Last Seen in Massilia (Roma sub Rosa 8)
Environmented in the year 49 a. C., the civil war has erupted in the Roman Republic, between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
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The last caton
Under the floor of the Vatican City, locked between codicates in her office of the Secret Archive, sister Ottavia Salina, a paleographer of international prestige, is charged with deciphering the strange tattoos that appear on an Ethiopian's body: seven Greek letters and seven crosses. Three pieces of apparently worthless wood were found next to the body. All suspicions are directed to the fact that relics actually belong to the Vera Cross, the true cross of Christ.
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The Plains of Passage
Ayla and Jondalar will take a horse trip to their places of origin, the course of their adventure will be through large plains beat by the wind in the Europe of the Glacial Age. They will know other tribes, who, for not knowing the domestication of animals and the methods of healing, consider them enigmatic and fearable beings.
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A Mist of Prophecies (Roma sub Rosa 9)
Environmented in the year 48 a. C., the civil war between Caesar and Pompey continues. In Rome, the beautiful and mysterious fortune teller called Casandra is poisoned, and dies in Gordian's arms on the market.
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The house of shadows
In the late autumn of 1380, the wishful Fra Athelstan is back in preparation for the traditional representation of a Christmas mystery. Meanwhile, during a crazy party in a fonda, the bodies of a family of prostitutes are found and John Cranston is charged with the investigation, which, otherwise, is reused to the help of Fray Athelstan. Athellan will have to face a complicated investigation: on the one hand, the emergence of new bodies, and
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Have You Seen Dawn?
Menace stars the sleepy streets of Amethyst, Texas, in claimed mystery writer Steven Saylor's screaming novel of a young woman who goes home for a visit and becomes enmeshed in the search for a missing teen girl. Menace turns to fear when layers of secrets and mistrust are peeled back to reveal a darkness deeper and more tormenting than anything the young visitor could ever have imagined. Duty and love of her wheelchair -bound grandmother compass Rue Dunwitty to travel from her new home in S
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The Judgment of Caesar (Roma sub Rosa 10)
In 48 B.C. the Roman generals Caesar and Pompey are engaged in a battle to rule the world. Now, as Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks of the Nile, Gordianus the Finder - who has brought his dying wife Bethesda to the Nile seeking a cure from its sacred waters - finds himself suddenly at the heart of a series of treacherous and historic events. While Caesar and Cleopatra embark on a legendary romance, Egypt remains raved by the brutal answer between the Queen and her brother Kin
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The Last Kingdom
The Danes have so far launched their most fierce attack on Alfred's kingdom. Uhtred's marriage binds him more to the cause of the Western Saxons, but when his wife and son disappear in the chaos of a Danish invasion, Uhtred is forced to face the greatest of Vikings in a battle by the sea.
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A gladiator dies only once (Roma sub Rosa 11)
Death comes to Rome with nine stories, presented in chronological order, that narrate new and charming cases of known Detective Gordiano el Sabueso during the early years of his professional career. More precisely, between 77 and 63 BC, the last years of the Roman Republic take place.
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The pale horseman
Second book in the history of Uhtred, the lord of Bebbanburg, and his complicated relationship with Alfred the Great, king of Wessex in the ninth century, describing the fateful year in which the Danes captured the kingdom of Alfred and took him as a fugitive to the marshes of Athelney.
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The benevolents
The book is a fictitious autobiography that describes the life of Maximilian Aue, a former SS officer who decades later tells the story of a crucial part of his life: when he was an active member of the forces of the Third Reich. In the novel, Aue accepts his responsibility for his participation in the massacres of Jews, but most of the time he feels more like an observer than a participant
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Africanus, the consul's son
At the end of the fourth century before Christ, Rome was about to be annihilated by the Carthaginian armies in command of Anibal. That was his inexorable destiny until a single man, a young officer of the legions, emerged, who transformed what should have happened into what was finally: the genesis of an empire and a secular civilization in time and history of the world. That child was named after his parent, Publio Cornelio Scipion, who was consul of Rome during the first year of that war. The exploits of the consul's son reached such magnitude that the people granted him a special nickname, an appeal concerning one of the territories he conquered: Africanus.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Las vidas de Ugwu, Olanna, Kainene, Odenigbo y Richard quedan atravesadas por la guerra de Biafra. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie narra amor, lealtad, clase y supervivencia desde múltiples perspectivas.
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The Lords of the North
After having helped Alfred secure Wessex as an independent Saxon kingdom, he returns to the north in an attempt to find his stepsister. Instead, he discovers chaos, civil war and treason in Northumbria. He is on the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return awaits the help of Guthred to capture Dunholm, the lair of the dark lord Viking, Kjartan.
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Rome
She grew closer to Dorso, who treated her always with difference and respect. Pennatus, as Dorso's friend, was often present in their company, but he knew better than to treat her with too much familiarity. He hid his pain and confusion by making wry comments and bitter jokes, and no one noticed that his behavior was any different than before. People did notice a change in Pinaria, and commented on it. Men called her the melancholy Vestal, but they thought her suffering was for their sake and they honored her sadness as a sign of her piety.
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The Triumph of Caesar (Roma sub Rosa 12)
The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion - Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome's legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed by the Senate as Dictator, the city abounds with rumors asserting that Caesar wishes to be made King - the first such that Rome has had in centuries. And that not all of his opposition has been crossed.
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The cursed legions
The cursed legions is the second part of the novel Africanus: the son of the consul, with whom the Spanish author Santiago Posteguillo began his trilogy on the Roman statesman and military Scipion the African winner of Anibal in the battle of Zama.
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The Emperor's Killer
Trajano, the first Hispanic emperor in history, is known mainly for leading the Roman empire to its maximum extent.
