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Charles Eliot Norton

    Charles Eliot Norton fue un destacado autor, traductor, crítico social y activista liberal. Su dedicación a las artes y los oficios lo convirtió en el principal proponente estadounidense de este movimiento. Ejerció como Profesor de Historia del Arte en Harvard, una cátedra creada específicamente para él, y fue el primer presidente del Instituto Arqueológico de América. Su legado perdura a través de las prestigiosas Conferencias Charles Eliot Norton en Harvard y una parte significativa de su biblioteca legada a la universidad.

    Plain tales from the hills
    La vita nuova
    • Plain tales from the hills

      • 310 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent. His vignettes of life in Brittish India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo-India at work and play, into a barrack-room life, and into the character of Indians themselves.

      Plain tales from the hills2017
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    • Dante's first major work links 31 poems inspired by his love of Beatrice, with a prose narrative that celebrates the subject of love while commenting on the nature of the poet's art.

      La vita nuova2010
      5,0