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Alonso Cueto Caballero (born 1954 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist.. His writing career has spanned nearly four decades, during which he has produced dozens of works of fiction, articles and essays.
Winter in Madrid is a spy novel written by C. J. Sansom. The setting is the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in 1940. The main character is a wounded veteran, Harry Brett. He received his wounds during the Dunkirk withdrawal. The book is purposely set in Madrid, where Francisco Franco resided. [1]
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
The novel Don Quixote (/ ˌ d ɒ n k iː ˈ h oʊ t i /; Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [1]) was written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon.
Among Spain's most celebrated “New Novels" of this period, Juan Benet's Volverás a Región (1967), Camilo José Cela's San Camilo, 36 (1969), Miguel Delibes's Cinco horas con Mario (1966), Juan Goytisolo's so called “Trilogy of Treason" consisting of Señas de identidad (1966), Reivindicación del conde Don Julián (1970), and Juan sin ...
The Venezuelan Rómulo Gallegos wrote in 1929 what came to be one of the best known Latin American novels in the twentieth century, Doña Barbara. Doña Barbara is a realist novel describing the conflict between civilization and barbarism in the plainlands of South America, and is a masterpiece of criollismo. The novel became an immediate hit ...
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The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the Quran: 650 >114 [17] [18] Classical Arabic: 15 The Way to Happiness: L. Ron Hubbard: 1980: 114 [19] English ...