Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

There are three cathedrals which I think will remain chief of the Spanish cathedrals in the remembrance of the traveller, namely the Cathedral at Burgos, the Cathedral at Toledo, and the Cathedral at Seville; and first of these for reasons hitherto of history and art, and now of fiction, will be the Cathedral at Toledo, which the most commanding...

When the ship of Polyanthus, the Saguntine pilot, arrived off the port of his native land, the mariners and fishermen, their vision sharpened by ever watching the distant horizon, had already recognized his saffron-dyed sail and the image of Victory, which, with extended wings, and holding a crown in her right hand, stretched along the prow unti...

The title of this novel in the original, La maja desnuda, ""The Nude Maja,"" is also the name of one of the most famous pictures of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya. The word maja has no exact equivalent in English or in any of the modern languages. Literally, it means ""bedecked,"" ""showy,"" ""gaudily attired,"" ""flashy,"" ""dazzling,...

A MAJORCAN PALACE Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling about the room since eight o'clock in the hope of awakening him. As the light filtering through the transom of a broad win...

Tela editorial. Ejemplar fatigado por el tiempo. Cubiertas deslucidas, manchas de óxido en guardas, cortes y algunas páginas del texto. No conserva la sobrecubierta. 377 pg. Autores Españoles Contemporáneos. 3ª edición. La voluntad de vivir es la única novela de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez que no vio la luz en el momento en que fue creada. Demasiado í...

Precio: SOCIAL - "Los enemigos de la mujer" cierra la trilogía que Vicente Blasco Ibáñez escribió sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial, iniciada con "Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis", y seguida por "Mare Nostrum".

RM60746-V. Madrid, Aguilar de Ediciones, 1949. Piel con dorados y gofrados. 18 x 14,5 cm. 1663 + 1796 +1813 págs. a doble columna. Papel semi biblia. Cinta separadora. Cantos orlados. Los tomos I y III ilustrados con fotografía del autor en blanco y negro y el II con carta autógrafa fechada el 12 de Octubre de 1920 en donde hace referencia a su ...