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E-books. La Biblioteca de Juanjo. El Narrador de Cuentos por Jim Henson: Todos los capítulos (VIDEO) Pensar en El Narrador de Cuentos es regresar en el tiempo, donde nuestra imaginación era un personaje más que se mezclaba con el reparto de actores y marionetas que daban vida a las historias que narraba un viejo de nariz larga y peinado a lo Tina Turner, sentado siempre cerca a su chimenea acompañado de un perro parlante y algo hippie.

El Narrador de Cuentos por Jim Henson: Todos los capítulos (VIDEO)

La serie, estrenada en 1987 era una producción británico-estadounidense, creada y producida por Jim Henson, el mismo genio que creó a Los Muppets. En el Narrador de cuentos o The Storyteller se relataban legendarios cuentos propios del folclore europeo y la tradición de los cuentos de hadas. El protagonista y quién guiaba las historias era el actor John Hurt, acompañado de Brian Hurt, hijo del creador, quién prestaba su voz al perro hablador.

Una de las curiosidades de la serie es la importancia que le daban al número 3, recurrente en toda la serie, aquí algunos ejemplos: El soldado y la muerte – el soldado ayuda a tres mendigos. Primera Temporada: Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools, Hosted by Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003 (Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress) Life-changing little-known books. 20 Books That the World's Most Successful People Read and Recommend. Uk.businessinsider. Oninnovation/flickr While Bill Gates has a schedule that's planned down to the minute, the entrepreneur-turned-billionaire-humanitarian still gobbles up about a book a week.

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Aside from a handful of novels, they're mostly nonfiction books covering his and his foundation's broad range of interests. A lot of them are about transforming systems: how nations can intelligently develop, how to lead an organization, and how social change can fruitfully happen. We went through the past five years of his book criticism to find the ones that he gave glowing reviews and that changed his perspective. 'Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012' by Carol Loomis Penguin Warren Buffett and Gates have a famously epic bromance, what with their recommending books to each other and spearheading philanthropic campaigns together. Gates says that anyone who reads the book cover-to-cover will walk away with two main impressions: Buy it here >> Amazon Buy it here >> amazon.

25 Books Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Other Top CEOs Recommend. What Should I Read Next? Book recommendations from readers like you. The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century - Library Journal list. Bookshelf Porn. Quote by Charles bukowski: “there is a place in the heart that will never b...”

The Rumpus.net. The Los Angeles Review of Books. Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review. Donald Barthelme would’ve been, and should be, eighty-three today.

Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review

It would be an exaggeration to say that I feel the absence of someone whom I never met—someone who died when I was three—but I do wonder, with something more than mere curiosity, what Barthelme would have made of the past twenty-odd years. These are decades I feel we’ve processed less acutely because he wasn’t there to fictionalize them: their surreal political flareups, their new technologies, their various zeitgeists and intellectual fads and dumb advertisements. Part of what I love about Barthelme’s stories is the way they traffic in cultural commentary without losing their intimacy, their humanity. But I’m losing the thread. My point is not to reveal a secret wish that Barthelme was my uncle. I wanted to say something about lists. A zombie advances toward a group of thin blooming daughters and describes, with many motions of his hands and arms, the breakfasts they may expect in a zombie home.

The Lisa Simpson Book Club. Síndrome coleccionista. Moleskine Literario. Titles with full-text online. Descargar el libro. WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog. Search Results.