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100 cuentos de Julio Cortázar y Jorge Luis Borges

100 cuentos de Julio Cortázar y Jorge Luis Borges

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The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors by Maria Popova Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare. “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. 10 wonderful books that all children should read The best books for children are neither educational nor moralizing. Rather, they are literary works that suggest that there are other views of human life than shopping and fashion trends; they are those that express an imaginative, unconventional and non-commercial vision of the world, and are essential readings because they define who will be and who will not be a reader for the rest of their life. If, for example, a child is given The Iliad or Don Quixote to read at the age of 12, the most likely result is that the world will lose a reader for good. Both are grueling reads and will only provoke a premature disenchantment with a language and a mythology that they would probably greatly enjoy later on in life. On the contrary, if one gives a child The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Jungle Book at that age, he will find the way to beginning to read with pleasure.

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50 Essential Young Adult Novels Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein At the risk of stating the obvious, Young Adult fiction is hot right now. And I mean really hot. Suzanne Collins’ bestselling Hunger Games Trilogy has captured the imaginations of readers of all ages, male and female, and has been turned into a series of films that has ‘tweens and teens (and their parents) lining up for hours, just as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga before it and just as Veronica Roth’s Divergent series after. And we can’t talk about blockbuster YA series without mentioning the masterpiece that started the current trend – Harry Potter. While the first book of J.K.

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