The Colour of Milk
England, 1831. Fifteen-year-old Mary has hair the colour of milk and a life of brutal work on her family farm. Sent to care for the vicar’s invalid wife, she learns to read and write. Words open a door for her, but they also compel her to tell a devastating truth in her own unmistakable voice.
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Seven Wonders (Roma sub Rosa 13)
Join Gordianus as he travels to the fabled cities of Greece and Asia Minor, then to Babylon and Egypt. Witness the Olympic Games, take part in exotic festivals, and marvel at the most spectacular constructions ever devoured by mankind - opposing murder, witchcraft, and ghostly hauntings along the way.
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Maximum Circus
Maximum Circus is the history of Trajano and his government, wars and betrayals, unbribed loyalties and impossible love stories.
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Raiders of the Nile (Roma sub Rosa 14)
It is located in the year 88 a. C. The young Gordian lives in Alexandria with his slave Bethesda. When Bethesda disappears, she discovers that she has been kidnapped by bandits, and must take a dangerous trip through the Nile delta.
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Wrath of the Furies (Roma sub Rosa 15)
Year 88 before Christ, the ancient world is at war. In the west, the Italian states rebel against Rome; in the east, Mitridates tries to conquer the Asian provinces.
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The lost legion
Intrigas, battles, two teenage women, foreign languages, Rome, Partia, India, China, two Cesars and an empress are intertwined in the greatest epic account of the ancient world.
The Underground Railroad
Cora escapa de una plantación de Georgia mediante un ferrocarril clandestino convertido literalmente en una red de trenes. Colson Whitehead recorre distintas formas históricas del racismo estadounidense con imaginación y fuerza.
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The Throne of Caesar
Death comes to Rome with nine stories, presented in chronological order, that narrate new and charming cases of known Detective Gordiano el Sabueso during the early years of his professional career. More precisely, between 77 and 63 BC, the last years of the Roman Republic take place.
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La investigación Du Barry
Cuatro años después del robo de las joyas de Madame Du Barry, una serie de asesinatos sacude Versalles. La recién coronada María Antonieta decide investigar en secreto y confía la misión a su modista, Rose Bertin, y a su peluquero, Léonard Autié, un dúo tan brillante como incompatible. Entre conspiraciones cortesanas, humor e intriga, ambos deberán descubrir la verdad antes de que la Corona se vea comprometida.
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Sin descanso para la reina
Mientras Francia se enfrenta a la llamada guerra de las harinas, los disturbios y los intereses políticos amenazan la estabilidad del reino. Al mismo tiempo, un nuevo crimen obliga a Rose y Léonard a emprender otra investigación para proteger a la reina y desenmascarar una peligrosa conspiración.
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La novia era Rose Bertin
Una misteriosa boda celebrada en Versalles desemboca en un asesinato que pone en jaque a la corte. Rose Bertin y Léonard deberán desentrañar un complicado entramado de intereses familiares, rivalidades y secretos mientras intentan evitar que el escándalo alcance a la propia María Antonieta.
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La mujer de la pistola de oro
La aparición de una misteriosa mujer armada desencadena una cadena de asesinatos relacionados con antiguos enemigos de la Corona. Rose y Léonard deberán seguir un rastro lleno de engaños, duelos y conspiraciones que los llevará desde Versalles hasta los ambientes más peligrosos de París.
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La reina se confina
Una misteriosa epidemia obliga a aislar parte de la corte de Versalles. Mientras todos permanecen confinados, se produce un asesinato que deja a los sospechosos atrapados dentro del palacio. Rose y Léonard deberán resolver el caso sin que el pánico termine por apoderarse de la corte.
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El peluquero riza dos veces
Mientras María Antonieta espera un heredero, nuevos crímenes alteran la tranquilidad de Versalles. Léonard se ve implicado más de lo deseable y Rose tendrá que demostrar, una vez más, que la intuición y la inteligencia pueden ser armas mucho más eficaces que la fuerza.
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Las trapacerías de Escarpin
Un personaje tan ingenioso como manipulador, conocido como Escarpin, pone en marcha un elaborado plan que amenaza con sembrar el caos en la corte. Rose y Léonard deberán descubrir quién mueve realmente los hilos antes de que el engaño desemboque en una tragedia.
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Crimen y gato que miente
Las disputas por la sucesión y las intrigas palaciegas coinciden con una nueva serie de asesinatos. Entre testigos poco fiables, un gato aparentemente relacionado con el caso y numerosos sospechosos, Rose y Léonard deberán separar la verdad de las apariencias.
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The magic of silence
The author recounts the life of the romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, intertwining anecdotes of his personal life and his relationship with some public characters such as the mythical Goethe, while carefully describing his paintings and the circumstances in which they have reached the present time (or have been lost). A whole discovery.
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Muerte sobre el hilo
La introducción de la patata como solución para combatir el hambre parece una cuestión agrícola, hasta que una serie de muertes revela que detrás del proyecto se ocultan intereses mucho más oscuros. Rose y Léonard deberán impedir que una nueva conspiración alcance a la reina.
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Peluquero para dramas
La última aventura de Rose Bertin y Léonard Autié comienza cuando el célebre aventurero Cagliostro anuncia a María Antonieta que una de sus amigas más cercanas corre un grave peligro. Los inseparables investigadores deberán enfrentarse a su misión más difícil antes de despedirse definitivamente de los pasillos de Versalles.
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Buckeye
In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment in the aftermath of Allied victory in Europe binds Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt, creating a secret that ripples through two families across the postwar decades. A sweeping, intimate novel about love, loyalty, sacrifice, forgiveness and the long consequences of choices made in a small town.