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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Tuesday Siesta, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
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Includes essays that explore the nuances of the author’s fictive world. This study guide features an introductory essay by scholar Harold Bloom, notes on the contributors, and reference features such…
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future…
Suresh Ranjan Basak
In the 1920s Forster’s liberal brand of colonialism ended in an abortive symbiosis only accelerating the colonizers’ passage out of India. Anand, in the thirties and onward zeroed in on…
Julio Martinez Lopez
En la creacion de Garcia Marquez los elementos literarios del periodismo y los elementos periodisticos en la literatura son recursos intercambiables. Los diez articulos analizados del autor colombiano en este…
Gloria Jeanne Bodtorf Clark
A Synergy of Styles analyzes Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s approach to fiction and journalism by studying several characteristics inherent in both types of his work. Gloria Jeanne Bodtorf Clark uses Chronicle…
Nelly S. de Gonzalez
His work has generated an enormous amount of scholarship and his writings are part of the curricula taught in most American colleges and universities. This third volume presents a comprehensive…
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Michael Wood
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called ‘Boom’ in contemporary Latin American fiction. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern…
Jacques Joset
Don Nardo
No medicine cures what happiness cannot, states this world-recognized novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. Readers will learn that Garcia Marquez found meaning in his life, by celebrating his culture…
Originalmente publicado en Espaina por Penguin Random House Group Editorial, S.A., Barcelona en 2012 –Copyright page.
Evelyn Guevara Lohmann
Este libro es para explicar, como y quien, fueron Involucrado en la fabricacion de un heroe de la propaganda Che Guevara. Es seguro decir la familia Guevara No era la…
This book is to explain, how and who, were involved in the making of a propaganda hero Che Guevara. It is safe to say the Guevara family, were not the…
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Eyes of a Blue Dog, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
Monica Brown
This picture-book biography of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez ( One Hundred Years of Solitude ) traces the Nobel Prize-winning novelists life from his childhood in Colombia to today, using the imagery…
This collection includes ten articles by different authors that offer readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Among the topics examined are myth, magic, women, Western Imperialism, and the Media…
Based on real events, Marquez writes a very tense novel with magical realistic brushstrokes and first-person flashback techniques. It combines the elements of all the works of Marquez in the…
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis…
A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Melanie Cebrian
El premio Nobel Gabriel Garcia Marquez es uno de los escritores mas destacados de nuestro tiempo. En sus novelas Cien anos de soledad, El general en su laberinto y Noticia…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, considered a classic due to its effective use of…
Edward Waters Hood
Este libro es un estudio completo de la repeticion textual y la intertextualidad en toda la obra narrativa de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Especificamente, analiza la repeticion de argumentos, personajes y…
Part of a series of literary commentaries that are criticisms on Spanish literature in the English language. Each guide provides a resume of the particular text it examines.
While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl…
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Escrita entre 1968 y 1975, el contexto y el estilo de El otono del patriarca son, como siempre en este escritor, el de la asombrosa realidad latinoamericana que Garcia Marquez…
El ano de mis noventa anos quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa anos a lo grande, dandose un regalo…
Gathers examples of the Nobel prize-winning author’s work as a journalist, including early writings, articles from his periods as a foreign correspondent in Europe and in New York, and pieces…
This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the…
Un fascinante recorrido literario a traves de las ficciones que contribuyeron a la construccion del espacio mitico de Cien anos de soledad.
…lo que hay entre La hojarasca y Cien…
In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the…
"La primera novela de Garc?ia M?arquez en diez a~nos"--Jacket.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern…
Esta edicion fue originalmente publicada por Random House Mondadori, S.A., Barcelona, en 1998 –T.p. verso.
Originally published: Barcelona: Plaza & Janaes, 1974.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist depicts the last days of Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months’ voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way…
Two young lovers break up, then reunite years later.
A richly detailed, bittersweet story of two doomed lovers, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction–set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18th-century Columbia.
Este libro excepcional reune la novela corta que le otorga su titulo y otros seis relatos mas, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez…
This is the story of Littin’s escapade, which was a journey to a risky and in many ways unexpected new country-and into his own complicated feelings as an exile.
Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents…