Author: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Educational Materials Catalog
Author: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill
Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
Mad Day Out
Author: Stephen Goldblatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615402284
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615402284
Category : Rock musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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Nacha Regules
Author: Manuel Gálvez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ballads old and new
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
England and the English
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Hero
Author: Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926
Author: Christine Arkinstall
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442647655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Explores the contributions of three female free-thinkers to the development of feminist consciousness and democracy, examining their lives and works to discover their contributions to the Generation of 1898 in Spain.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442647655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Explores the contributions of three female free-thinkers to the development of feminist consciousness and democracy, examining their lives and works to discover their contributions to the Generation of 1898 in Spain.
Sweet Suffering
Author: Natalie Shainess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671546359
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671546359
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Scared to Death
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406381726
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This chilling collection of ten nightmarish and fiendishly funny short stories is a perfect read for fearless children. From a train journey straight to hell, out of control robots with a murderous streak and even a television show where death is the penalty - these terrifying tales display the dazzling wit and wicked humour of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz, and are guaranteed to make your blood curdle and your spine tingle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406381726
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This chilling collection of ten nightmarish and fiendishly funny short stories is a perfect read for fearless children. From a train journey straight to hell, out of control robots with a murderous streak and even a television show where death is the penalty - these terrifying tales display the dazzling wit and wicked humour of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz, and are guaranteed to make your blood curdle and your spine tingle.