Eduardo Alonso Books

Richolino fue un minino casero, pero vivió fantásticas odiseas. Fue pianista en Nueva Orleans, pintor bohemio en París, espadachín maragato, espía en Casablanca... Y es que incluso en la vida más sedentaria hay al menos siete vidas de ensueño.Según un dicho árabe, Dios creó al gato para que el hombre sepa lo que es sabiduría. Cierto: in cato, veritas. Así, al evocar las hazañas de Richolino (¡ojo! recordar es inventar), Elvira descubre el sentido de la niñez, las peripecias familiares, los amores adolescentes, el arte de hacerse mayor, las inciertas galerías de la personalidad... Estas gaterías tienen mucho de juego y de alegato en favor de la lealtad a uno mismo. Y son un poco nostálgicas, pues las misteriosas pupilas de los gatos fotografían lo que hay de permanente en lo fugaz.

Don Quixote is a masterpiece of world fiction, a brilliant satire on traditional romances and an uproarious comedy and a prose-epic in a new genre for its time. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Don Quixote's mount is an old, bedraggled horse named Rocinante on which he travels through sixteenth-century Spain in search of adventure, dedicating his actions of valour to a simple country girl whom he calls Dulcinea, seeing her as his lady. He takes on spirits, evil enchanters and most famously, of course, giants in the form of windmills.

Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all “ferocious writers, truculent, badly spoken, even foulmouthed.” However provocative and disturbing, Cela’s novels are also flat-out dazzling, their sentences as rigorous as they are riotous, lodging like knives in the reader’s mind. Cela called himself a proponent of “uglyism,” of “nothingism.” But he has the knack, to quote another critic, Américo Castro, of deploying those “nothings and lacks” to construct beauty. The Hive is set over the course of a few days in the Madrid of 1943, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the regime of General Francisco Franco was at its most oppressive. The book includes more than three hundred characters whose comings and goings it tracks to hypnotic effect. Scabrous, scandalous, and profane, The Hive is a virtuosic group portrait of a wounded and sick society.

Who was Anne Frank? Millions have read her diary, but it only covers two years. This illustrated, novelized biography presents her entire brief life. Reading comprehension questions and a lengthy section on Jewish persecution throughout history are included.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.