Mario: 2118 books

On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more...

This s a story about a woman who, at age 116, looks to be in her mid-twenties. This might be considered a blessing for some but for this woman, it is causing a great deal of trouble. Her husband leaves her; her daughter marries and moves as far away from her as she can. She asks a renowned reporter to tell her story. The occurrences in this story will haunt you.

It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossible one of the world's great novelists Mario Vargas Llosa...

In this entertaining and insightful essay, Mario Puzo chronicles his rise from struggling writer to overnight success after the publication of The Godfather. With equal parts cynicism and humor, Puzo recounts the book deal and his experiences in Hollywood while writing the screenplay for the...

La autobiografía intelectual del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. «La doctrina liberal ha representado desde sus orígenes las formas más avanzadas de la cultura democrática y lo que más nos ha ido defendiendo de la inextinguible "llamada de la tribu". Este libro...

Providing a behind-the-scenes look at the personalities and events that have shaped the Detroit Tigers’ recent resurgence, readers will meet the players, coaches, and management and share in their moments of greatness, grief, and quirkiness. Beginning in 2002, when author Mario Impemba arrived in...

Celebrado con alboroto o criticado acerbamente, Mario Vaquerizo tiene la insólita virtud de sorprender y no dejar a nadie indiferente; singular, original pero sobre todo muy auténtico y con muchas cosas que decir. En Haciendo majaradas, diciendo tonterías, Vaquerizo toca temas que nos interesan...

¿Sabes lo que es el vaquerizismo? ¿Has oído hablar de esta nueva corriente de pensamiento que no va a dejar indiferente a nadie? El polifacético y siempre controvertido Mario Vaquerizo nos sorprende con su filosofía de vida para el mundo moderno. Una nueva «religión» que...

Delicious, affordable, and fun recipes from the hit ABC daytime television show, which stars Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Carla Hall, Daphne Oz, and Clinton Kelly.

Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated witers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.

The author of this book has authored about 250 stories and articles that have been published in Smashwords. A prospective reader might not know where to begin. This book may serve as a guide to them. The author believes his best stories have been Wife For A Day, Who's Shirley, Remembering the...

Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy,...

Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, and the terrorism of Peru's...

One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists—and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature—Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century...