La tortuga gigante

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Eloisa Cartonera, 2010 - 47 páginas
La tortuga gigante is a tale of a city man who, for medical reasons, lives in the countryside. Despite struggling to find sustenance, he cures and cares for a turtle that later repays the favor by saving his life. Las medias de los flamencos is the story of flamingos with white legs but now have them red. La guerra de los yacarés recounts humans' and alligators' multiple feats in the struggle to maintain reign over their waters. La abeja haragana tells of one bee that is expelled from her hive after being warned many times for her laziness. That night, the bee learns a lesson of hard work and duty after she has to face the night with a snake that lurks at eating her.

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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan storyteller, playwright and poet, born on December 31, 1878 in Salto, Uruguay. He was a teacher of Latin American short stories with vivid, naturalist and modernist prose. He has been compared to Poe, as his stories often portray nature as an enemy of the human being under frightening and horrific traits. The life of Quiroga, marked by tragedy, hunting accidents and suicides, culminated by choice when he drank a glass of cyanide in the Hospital de Clínicas in the city of Buenos Aires, at 58 years of age, after learning that he suffered from stomach cancer. The short stories included in this title belong to his most celebrated book, Cuentos de la selva. Among many other books, he published Los arrecifes de coral, El crimen del otro, El almohadón de plumas, Historia de un amor turbio, Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte, El hombre muerto, and El salvaje.

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