World of Books - Find your book here

Aura: A Novel

Aura: A Novel

Carlos Fuentes

This eBook edition of Carlos Fuentes' novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included. Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs.
Dispositio

Dispositio

More editions

Maarten Van Delden. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity. Nashville, Tennessee: vanderbilt University Press, 1998. 262 pp. In this overview of Carlos Fuentes's fiction, literary essays, and political writings from the 1950s to the present, ...
A New Time for Mexico

A New Time for Mexico

Carlos Fuentes

In this stunning collection of essays, first published in Britain in 1997, Carlos Fuentes examines mexico as it faces a new time.
Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone

Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone

Carlos Fuentes

The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and a casualty of her own times and beauty. Carlos Fuentes is the author of "Terra Nostra" and "Old Gringo".
Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz

Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz

Harold Bloom

Carlos Fuentes's The Death of Artemio Cruz features a collection of captivating and informative critical essays that will enhance a reader's understanding of and appreciation for this paramount work of modern Latin American literature.
Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes

Wendy B. Faris

Offers a brief profile of the Mexican novelist, examines his major works, and discusses the structure, themes, and images of Fuentes' fiction
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View

Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View

Preview

Quotations are most frequently from standard, readily available English translations of Fuentes' works. A valuable chronology of the writer's life rounds off the volume.
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Maarten Van Delden

Drawing from the fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America.
Media Log: A Guide to Film, Television, and Radio Programs ...

Media Log: A Guide to Film, Television, and Radio Programs ...

More editions

In this program, the author and his close friend, singer Harry Belafonte, discuss his deep personal relationship with the people of whom he writes. producers: Robert Malesky, Alfredo Cruz program 7 Carlos Fuentes: Beneath the Mask Fuentes ...
Postcolonial concepts of hybridity and identity in Carlos ...

Postcolonial concepts of hybridity and identity in Carlos ...

Antonia Lilie

The purpose of this essay will be a postcolonial approach to the novel, showing Fuentes‘ position in the discourse of postcolonial identities and literatures.
Happy Families

Happy Families

Carlos Fuentes

The stories are punctuated by a chorus, commenting as if in a Greek tragedy, crudely and unsentimentally on the underbelly of modern Mexican life, offering a raw but richly textured glimpse of the inequalities of that society - street ...
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World

The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World

Carlos Fuentes

An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture
Destiny and Desire: A Novel

Destiny and Desire: A Novel

Carlos Fuentes

Mixing ancient mythologies with the sensuousness and avarice and need of the twenty-first century, Destiny and Desire is a monumental achievement from one of the masters of contemporary literature. From the Hardcover edition.
Fuentes

Fuentes

Donald N. Tuten

The Workbook section of the Student Activities Manual provides additional practice for reading, writing, and culture as well as for reinforcement of the grammar and vocabulary topics presented in Fuentes: Conversacin y gramtica.
The Years with Laura Diaz

The Years with Laura Diaz

Carlos Fuentes

“What did you tell them, Harry Jaffe?77 “Harry Jaffe, rest in peace.” They all went back to Cuernavaca. Laura Diaz—in consternation, agitated, perplexed—went to get her belongings from the little house in Tepoztlan. She also gathered up her ...
Comunicar ciencia en México: Tendencias y narrativas

Comunicar ciencia en México: Tendencias y narrativas

Juan Manuel Velázquez Ramírez

... en el tema, los profesores de la UAM Cuajimalpa promovimos un diálogo con nuestros pares del ITESO en octubre de 2007, gracias a la mediación de Raúl Fuentes Navarro, Susana Herrera Lima y el Carlos Enrique Orozco Martínez.
Fuentes: Lectura Y Redaccion

Fuentes: Lectura Y Redaccion

Donald N. Tuten

Fuentes, the successful two volume intermediate Spanish program presents an integrated skills approach to intermediate Spanish that develops both receptive and productive skills simultaneously.
Fuentes: Lectura y redaccion

Fuentes: Lectura y redaccion

Donald N. Tuten

Fuentes, the successful two volume intermediate Spanish program presents an integrated skills approach to intermediate Spanish that develops both receptive and productive skills simultaneously.
de Punho Cerrado

de Punho Cerrado

Carlos Ceia

Carlos Ceia. Ficha técnica: Título: De Punho Cerrado: Ensaios de Hermenêutica Dialéctica da Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea Autor: Carlos Ceia NOTA DO AUTOR Este livro foi publicado em 1997 pelas. 1al edição, Cosmos, Lisboa,  ...
Foreign Policy Theory in Menem's Argentina

Foreign Policy Theory in Menem's Argentina

Carlos Escudé

Carlos Escude explains the rationale for dramatic changes in Argentina's foreign policy following the inauguration of President Carlos Menem in 1989.
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart

Don Carlos and Mary Stuart

Friedrich Schiller

... Schiller, Friedrich, 1759–1805. [Don Carlos. English] Don Carlos and Mary Stuart / Friedrich Schiller ; translated with notes by Hilary Collier Sy-Quia ; adapted in verse drama by Peter Oswald ; with an introduction by Lesley Sharpe. p. cm. 1.
Leadership Theory and the Community College: Applying Theory ...

Leadership Theory and the Community College: Applying Theory ...

Carlos Nevarez

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nevarez, Carlos, 1969– Leadership theory and the community college : applying theory to practice / Carlos Nevarez, J. LukeWood, and Rose Penrose.—First edition. pages cm Includes ...
Além do golpe: versões e controvérsias sobre 1964 e a ...

Além do golpe: versões e controvérsias sobre 1964 e a ...

Carlos Fico

versões e controvérsias sobre 1964 e a ditadura militar Carlos Fico. CIP-Brasil. Catalogação-na-fonte Sindicato Nacional dos Editores de Livros, RJ. Fico, Carlos F468a Alem do golpe: a tomada do poder em 3 1 de março de 1964 e a ...
Wrath of the Gods-Xibalba

Wrath of the Gods-Xibalba

Carlos H. Cantu

Carlos H. Cantu. time cut them in half. Make each bullet count; it is either them, or us!” A shot is fired on the opposite side. “That must be the signal! Do not let them get here!” Cayetano proves to be right. The chiapanecos advance crouching.
Carlos the Impossible

Carlos the Impossible

J. T. K. Belle

When Carlos emerged from the callejon, he stretched lazily under the morning sun, and saw Hernando slumped sideways over a horse's saddle, motionless, dew rising up ... The end comes, not with a flash of the muleta, not at the end of a pic.
The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

Carlos Velázquez

The provocateur and cult sensation Carlos Velazquez has earned comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs, and has been called 'a grand storyteller' (Diario Jornada), 'an icon'(Frente) and 'one of the most ...
Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique

Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique

Paul Fauvet

On 22 November 2000 Carlos Cardoso, arguably the finest of post-independence Mozambican journalists, was assassinated in Maputo while investigating the theft of $14 million from the country's largest bank.
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

Jen Bryant

This picture book biography of William Carlos Williams traces childhood events that lead him to become a doctor and a poet.
Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy ...

Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy ...

Paul Preston

A powerful biography of Spain’s great king, Juan Carlos, by the pre-eminent writer on 20th-century Spanish history.
The Global Art of Soccer

The Global Art of Soccer

Richard Witzig

If most of their players remain healthy, Spain should qualify for the second round and pose a serious threat for the semifinals. Possible lineup: Iker Casillas; Michel Salgado, Carlos Puyol, Pablo Ibanez (Carlos Marchena), Asier del Horno; ...

who called from an unknown number?