Edited on August 30, 2016Well, I have been chipping away at this as promised below the line and I have finally finished. It helped a lot that on my last trip to Arizona I packed my English language edition of the book. I still read the Spanish language edition but instead of the dictionary I was able to read the translations of the many many poems and I understood it all much better that way. Did I enjoy it? Yes and no. There were plenty of vivid images, and Platero was quite the character. But overall it was depressing, and I found myself fighting off the blues if I read too many pages at one sitting. A classic, yes. A Pulitzer Prize winner, yes again. But a delight that has captured hearts? This is what the back cover of my English edition claims. Perhaps Platero captured other hearts, but mine is still free.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Okay, first I want to say that I am not marking this book DNF. I am just saving it for later. Really!You see, it is simply too much work for me to read the rest of this right now. Jimenez uses words that are so unfamiliar to me that I have spent more time with my Spanish/English dictionary than I have with Platero. That is not a bad thing in itself, but these days I have a lot going on in real life and the need to Hunt and Peck rather than Read is becoming a huge annoyance. I have liked what I have read so far (I am at chapter 21 of 63....see how slowly this is going?!) but I am simply not in a good place mentally to study anymore. I need to be entertained just now, not be in school.So I have created a new bookshelf called Mas Tarde (Later) and I am stabling Platero there for awhile. I will chip away at it now and then, and when I finish I will edit this review and rate the book.

For nearly thirty years, Jeffrey B. Russell's authoritative book has been the one illustrated history to which anyone interested in this subject could turn with confidence. Now, in collaboration with Brooks Alexander, who has himself conducted innovative research in the field, this classic book has been fully revised, with an updated introduction and bibliography, new information throughout, and an extended account of witchcraft from ancient times to the present day.Drawing comparisons between modern sorcery and that of the ancient world, the book shows how the European witch craze in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries developed out of a combination of ancient sorcery and medieval Christian heresy, paganism, folklore, scholastic theology, and inquisitorial trials. Whether the diabolical witchcraft for which men and women went to the stake ever existed is open to question. What matters more is that it was believed to exist by intellectuals and peasants alike.

Argumento El cuento está lleno de alusiones satíricas a los amigos de Dodgson, a la educación inglesa y a temas políticos de la época. El país de las maravillas es fundamentalmente creado a través de juegos de lógica, tan particulares, que la obra ha gozado durante décadas de una popularidad extraordinaria, en los públicos más variados, y ha sido llevada varias veces al cine y la animación. 

Dorian Gray....ahyyyyy Dorian...¿pero qué te ha pasado?.Con lo bonito que es envejecer....las arruguitas...la madurez....los dolores....la gravedad haciendo su trabajo.....Ya nos dirás con quien hiciste el pacto, que me da a mi que a lo mejor no fue tan mala idea. Y quien sabe, a lo mejor nos sale mejor que a ti.....Todo un CLÁSICO de la Literatura Universal, Oscar Wilde, uno de los genios de las letras. .

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