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Las Mil Y Una Noches: Antologia
Un vengativo sultán decide ajusticiar cada día a una mujer hasta que, llegado el turno de Scherezada, ella se niega a aceptar ese destino atroz. Para aplazar su muerte, resuelve cautivar la atención del rey a lo largo de mil y un noches con historias que en Oriente se han contado durante muchos siglos. En ellas se suceden los palacios que vuelan por arte de magia, genios descomunales encerrados en pequeñas botellas, viajeros que encuentran a su paso una misteriosa ciudad de bronce. Así, con la destreza del mejor cuentista, la joven provoca el asombro, la risa o el temor de sus oyentes.
192 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2014
About the author
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
668 books165 followersVicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.
Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities.
He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs.
He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot José Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He traveled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved to Paris, France at the beginning of World War I.
He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I.
He died in Menton, France at the age of 61.
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928). España.
Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867. Estudió Derecho pero no ejerció esa profesión y se dedicó a la política y la literatura. Con veintiún años se inició en la Masonería el 6 de febrero de 1887 y adoptó el nombre simbólico de Danton en la Logia Unión nº 14 de Valencia y después en la logia Acacia nº 25. Allí recibió el encargo del presidente Raymond Poincaré de escribir esta novela sobre la guerra: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916), que fue un auténtico éxito de ventas en los Estados Unidos. Blasco Ibáñez murió en Menton (Francia) el 28 de enero 1928.
Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities.
He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs.
He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot José Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He traveled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved to Paris, France at the beginning of World War I.
He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I.
He died in Menton, France at the age of 61.
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928). España.
Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867. Estudió Derecho pero no ejerció esa profesión y se dedicó a la política y la literatura. Con veintiún años se inició en la Masonería el 6 de febrero de 1887 y adoptó el nombre simbólico de Danton en la Logia Unión nº 14 de Valencia y después en la logia Acacia nº 25. Allí recibió el encargo del presidente Raymond Poincaré de escribir esta novela sobre la guerra: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916), que fue un auténtico éxito de ventas en los Estados Unidos. Blasco Ibáñez murió en Menton (Francia) el 28 de enero 1928.
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September 16, 2015Lo leí de niña, hace más de veinte años, así que lo he añadido a mis lecturas porque aparte de la la historia de Sherezade y de una sensación dormida de haber disfrutado de las leyendas, apenas lo recuerdo.
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