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“Si te gustó...”: Los periodistas de Babelia y Cultura de El País recomiendan a los lectores qué libros regalar en 2025

> Si te has propuesto leer más este año, críticos y especialistas en literatura responden a las peticiones de los lectores, aportando antes alguna pista

Leer más en El País

https://elpais.com/babelia/2025-01-11/si-te-gusto-los-periodistas-de-babelia-y-cultura-recomiendan-a-los-lectores-que-libros-regalar-en-2025.html

«Lo que el alma hace por su cuerpo es lo que el artista hace por su pueblo.»

Chilean poet-diplomat & educator Gabriela Mistral died in 1957.

She was the 1st Ibero-American and the 2nd Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Mistral worked as a teacher in several schools and became an important thinker on the role of public education. As a poet, she is one of the most relevant figures in Chilean and Latin American literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral

Gabriela Mistral, Nobel laureate in Literature 1945. Gabriela Mistral is depicted in profile, facing downward in a contemplative pose. Her expression is calm and introspective, reflecting her thoughtful and poetic nature. Her hair is styled neatly, combed back in soft waves, a characteristic look of her later years. She is dressed in dark clothing, likely formal, which adds to the serious and respectful tone of the image.

Finished this absolute gem last night.

I guess I would describe this as a historical fairy tale with lots of adventure and romance.

Emily is a grumpy professor off into the wilds in search of faeries, she doesn't relate well to people and just wants to get on with her work. Her colleague and his research students show up. She is forced to make friends in the community. The adventures begin and she is pulled into the Fae world and her colleague/budding love interest and the community try to save her.

The first few chapters of the book, I didn't think I would enjoy it...and then it absolutely enchanted me and I had to read it all. It was a fun story and I likely will buy the next book in the series, just because I have to know what happens next.

@bookstodon

The cover of the book Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. The cover is a pale yellow with winding leaves, mushrooms and berries on the right and left side of the book, at the bottom of the cover is an open book with pages blowing up. The book title is centred in pink writing, the author name is above that in a dark yellow.

in 1818.

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus first appears anonymously in London.

Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

1818 edition at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445
1831 edition
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324

Title page of first edition of Frankenstein, Volume I. Author Mary Shelley; publisher Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones It includes the following details: Title: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Volume Information: "In Three Volumes." Quotation: A quote from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Volume Number: "VOL. I." Publication Details: Published in London. Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, located at Finsbury Square. Year of Publication: 1818.
Victor Frankenstein becoming disgusted at his creation. Illustration from the frontispiece of the 1831 edition. Steel engraving (993 x 71mm) to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831. The novel was first published in 1818.

HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!

Books which will enter the US public domain:

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Patrick Hamilton, Rope


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