Thomas Lanier Williams III, mas conocido por el seudonimo Tennessee Williams (Columbus, Misisipi, 26 de marzo de 1911-Nueva York, Nueva York, 25 de febrero de 1983), fue un destacado dramaturgo estadounidense. El nombre Tennessee se lo dieron sus companeros de escuela a causa de su acento sureno y al origen de su familia.1 En 1948 gano el Premio Pulitzer de teatro por Un tranvia llamado Deseo, y en 1955 por La gata sobre el tejado de zinc. Ademas de estas dos obras recibieron el premio de la Critica Teatral de Nueva York: El zoo de cristal (1945) y La noche de la iguana (1961). Los cuentos de...

Se puede afirmar que las obras de Tennessee Williams poseen, en buena medida, informacion autorreferencial para la construccion de los personajes. Los mismos se vinculan entre si mediante las tematicas controversiales a las que apela el autor para efectuar una critica al ser humano contemporaneo, como se plantea en esta obra. "La ruta de New Jersey, a caballo, habia sido dura. Al sur de New Brunswick, los baches eran tan profundos, las piedras y la grava tan abundantes, que los dos hombres se habian visto obligados a avanzar a un trote lento, para evitar que alguno de sus tres valiosos...

William Tennesse ya es conocido por los relatos contenidos en "Mundos posibles." Este famoso escritor ingles nos ofrece nuevas muestras de su ingenio, su humor y su fantasia. El lector descubrira, estupefacto, todos los efectos embriagadores que puede tener el contacto con una cultura extraterrestre profundamente distinta a la nuestra, a consecuencia de lo cual la Humanidad se encuentra en peligro de perder literalmente la cabeza... siendo salvada en el ultimo instante por un hombre de negocios, atento solo a sus porcentajes de ventas. Luego Tenn nos presenta una nueva modalidad de...

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two book stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent...

The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925.

The Editor takes this opportunity to repeat what he has often said before, that he is not the author of the stories in the Fairy Books; that he did not invent them 'out of his own head.' He is accustomed to being asked, by ladies, 'Have you written anything else except the Fairy Books?' He is then obliged to explain that he has NOT written the Fairy Books, but, save these, has written almost everything else, except hymns, sermons, and dramatic works.

ut however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my readers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. ... True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go." P. T. Barnum provides 20 rules for the development of character and for personal success. The advice from P. T. Barnum is simple and ageless. You will find it amazing how more than a century later this book can be both relevant and well written.The book is filled with common sense and wisdom the modern world seems to have forgotten. DON'T MISTAKE YOUR VOCATION, SELECT THE...

David Hume is known for his philosophical writings, but he also wrote on politics, history, and economics. This Book contains 7 economic essays which were first published in Hume's Political Discourses (1752) and republished in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1 (1758, 1777). One essay has been praised by the Nobel-Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, who said in his newspaper column: ..". Hume also helped found economics: his 'Of the Balance of Trade', published 34 years before The Wealth of Nations, was arguably the first example of modern economic reasoning, based on what...