James Agee

Las cartas que aparecen en este libro son, sobre todas las cosas, un monumento a la camaradería y la amistad sincera y duradera. Luego de perder a su padre a los seis años, James Agee se mudó con su madre a Knoxville, Tennesse, donde se matriculó en un internado episcopaliano. Allí trabó amistad con uno de sus maestros, el pastor James Harold Flye, con quien mantendría una larga e íntima relación epistolar desde los quince años hasta el...

Decades after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying....

A hard-drinking river trader and a prim missionary become unlikely travel companions on a river expedition in the war-torn African jungle in 1914 as they battle nature, a German gunboat, and each other.

Starring Academy Award® winners* HUMPHREY BOGART and KATHARINE HEPBURN, The African Queen tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause - and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between Bogie’s river rat Charlie Allnut and Hepburn’s missionary Rose Sayer, as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war-torn East Africa. Directed by Academy Award® winner**...