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If the flame on your dragon went out, would you know what to do? Luckily, the answer can be found right in this book! It's ideal for reading aloud since it combines a mixture of script and print writing.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

John Meade Falkner nació en Wiltshire (Inglaterra) en 1858. Tras graduarse en Oxford, supo compaginar sus eruditas y dispares aficiones, como la música sacra, la demonología, los libros viejos, los violines o los vinos antiguos, con el más lucrativo empleo de tutor de los hijos del poderoso Andrew Noble, destacado directivo de la naviera inglesa Armstrong Mitchell, de la que Falkner llegó a ser presidente. Realizó numerosos viajes comerciales por Europa y Asia, viajes que aprovechó para hacer eruditas investigaciones históricas en Italia o Turquía. Sus obligaciones profesionales no...