¿Quién que conozca el amor, no sabe el dolor que provoca el simple hecho de imaginarse lejos de "esa" persona? Y cuantos soñadores se han visto junto a ese amor imposible, que más que risas trae llanto. Bueno, si sabe de lo que hablo, sabrá lo que dicen mis palabras y podrá sentirlas como suyas. Estas son palabras llenas de amor y de sentimientos que sólo pasan cuando uno está inmerso en ese mar de ensueño, que solemos llamar amor. También muchas de mis palabras, mas que dulces gotas de rocío son amargas gotas de llanto, pero supongo que esas también entran en el rango de "amor", porque esa simple palabra, puede llegar a provocar emociones tan contrarias, que muchas veces he llegado a preguntar ¿por qué es una sola?. Pero así como sólo es una palabra la que provoca tales sentimientos, es sólo una persona que provoca la palabra, "amor". He llegado a pensar seriamente que mi corazón le pertenece a un hombre de Marte y he pasado muchas tardes, noches y días, con la cabeza en la luna, sólo pensando en mi amor. Es que es tan difícil de comprender el amor, pero es tan bello aquel misterio. Nunca pensé, que podría volar, pero aún así lo hice, sin saber cuando, me he elevado en el cielo, sólo impulsada por el amor y he pasado tanto tiempo con la cabeza en la luna, siendo sólo impulsada por este, que he confirmado una cosa, puede que lo que siento sea de otro planeta, puede que él también lo sea, pero aún así lo amo y no me importa pasar más tiempo con la cabeza en la luna sólo recordando sus besos. Porque no hay beso más lindo, ni más deseado, que el que se dá con amor de tiernos labios de Marte.

It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality; from Adam Black’s Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational ’Stravaganza (complete with its very own captive angel), to the Astounding Tatterdemalion Air Bazaar. Its inhabitants ranged from Dr. Alimantando, the town’s founder and resident genius, to the Babooshka, a barren grandmother who just wants her own child – grown in a fruit jar; from Rajendra Das, mechanical hobo who has a mystical way with machines to the Gallacelli brothers, identical triplets who fell in love with – and married – the same woman. REVIEWS “Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It’s an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics... Desolation Road pays homage to David Byrne’s Catherine Wheel, to Ray Bradbury’s entire canon and to Jack Vance, blending all these disparate creators in a way that surprises, delights, then surprises and delights again.” – Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) “McDonald’s first novel, it absolutely bowled me over when it came out, and while I have read everything he’s published since, and admire all of it and like most of it, this remains my favourite... some of the most beautiful prose imaginable... If you ever want to demonstrate how different science fiction can be, what an incredible range and sweep of things are published with a little spaceship on the spine, Desolation Road is a shining datapoint, because it isn’t like anything else and yet it is coming from a knowledge of what the genre can do and can be and making something new out of it.” – Jo Walton (Tor.com) “This is the kind of novel I long to find yet seldom do. Desolation Road is a rara avis... Extraordinary and more than that!” – Philip José Farmer

This study offers an introduction to an important branch of Spanish literature—the romance, or ballad. Although a great many of these poems have been translated into English by various authors, they are not generally known nor easily accessible. Collected here for the first time in a single volume is a broad and representative sampling of romances in translation that encompasses historical ballads (including those about Spain's greatest folk hero, el Cid), Moorish ballads, and ballads of chivalry, love, and adventure. For the collection, Shasta M. Bryant has written a perceptive commentary and critique in which he discusses the individual poems and compares the translation with the original; both texts are presented to facilitate comparison. For those who wish to pursue their reading further there is an index of romances that have been translated into English, along with the names of the translators. Although the text has been written with the non-specialist in mind, this book will be equally valuable for students of comparative literature and of medieval Spain.

Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Skill Builders are great tools for keeping children current during the school year or preparing them for the next grade level. A variety of fun and challenging activities provides students with practice and helps introduce basic skills to new learners. This full-color workbook contains appropriate passages and exercises for middle school Spanish language learners. Skill Builders combines entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics to make learning and reviewing fun and effective. The compact 6" x 9" size makes this book perfect for school, at home, or on the go. It features 80 perforated, reproducible pages and an answer key.

Seas quien seas, hagas lo que hagas, vivas donde vivas, cualquiera sea tu creencia, tus intereses, tus proyectos, tus metas y tus sueños... Sin Catarsis la Felicidad es una Quimera. Todos te dicen lo que tienes que hacer, pero pocos te dice CÓMO HACERLO. No hay Magia más Alta, Grande y Verdadera que la que transforma el plomo de tus emociones pútridas en Oro de Sentimientos Verdaderos. Este libro cambiará tu Vida porque hablo de Ti. Te hará descubrir tu cielo y tu infierno, seas obrero, político, maestro, estudiante, banquero, criminal, sacerdote, santo o el mismísimo Jesucristo. Sin CATARSIS CÁTARA, ni Cristos ni Hostias. Las respuestas que hallarás aquí no son teorías. Vas a VIVIR UN EXPERIENCIA INICIÁTICA, sin la cual no existe espiritualidad alguna. Lo comprobarás.