ROBERTO ARLT — Me escribe un lector: «Me interesaría muchísimo que Ud. escribiera algunas notas sobre los libros que deberían leer los jóvenes, para que aprendan y se formen un concepto claro, amplio, de la […]
O. HENRY – The window of Miss D’Armande’s room looked out onto Broadway and its theatres. But Lynette D’Armande turned her chair round and sat with her back to Broadway. She was an actress, and […]
OLIVE SCHREINER – A mother sat alone at an open window. Through it came the voices of the children as they played under the acacia-trees, and the breath of the hot afternoon air. In and […]
JAMES JOYCE – The cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to […]
SHERWOOD ANDERSON – My father was a retail druggist in our town, out in Nebraska, which was so much like a thousand other towns I’ve been in since that there’s no use fooling around and […]
OLIVE SCHREINER – Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny “Karroo” bushes; and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle […]
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA – Había una gallina que era idiota. He dicho idiota. Pero era más idiota todavía. Le picaba un mosquito y salía corriendo. Le picaba una avispa y salía corriendo. Le picaba un […]
BALDOMERO LILLO – Con los brazos arremangados y llevando sobre la cabeza un cubo lleno de agua, Rosa atravesaba el espacio libre que había entre las habitaciones y el pequeño huerto, cuya cerca de ramas […]
GIOVANNI VERGA – “Malpelo” se llamaba así porque tenía el pelo rojo, y tenía el pelo rojo porque era un chicuelo granujilla y malo que prometía ser un perfecto bribón. De suerte que todos en […]
FELISBERTO HERNÁNDEZ – (A María Isabel G. de Hernández) I. En uno de los barrios de los suburbios de una gran ciudad, uno de los literatos no tenía asunto. Esto le pasó desde el 24 […]
JOSÉ ASUNCIÓN SILVA – En el cuarto sencillo y triste, cerca de la mesa cubierta de hojas escritas, la sien apoyada en la mano, la mirada fija en las páginas frescas, el poeta satírico leía […]
VIRGINIA WOOLF – In the first place, I want to emphasise the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to […]
VIRGINIA WOOLF – There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson’s Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit […]
EDITH WHARTON – That “diffusion of knowledge” commonly classed with steam-heat and universal suffrage in the category of modern improvements, has incidentally brought about the production of a new vice — the vice of reading. No […]
PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (KOIZUMI YAKUMO) – The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second […]
PATRICK LAFCADIO HEARN (KOIZUMI YAKUMO) – I wish to keep my promise regarding a series of lectures relating to literary life and work, to be given independently of texts or authorities, and to represent, as far […]
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