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Ironía o Insensatez es una compilación de escritos basados en vivencias, opiniones y sentimientos. Es la historia de cada persona plasmada en una página, incluyendo experiencias vividas por la autora. Muchas de ellas en las cuales nos podemos familiarizar y nos unen en un solo pensamiento, sentir y perspectiva. Como las ilusiones y desamores de la adolescencia, nuestra relación con Dios, caprichos y fantasías de la vida, los deseos del corazón y esperanzas del alma, las diferentes caras del amor, nuestro punto de vista de los acontecimientos que ocurren en el mundo. Las cosas que no...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...

The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him ...

Manuel del Palacio (1831-1906) sobresale como uno de los principales poetas y prosistas satíricos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, en especial en el terreno político. Con Luis Rivera fundó el periódico satírico Gil Blas (1864-1870). Escribió una serie de semblanzas caricaturescas de políticos y artistas, Cabezas y Calabazas (1863). Recogió sus artículos políticos en De Tetuán a Valencia, haciendo noche en Miraflores (1865). Publicó una colección de Cien sonetos políticos (1870). Escribió también leyendas al estilo romántico, influidas por las de José Zorrilla, en Veladas...