The fine tradition of the Spanish sonnet, developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the subject of Rutherford’s The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet (2016), has been extended and developed during the subsequent centuries. This book presents one hundred of the best sonnets of the eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including sonnets written in the Catalan and Galician languages, together with their translations into modern English sonnets and a...

The prize-winning translation of Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterworkDon Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray, tilting at windmills, fighting with friars, and distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of impenetrab...

The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best and most representative sonnets of that period, together with translations into English sonnets and detailed critical commentaries. Garcilaso de la Vega, Góngora and Quevedo receive particular attention, but other poets such as Aldana, Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz are also well ...

FOBIA FORCEThe heroes of overcoming Phobias!Evra has some many fears and phobias, her life is miserable.She needs heroes.First in the Series - Trypanophobia - the fear of injections.The introduction of Maximillion Mind and Punjab.They help Evra to overcome her fears of injection - but how do they do it?First in the Series - More to come!

Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. And when she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young woman's body and soul. Scandalizing contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885, with its searing critique o...

In writing the following pages it has been my purpose to give a picture of the Troubadours during the twelfth century, the period in which we find them in their prime. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

FOBIA FORCE TO THE RESCUE!Our heroes of overcoming Phobias return.Evra has some many fears and phobias, her life is miserable.She needs heroes.This time it is Nyctophobia - fear of the dark.Maximillion Mind and Punjab have the answers.They help Evra to overcome her fears of the dark - but how do they do it?Sleepy kitten Pickles has a surprise in this, the second book...

Bella - Chronicles of a Karmic DogNew Age Fiction Genre – A Spiritual Adventure in Historical Fiction – stories retold based on the 12 laws of Karma; and illustrated by famous characters and events in humankind in the last 200 years.The first Dog and Man into space. It is a dog legacy, where the dog always plays the silent witness in each story. Many more!A "Forest Grump" type story where the silent dog is the companion and...

Vincere! presents an overview of the counterinsurgency operations carried out by the Italian Royal Army from 1922 to 1941 in Libya and Ethiopia. Based on ten years of study conducted in the Italian archives and on the ground, this volume looks at a period when the Italian Royal Army faced significant new challenges in the conduct of war. Facing new challenges in an atypical theater of war, Italian Royal Army forces learned significant lessons that would shape the conduct of future combat. ...

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Kayvan Novak, Josh Cohen, Alistair Petrie, and Richard Hughes.Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men gro...