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Bobcat and Other Stories
by Rebecca LeeRebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution of more than one marriage. A woman is hired to find a wife for the one true soulmate she's ever found. In all, Rebecca Lee traverses the terrain of infidelity, obligation, sacrifice, jealousy, and yet finally, optimism. Showing people at their most vulnerable, Lee creates characters so wonderfully flawed, so driven by their desire, so compelled to make sense of their human condition, that it's impossible not to feel for them when their fragile belief in romantic love, domestic bliss, or academic seclusion fails to provide them with the sort of force field they'd expected.
Bobicraft y el secreto submarino (Bobicraft #Volumen 2)
by BobicraftBOBICRAFT tiene una nueva misión...¡hay que salvar el mundo! El Amuleto de la Armonía, el Pico del Orden y la Llave del Todo mantenían el orden , pero ahora han desaparecido y:... ¡ha empezado la cuenta atrás para la destrucción total! Bobicraft y Comandiu tendrán que viajar en el tiempo y el espacio para recuperar los Tres Poderosos, pero no será fácil: por el camino tendrán que superar laberintos encantados, escapar de criaturas malignas y encontrar un tesoro escondido en lo más profundo de la Ciudad Submarina. ¿Conseguirán evitar la catástrofe? ¡ACOMPAÑA A BOBICRAFT Y A COMANDIU EN SU AVENTURA PARA DESCUBRIR EL SECRETO SUBMARINO!
Bobicraft y el tesoro poderoso
by BobicraftBobicraft está a punto de emprender el viaje más épico de su vida... ¡Pero él aún no lo sabe! Corre el rumor de que en un mundo lejano se esconde un tesoro muy especial: tiene el poder de conceder deseos. Parecía una simple leyenda, pero... ¡Bobicraft ha descubierto el mapa que lo llevará hasta él! Para llevar a cabo su misión, Bobi no se imaginaba que tendría que viajar al pasado, superar las pruebas más difíciles y conocer las criaturas más increíbles, como su nuevo amigo Comandiu. Sin embargo, no es el único que quiere encontrar el tesoro... El villano más poderoso de todos los tiempos, un enderman con su enderdragon, quiere hacerse con el poder para dominar el mundo. ¿Conseguirá Bobicraft parar su malvado plan? ¡Únete a Bobicraft y Comandiu y vive con ellos una aventura legendaria!
Bobo and the New Baby
by Rebecca Minhsuan HuangMeet Bobo.Bobo is a dog who likes his life just the way it is: at the center of his beloved parents' attention.But a new baby is about to change everything…In this warmhearted new-sibling book, Bobo proves that dogs are not only man’s best friend, but baby’s best friend, too.
Boca Dreams (2018 Advent Calendar - Warmest Wishes)
by Scudder James JrYou can’t correct the past. Or can you? Stephen’s not proud of who he was back in boarding school—spoiled and a player. Now, at the holiday reunion ten years later, he has a chance to show his former classmates who he really is: out and proud, devoted to helping others, and partnered with Victor. Stephen understands why Victor, who grew up in a poor and abusive household, hates the rich kids at the reunion, but his attitude is ruining everything. Luckily Stephen bumps into Aaron, a former grunge rocker who has also changed. Stephen never forgot their one steamy night together. With the help of three very unusual personifications of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, can Stephen revisit his mistakes and find the happiness that’s eluded him?A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2018 Advent Calendar "Warmest Wishes."
