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Termed the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, Ramona is the story of 3 cultures - Indian, Mexican, and Anglo - locked in combat. The upheaval and injustice are humanized through the romance of a beautiful half-Indian orphan who grow up as the ward of Señora Moreno in privileged surroundings, then falls in love with an Indian and joins him in a life of poverty and tragedy. The Ramona Pageant in Hemet, California, based on this romance, has played each year since 1923, reenacting the transition period between Mexican traditions and the new U.S. and state governments.

En este volumen se recopilan relatos donde lo sobrenatural se erige en protagonista y en los que Violet Hunt da prioridad a personajes femeninos asociados a la Nueva Mujer, ideal feminista de finales del siglo XIX. En «El telegrama» vemos como un amante aguarda ser correspondido por su amada y cuando todo apunta a que así será, se encuentra muy enfermo. En «La boina azul» somos testigos de la historia de Christina Daunet, última descendiente de ilustre abolengo, que ve cómo su casa se va desmoronando.

Isn't it strange that the registering of life's most important moments happens in a sterile municipal office? Everyone's got a story to tell about how they got there. Listen for the first time to this spectacular collection of six funny, quirky and moving plays that start in a Register Office and end in a birth, marriage or death.

Saki's popularity and reputation continue to thrive. This collection of unusual stories from the master storyteller all feature animals.

Keri and Paula are strangers with something rotten in common: the annoying Devlin brothers. Keri is an investor whose expertise is dismissed on the entrepreneurial reality show that shot the boys to fame. Paula is the boys’ accommodating neighbor who has suffered their ingratitude for years. The world is wide open for the Devlins after their overnight success. But for Keri and Paula? For all it’s worth, they’re coming face-to-face with the maddening business of being a woman.