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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...

How would you describe the every day life of little girls throughout history? What did they aspire to do? What were their greatest worries? This book focuses on 33 girls that have resided on every continent, in different cultures and ages. Every one of these girls has tried to understand the world around them and dreamt of a better future. This book transcends borders and time to discover what all of these little girls have had in common, despite their varying circumstances.

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos puede ser calificado de libro de arte, ya que pretende exponer las actividades de patrocinio y mecenazgo del rey consorte Francisco de Asís de Borbón (1822-1902) durante sus veintidós años de reinado (1846-1868), en arquitectura, pintura, escultura y artes suntuarias. El lector quedará sorprendido por el elevado número de artistas que tuvieron vinculación con el rey consorte. No obstante, en ocasiones será inevitable, para una mejor comprensión del contexto en el que nos movemos, hacer alusión a acontecimientos de índole política, incluso...

"Autobiografía" de Rubén Darío de la Editorial Good Press. Good Press publica una gran variedad de títulos que abarca todos los géneros. Van desde los títulos clásicos famosos, novelas, textos documentales y crónicas de la vida real, hasta temas ignorados o por ser descubiertos de la literatura universal. Editorial Good Press divulga libros que son una lectura imprescindible. Cada publicación de Good Press ha sido corregida y formateada al detalle, para elevar en gran medida su facilidad de lectura en todos los equipos y programas de lectura electrónica. Nuestra meta es la...