Boca de lobo
by Sergio ChejfecSergio Chejfec construye una narración sinuosa y persistente a la vez, que se desarrolla como una larga escena teatral. Un hombre y una mujer son los protagonistas de esta historia. Ella está en edad de asistir al colegio, pero trabaja en una fábrica. Él es lo suficientemente mayor como para ser su padre, aunque por varios motivos no podría serlo nunca. Lo que hay entre ambos no es un amor prohibido y, aunque cumple con todas las condiciones para serlo, tampoco es clandestino. Es un amor necesario y desesperado. Estos elementos, que podrían prometer una historia de degradaciones morales o incorrecciones políticas, se someten al tono especulativo del protagonista, alguien que no se conmueve ante el significado de sus acciones, hacia las cuales vuelve con nostalgia y con un poco de curiosidad pero nunca con remordimiento. Una vez más, Sergio Chejfec construye una narración sinuosa y persistente a la vez, que se desarrolla como una larga escena teatral. Boca de lobo impacta por la compleja e inocente psicología de los actores y por sus paisajes vacilantes: una ciudad que no es tal, una naturaleza trastornada, y sobre todo el mundo de las relaciones sociales convertido en cruda fábula. La crítica ha dicho... «La originalidad de Boca de lobo se apoya en el extraño efecto producido por una escritura lenta que avanza en direcciones levemente divergentes, retocando con variaciones lo que ya ha contado. Su originalidad llega también del mundo que presenta: inesperada peripecia obrera de la ficción argentina.» Beatriz Sarlo, Clarín
Bocadillo de medianoche
by Terry M. WestVolvió a ver por la ventana. Una joven lo miraba fijamente. Parecía tener unos diez años, ciertamente no podía ser mayor que eso. Su rostro era pálido y sus ojos ojerosos. Calvin saludó y sonrió. Ella se sentó allí, frente a Calvin pero sin devolverle el saludo. Dejó la sonrisa de lado y se volteó. Sus ojos, sin embargo, nuevamente volvieron a mirar a la chica. Ella continuaba mirándolo. Sus ojos ocultaban toda intención. Estaba quieta como estatua. Calvin dejó de mirar a la niña y disimuló. La chica lo estaba asustando y él no podía adaptarse al extraño ambiente que causaba aquella pequeña espectadora. Incluso con comida y un guía para salir de la situación que se aproximaba, Calvin se estremeció de miedo. Pensó en la esposa de Lot, pero de todos modos volvió a mirar. Su cabeza se movió como si movieran dedos invisibles movieran su mentón. La niña ya no estaba sola en su vigilia. Calvin tenía una audiencia macabra ahora, una docena o más de ojos lo observaban a través de la ventana. Calvin notó que en su entrada un extraño montón de adolescentes se cernía sobre la sombría niña. Sus inexpresivos y grises rostros lo observaban en silencio. Brillaban con la luz fluorescente. La multitud parecía el reflejo de una turba. Carecían de color, eran fantasmas atrapados entre la carne fría y sin sangre. Era demasiado para Calvin. El deseo de huir lo abrumó. Ya era hora de despedirse de esa locura.
Bocas del tiempo
by Eduardo GaleanoEs una travesía por los temas más diversos: el amor, la infancia, el agua, la tierra, la palabra, la imagen, la música, el éxodo, el poder, el miedo, la guerra, la indignidad, la indignación, el vuelo... Sus protagonistas aparecen y se desvanecen para seguir viviendo, historia tras historia, en otros personajes que les dan continuidad. Tejidos por los hilos del tiempo, ellos son tiempo que dice: son bocas del tiempo.
Boccaccio Defends Literature
by Brenda Deen SchildgenIn Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccio’s significant contribution to literary history remains underappreciated. The book asserts that Boccaccio refuted the detractors that condemned poetry as immoral, irrational, and even demonic, highlighting instead its aesthetic and cathartic ability to restore equilibrium, provoke thought, and provide solace and entertainment. The book explores how, despite often being dismissed for his morally dubious tales, Boccaccio dedicated himself to defending the legacy of the ancients, endorsing vernacular and secular literature, and cementing the reputations of Dante and Petrarch. It reveals how he forged a wholly new direction for literary prose fiction, driven by his commitment to humanistic studies and admiration for literary achievement. Without moral or spiritual hesitation, Boccaccio asserted that literature – whether pagan or Christian – was an autonomous form of knowledge, a stance he maintained from the 1350s to the end of his life. Contesting the arguments of moralists who sought to ban books, Schildgen demonstrates that Boccaccio advocated for the independence of readers, asserting that they, not writers, bore the responsibility for their responses to literature. Boccaccio Defends Literature thus unveils Boccaccio as a steadfast defender of the enduring relevance of literature.
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature: Ethics and Mischief in the Decameron (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature #120)
by Olivia HolmesThis is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories and saints' lives, and compilations of historical anecdotes. Examining the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents in relation to medieval notions of narrative exemplarity, the study also considers how they intersect with current critical assertions of fiction's power to develop empathy and emotional intelligence. Holmes argues that Boccaccio provides readers with the opportunity to exercise both what the ancients called 'Ethics,' and our contemporaries call 'Theory of Mind.' This account of a vast tradition of tale collections and its provocative analysis of their workings will appeal to scholars of Italian literature and medieval studies, as well as to readers interested in evolutionary understandings of storytelling.
Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature
by Martin EisnerGiovanni Boccaccio played a pivotal role in the extraordinary emergence of the Italian literary tradition in the fourteenth century, not only as author of the Decameron, but also as scribe of Dante, Petrarch and Cavalcanti. Using a single codex written entirely in Boccaccio's hand, Martin Eisner brings together material philology and literary history to reveal the multiple ways Boccaccio authorizes this vernacular literary tradition. Each chapter offers a novel interpretation of Boccaccio as a biographer, storyteller, editor and scribe, who constructs arguments, composes narratives, compiles texts and manipulates material forms to legitimize and advance a vernacular literary canon. Situating these philological activities in the context of Boccaccio's broader reflections on poetry in the Decameron and the Genealogy of the Gentile Gods, the book produces a new portrait of Boccaccio that integrates his vernacular and Latin works, while also providing a new context for understanding his fictions.
Boccaccio's Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal
by Katherine Brown"A remarkably well-informed and truly innovative study of the way Boccaccio reimagined and rewrote Old French fabliaux in his Decameron."—François Rigolot, Princeton University"Theoretically savvy, and yet jargon-free, philologically impeccable and critically acute, this is a book that shows the author’s unflinching dedication to the highest standards of scholarship."—Simone Marchesi, author of Dante and Augustine"Brown’s attention to codicological contexts coupled with persuasive new interpretations of some of the fabliaux and Decameron stories make this book a pleasure to read for medievalist veterans and novices alike."—Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, author of Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417Short works known for their humor and ribaldry, the fabliaux were comic or satirical tales told by wandering minstrels in medieval France. Although the fabliaux are widely acknowledged as inspiring Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, the Decameron, this theory has never been substantiated beyond perceived commonalities in length and theme. This new and provocative interpretation examines the formal similarities between the Decameron’s tales of wit, wisdom, and practical jokes and the popular thirteenth-century fabliaux.Katherine Brown examines these works through a prism of reversal and chiasmus to show that Boccaccio was not only inspired by the content of the fabliaux but also by their fundamental design--where a passage of truth could be read as a lie or a tale of life as a tale of death. Brown reveals close resemblances in rhetoric, literary models, and narrative structure to demonstrate how the Old French manuscripts of the fabliaux were adapted in the organization of the Decameron.Identifying specific examples of fabliaux transformed by Boccaccio for his classic Decameron, Brown shows how Boccaccio refashioned borrowed literary themes and devices, playing with endless possibilities of literary creation through manipulations of his model texts.Katherine A. Brown is a specialist of medieval French and Italian literature.
Boccaccio's Naked Muse
by Tobias Foster GittesGiovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented with such a wide variety of genres that critics have tended to focus more on the differences among his works than on their underlying similarities. However, a more comprehensive examination of his corpus reveals that concealed beneath this striking diversity of subject and genre there is a coherent mythology, a virtual catalogue of innovative myths designed to more accurately reflect his cultural experience and better address the needs of his age. Exploring the most significant of these myths, Boccaccio's Naked Muse presents a writer who cast himself as the apostle of a new humanistic faith, one that would honour God by exalting his creation. Tobias Foster Gittes argues that Boccaccio did not simply reproduce Golden Age schemes in his works. Rather, he subtly altered and adapted them in order to produce a model of human beatitude more suited to his conviction that cultural achievement and human dignity are indissolubly linked. Gittes critiques common conceptions of Boccaccio's passivity, or his readiness to speak dismissively of his own work and to cast himself as a victim of vicious critics. Instead, Gittes shows that Boccaccio deliberately assumed this posture of passivity to align himself with a series of martyrs who, like him, had willingly suffered torments in the interest of cultural advancement. By venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropological material, Boccaccio's Naked Muse offers fresh insights on this hugely significant literary figure and his lifelong campaign to transform mythological traditions into a gift for all humanity.
Boccaccio: A Biography
by Marco SantagataA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Boccaccio (1313–75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of humanism, literature, and poetry. In this book, Dante’s award-winning biographer, Marco Santagata, takes up the moving life and legacy of Boccaccio—whose unflinching story of a pandemic-era community (the Decameron) created new possibilities for vernacular Italian prose. This landmark biography sheds new light on Boccaccio’s life—his family, friends, and foes, his aspirations, fears, and frustrations—and it shows how he was affected by transformations in Italian society. It also charts the influences that shaped Boccaccio’s understanding of literature: what kinds of stories it could tell and what kinds of characters it could depict; and, perhaps most importantly, what role art could play in a changing world. An insightful portrait of one of literature’s most important figures, this book promises to be the definitive biography of Boccaccio for many years to come.
Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
by Victoria Kirkham, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Levarie SmarrLong celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent. This collection of essays presents Boccaccio’s life and creative output in its encyclopedic diversity. Exploring a variety of genres, Latin as well as Italian, it provides short descriptions of all his works, situates them in his oeuvre, and features critical expositions of their most salient features and innovations. Designed for readers at all levels, it will appeal to scholars of literature, medieval and Renaissance studies, humanism and the classical tradition; as well as European historians, art historians, and students of material culture and the history of the book. Anchored by an introduction and chronology, this volume contains contributions by prominent Boccaccio scholars in the United States, as well as essays by contributors from France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The year 2013, Boccaccio’s seven-hundredth birthday, will be an important one for the study of his work and will see an increase in academic interest in reassessing his legacy.
Boccaccio’s Decameron And The Ciceronian Renaissance
by Michaela Paasche Grudin Robert GrudinBoccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
Boccaccio’s Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Elsa FilosaBest known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political, and social turbulence of Florence at this time, as well as the major players in literary and political circles, to understand the complex ways they emerged in Boccaccio’s writing. Based on extensive archival research and close reading of Boccaccio’s works, the book aims to recover the dynamics of the Florentine conspiracy of 1360 and how this event affected Boccaccio’s writing, arguing that his works reveal clear references to this episode when read in light of the reconstructed historical context. In this rich and textured picture of the man in his time, Elsa Filosa documents a microhistory of connections and interconnections and offers new, more political and historically imbedded readings of Boccaccio’s seminal works.
Boceto
by Didi OviattCuando una chica local llamada Misty es encontrada muerta en un búnker subterráneo, el pueblo se ve envuelto en un torbellino de pánico y especulación. Los tiempos son difíciles, pero la comunidad espaciada de granjeros se une como una, tratando de descubrir quién es el culpable. Lanzados en medio del caos está un grupo de adolescentes: alborotadores locales, pero con buen corazón. Aunque son inocentes, los agentes de la ley locales creen lo contrario y el verdadero asesino acecha demasiado cerca como para sentirse cómodos. ¿Podrán los cuatro descubrir la verdad antes de que uno de ellos pague el precio de la muerte de Misty?
Bochica: A Novel
by Carolina Flórez-CerchiaroA real-life Latin American haunted mansion. A murky labyrinth of family secrets. A young, aristocratic woman desperate to escape her past. This haunting debut gothic horror novel is perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and The Shining.In 1923 Soacha, Colombia, La Casona—an opulent mansion perched above the legendary Salto del Tequendama waterfall—was once home to Antonia and her family, who settle in despite their constant nightmares and the house&’s malevolent spirit. But tragedy strikes when Antonia&’s mother takes a fatal fall into El Salto and her father, consumed by grief, attempts to burn the house down with Antonia still inside. Three years later, haunted by disturbing dreams and cryptic journal entries from her late mother, Antonia is drawn back to her childhood home when it is converted into a luxurious hotel. As Antonia confronts her fragmented memories and the dark history of the estate, she wrestles with unsettling questions she can no longer ignore: Was her mother&’s death by her own hands, or was it by someone else&’s? In a riveting quest for answers, Antonia must navigate the shadows of La Casona, unearthing its darkest secrets and confronting a legacy that threatens to swallow her whole.
Bod XXIII: Indexes to the Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts with Addenda, Corrigenda, List of Watermarks, and Related Bodleian
by Tatsuo TokooGarland's magnificent facsimile series of the manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ( The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts , 22 volumes, 1986-1997) is now made complete by the publication of its Index-volume. Volume XXIII provides the key to the contents of the Shelleyan notebooks and papers in all their complexity: poems, prose, translations, fragments, calculations, drawing and doodles, addresses and other miscellaneous jottings. The accumulated findings provide a treasure-trove of information about the Shelley's lives: their writings and readings, and echoes of classical and later authors; the people they met, corresponded with, rented houses from, or saw perform; the towns they visited, the very houses in which they lived, the lakes and rivers they sailed and the mountains they climbed. The intellectual and physical data of these manuscripts will help open new vistas for students of their lives, thought and creative writing.
