Belén Esteban

El jardín secreto es una novela de Frances Hodgson Burnett publicada por primera vez como libro en 1911, luego de ser serializada en la revista The American Magazine, entre noviembre de 1910 y agosto de 1911. Ha sido adaptada al cine y a la televisión numerosas veces y goza de gran popularidad en todo el ámbito angloamericano. Una enfermedad mata a los padres de Mary y la deja huérfana. Mary es enviada entonces al Reino Unido a vivir con un tío suyo llamado Archibald Craven, viudo y con un hijo muy enfermo, en una lujosa mansión de Yorkshire, en la que viven sumidos en un ambiente...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

Cuando Albert Speer fue condenado por el tribunal de Nuremberg, en 1948, a veinte años de prisión, Hugh Trevor-Roper escribió: «Ahora probablemente tendrá la oportunidad de escribir su autobiografía. Serán las únicas memorias del Tercer Reich que, siendo de gran valor, además invitarán a la lectura.» El libro que hoy presentamos es la crónica apasionada de un hombre que durante doce años estuvo unido a Adolf Hitler por una relación única aunque de distinto signo: como arquitecto remodelador de la ciudad de Berlín, capital del Imperio, como amigo próximo en las tertulias de la ...

This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about The main interest would depend upon what one gets out of it? Therefore I am writing some wise words of great masters which actually played vital rolls in my checkered life I hope my grandkids and/or readers would learn from my knocks in life, and how I overcame my nerve wrecking and dilapidating days of my scuffle with Lady death on more than two occasions. I am thankful to Lady Luck plus my attitude, and character built at childhood. Remember we have two ears and one mouth, use them as such. Guard your tongue,...