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The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
Lockwood published the first novel, Travels and adventures of Little Baron Trump and his wonderful dog Bulger, in 1889, [1] and its sequel, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, in 1893. [2]
Eustace Bright telling the stories to several children, the frontispiece illustration of an 1880 edition . A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he retells several Greek myths.
Lila, a character from a children's book, suddenly gets outside of her paper world, becoming trapped in the real world. She soon figures that Ramón, the boy who used to read the book she was in years ago, is the only one who can save her.
A mother reads to her children in a mid- to late 19th century lithograph by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published.
In 2014, El Rubius published an interactive book full of challenges titled El Libro Troll (English: The Troll Book). [19] The book reached number one in sales in Spain for eight weeks and was a bestseller at the Madrid Book Fair 2014. [31] The Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio deemed it unsuitable for children and teenagers. [32]
¡Que viva la música! (Published in English as: Liveforever [ 1 ] ) is a novel by the Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo , one of his most important works and considered by many observers as a masterpiece of modern Colombian literature.
Throughout his documentary Le Sang des bêtes, for example, Franju reminds the audience just how strange everyday life can be. The opening sequence of the film presents the modern age as a "dream land" in which there is a need for some sort of awakening; Franju's awakening comes through historical knowledge.