Ficción moderna y contemporanea

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Barcroft Boake’s star blazed briefly and brightly as an Australian bush poet for little more than a year before he took his own life by hanging himself by his stockwhip in 1892 on the shore of Sydney Harbour. Barcroft’s life was touched by romance, adventure and, finally, tragedy. In Where the Dead Men Lie, his story is told as an imaginative work of fiction, to bring the characters to life. Barcroft rode with Charlie McKeahnie, who is reputed to be one of the famed mountain horsemen Banjo Paterson had in mind when he wrote The Man From Snowy River. Barcroft also fell in love with Charlie’s sisters. It has been suggested he killed himself for the love of a McKeahnie girl. After Barcroft left the McKeahnie homestead in 1888, he headed north, seeking excitement and adventure as a stockman and a drover, travelling as far as the Diamantina River in Queensland. Throughout his travels he wrote regularly to his father. Luckily, a number of his original and interesting letters have been preserved and they have been woven into the story. Was it May, or was it Jean McKeahnie that he truly loved? Why did he kill himself, just as he was gaining recognition as a poet? These are the questions this book tries to answer. 

Propped up by vitamins and caffeine, Seattle Supermom Anna Moore thinks she has it all figured out. Three free range, organic-fed kids, a skyrocketing career as creative director at her advertising agency, and a stable marriage to a gaming nerd. But when she returns to work after an extended maternity leave only to discover that she’s been mommy tracked and the health department has shut down her daycare, she loses her grip. In swoops Maria, a seemingly experienced nanny, who enables Anna to go and win back her job. Anna quickly gets swept up into her work; while on the home front, Maria’s meddling antics reach a disastrous crescendo. Soon, every aspect of Anna’s life is going horribly and hilariously wrong and she must fight to redefine her existence, with or without a prescription.

Los Rocavara. De un lejano planeta les han visitado Rasim y Tari, que absolutamente de incógnito, sededican a estudiar a los terrícolas y a cumplir una misión. Érase una vez la familia Rocavara. Puedes pensar, que es una familia que vive en alguna gran ciudad global, que sus miembros vanmotorizados al supermercado, que en su casa tienen televisión y ordenador, que les apasiona el fútbol y que no pueden vivir sin su teléfono móvil. Pues no, Los Rocavara son una familia que vivió hace muchos años en la sabana africana. Caminan sobre sus pies descalzos. Duermen en los árboles, que son sus casas. Viven rodeados de animales, como la elefanta Oreja Rajada, el leopardo Sigilón y elchimpancé Chito. A veces conviven con otras familias, con las cuales pasan de comerse a besos, a darse verdaderos mamporrazos. Estafamilia tiene pocos miembros y por eso siempre se ve obligada a ir migrando, buscando nuevos territorios donde poder comer, beber yvivir en paz. Los Rocavara no viven rodeados de cosas, de hecho, no poseen nada, pero tienen algo muy valioso, no conocen el desamparo. Ellos no lo saben, pero de un lejano planeta les han visitado Rasim y Tari, que absolutamente de incógnito, se dedican a estudiar a los terrícolas y a cumplir una misión.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

« Com que sabia que Bonetmpelli havia estat la gran influència de joventut de Pere Calders, vam publicar La dona dels meus somnis, però aleshores Calders mateix em va dir que la seva novel·la preferida era El desert dels Tàrtars, que jo no havia llegit. Vam seguir la seva recomanació. » Xavier Folch



This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Robert Montefiore graduates from medical school and plunges into the sink-or-swim world of a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. He sinks. As if his fears of inadequacy were insufficient, he receives plenty of external validation in the form of dying patients, critical supervisors and incapacitating fatigue. And then there is his love-life. Robert he has fallen in irrational love at first sight with first-year medical student Maggie, and his efforts to woo her all end in disaster. He must find a way to thrive during this four-year trial by fire or be destroyed in the process. The Education of Dr. Montefiore is set in the fictional Chicago School of Medicine Hospital, a place where heroism and selflessness share the wards with vanity and ineptitude, and where raw trainees struggle to navigate the narrow edge that separates remedy from harm. Hilarious and poignant, this novel explores the themes of self-discovery, the role of institutions and individuals in inspiring young doctors, and the miracles manifest in the functioning of the human body.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This book consists of four parts, and in reverse order those are:? a) the email correspondence between myself and the hacker of my woefully exorbitant $249,999.99 ebook (a.k.a., electronic book) b) the print version of the goods themselves, that is, the object of the cybercrime, in a heavily re-imagined form? c) a preface to introduce the original text of the ebook and the story of how I, the author of the ebook, contacted the cybercriminal in an attempt to elucidate my displeasure while at the same time expressing a paradoxical gratitude that my work was so highly valued a reader would risk imprisonment, a hefty fine or both just to get to read my work, and? d) a Preface to the Preface. I (the author) may be guilty of some degree of tautology in the explication of this book (an artifact which is the partial result of techno-sabotage) and the events surrounding the making, the unmaking and its subsequent re-making, but this is all in the service of the greater requirements of the task at hand, or in this specific case, both of my hands.?

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.