Boda en el delta
by Eudora WeltyEn septiembre de 1923, la pequeña Laura McRaven viaja en tren hacia la plantación familiar en el corazón del delta del Mississippi. Allí la acogen los Fairchild, sus fascinantes y asombrosos parientes. Se han reunido todos para la boda de Dabney con el capataz Troy Flavin. Los sucesos cotidianos de esta familia sureña -excéntrica, orgullosa, cariñosa y peleadora- son descritos con viveza mientras el gran día se acerca... "Desde hace muchos años la lectura de Eudora Welty me produce una fascinación próxima al delirio." Sergio Pitol
Boda imposible
by Sharon Kendrick Luis PugniEra una aventura tan secreta como prohibida... Habiendo pasado su infancia en casas de acogida, Ashley Jones no tenía a nadie y necesitaba desesperadamente aquel nuevo puesto de trabajo como secretaria de un escritor. Pero se quedó impresionada al llegar a la aislada mansión Blackwood y, sobre todo, al conocer al formidable Jack Marchant. A pesar de sus inseguridades, el atormentado Jack Marchant le robó el corazón de inmediato. No sabía qué secretos escondía aquel hombre tan huraño, pero un beso se convirtió en una tórrida aventura...
Bodacious Bo The Pound Prince: The Pound Prince
by Pat BeckerCrossbred between English and German Shorthaired pointers, precocious puppy Bodacious Bo appears destined for fame in the world of fieldtrial champions. But misfortune strikes, pushing young Bo into a harsh world far different from the life he had been groomed for. He finds himself in the unforgiving world of nature where his instinctive skills as a sporting dog will be used for survival. Fate returns him to the complicated world of people, where he searches for a "forever home" and to fulfill his destiny as a champion in the world of sporting dogs. 'A captivating read for all dog lovers...a bittersweet tale of adventure, loss and love. The illustrations are charming!' - Marilyn King, Publisher TulsaPets Magazine & OKC Pets Magazine Tulsa, Oklahoma
Bodas de odio
by Florencia BonelliUna historia de pasión e intriga en la época de Juan Manuel de Rosas. En 1847, don Juan Manuel de Rosas gobierna la Confederación Argentina desde Buenos Aires con mano férrea. Algunas provincias se alzan en su contra y forjan una alianza con el fin de derrocarlo. En esa época de conflictos sangrientos, lealtades e intrigas, la joven Fiona Malone sólo espera enamorarse, como lo ha hecho su amiga Camila O'Gorman. Pero un apuesto y enigmático hombre, don Juan Cruz de Silva, perteneciente al círculo íntimo de Rosas, se cruzará en su camino para desbaratar sus planes. Fiona Malone pronto se verá atrapada en un mundo de odio, pasión, intrigas y peligros que rodean a un hombre de la talla de Juan Cruz de Silva.
Bodas de sangre | Yerma (Teatro completo #3)
by Federico García LorcaBodas de sangre | Yerma es el sexto volumen de la Biblioteca Federico García Lorca y el tercero de los que reúnen su «Teatro completo». En este volumen se ofrecen al lector clásicos lorquianos como Bodas de sangre y Yerma. Asimismo, se incluyen conferencias y charlas ofrecidas por el poeta en torno a sus textos, lo que permite una aproximación aún más personal a su obra. La edición y los prólogos, a cargo de Miguel García-Posada, permiten al lector acercarse a la complejidad de su obra y disfrutar, a lo largo de los siete volúmenes que componen esta Biblioteca Federico García Lorca, de uno de los autores españoles más relevantes del siglo XX. «Una de las finalidades que persigo con mi teatro es precisamente aspaventar y aterrar un poco. Estoy seguro y contento de escandalizar. Quiero provocar revulsivos, a ver si se vomita de una vez todo lo malo del teatro actual.»Federico García Lorca --------------------------------------------------------------------------BIBLIOTECA FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Poesía competa:1. Libro de poemas | Primeras canciones | Canciones2. Romancero gitano | Poema del cante jondo3. Poeta en Nueva York | Sonetos Teatro completo:4. La zapatera prodigiosa | Mariana Pineda5. El público | Así que pasen cinco años6. Bodas de sangre | Yerma7. La casa de Bernarda Alba | Doña Rosita la soltera--------------------------------------------------------------------------