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One of the most beloved authors in English literature, Jane Austen wrote myriad novels, stories and poems that illustrated her sophisticated sense of irony, humor and biting commentary on the society of Regency England. As the majority of her work was published anonymously, in the custom of female authors at the time, much of her notoriety came about posthumously. In addition to her published works, Austen kept avid personal correspondence with friends and family, particularly her sister, Cassandra. This collection of letters provides an invaluable glimpse into the author's life, which was spent primarily within a close-knit family circle making perceptive observations of human behavior and relationships. Pursuant to the themes of her novels, it is clear that Austen was unimpressed by pomposity and pretention and held a deep adoration for those she loved. These letters, pervaded by her usual charming wit, will be a joy to read for any Jane Austen enthusiast.

Jane Austen (Author), Sara Flores (Narrator)

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Northanger Abbey

Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes. Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style

Jane Austen (Author), Sara Flores (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Debo olvidar que existí: Retrato inédito de Elena Garro

Esta obra explora con maestría periodística la figura de Elena Garro y su destino errante. A partir de una extensa investigación, que incluye entrevistas, correspondencia, archivos históricos, personales y fotográficos hasta hoy desconocidos, Rafael Cabrera sigue las pistas que dejó Garro en sus múltiples y frenéticas huidas, tanto reales como imaginarias. En el centro de la trama aborda el papel que la autora de Los recuerdos del porvenir desempeñó en el Movimiento Estudiantil de 1968. Su postura es clara: afirmar que Elena 'delató' a los intelectuales es insistir en un lugar común y hablar sin conocer su caso. Sin duda, el lector tiene entre las manos una historia fascinante, poco conocida y al mismo tiempo crucial en la vida cultural y política de México. En palabras de su autor: 'Este libro tiene una desventaja: nunca conocí ni entrevisté a Elena Garro. O quizá sea uno de sus atributos: una distancia necesaria para entender a un personaje tan enigmático como contradictorio. Conozco bien los arrebatos que la figura de Elena enciende, el desprecio que escupe sobre su nombre o el afecto que adultera la razón al hablar de ella. He buscado que este reportaje no sea una defensa ni una sentencia de Elena Garro. Ante todo, he querido reconstruir y entender la historia llena de incongruencias, confusiones y silencios de una autora fundamental para la lengua española' Lo que otros autores han opinado sobre Elena Garro: 'La imagen más bella de Elena Garro es la del escritor en contra de la sociedad. Aunque merezca todos los homenajes, yo la prefiero como una escritora maldita y mítica, autora de una obra perdurable, original, distinta' -Emmanuel Carballo-

Rafael Cabrera (Author), Lorena Portillo, Rafael Cabrera, Sara Flores, Yopa Ponce (Narrator)

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