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Damián, un niño solitario y sensible, se queda enganchado en la verja de la finca del Pirata. Se convierte en un hombre lleno de dudas que busca la belleza y el amor. Adolfo, el amigo del alma, rodeado de compañías malas que lo llevan a la oscuridad. Luz áurea, la hija del Pirata, hermosa y extraña, bruja para unos y hada para otros, vive en su finca-fortaleza con salida al mar, por donde arribaba el tráfico de drogas que dio origen a su fortu...

This work narrates the journey of a famous science fiction novelist, Martin Gibson, to one of the most prosperous extraterrestrial colonies, where the most famous scientists are managing to change the appearance of Mars to make it habitable. However, what was supposed to be a pleasure trip soon turns into a complicated web of political and scientific interests that traps Martin and confronts him with an unpleasant evidence: relations between E...

Drawing on a huge number of chronicles of the time and the texts of Lamb himself, Robert Graves, who like him served in the Royal Welsh Rifles, managed with this work to offer the clearest, most equable and exciting explanation of how and why the Americans seceded from the British crown. A historical fresco of North America and England in the late 17th century as only Graves could write.

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Here are collected more than twenty stories of Hesse written in the first decade of the twentieth century, which reveal what will be the great obsessions of the author. Especially interesting are the glimpses that can be seen in some of them of the extraordinary combination of poetic style and human depth, of a natural talent for psychological introspection, and of keen observation of natural spaces.

Ginga was an unforgettable queen in Angola during the 17th century, determined warrior, lucid and cunning ruler, she rebuilt her kingdom several times, commanded armies, negotiated and battled the great powers and other African rulers. She had a fiery and voracious private life and until her final days she was the owner of her destiny. In this novel, Jose Eduardo Agualusa reclaims such an unknown and unforgettable character with the hand of a ...

Although separated for many years, for Daniel Benchimol, journalist and great reader, it is about time to sign the divorce papers. The process overwhelms him and he decides to go on a trip, and will not stop on the way until he reaches a hotel in front of the ocean. In that lost place and due to a surprising set of circumstances, when thinking that nothing was left to discover, his life begins to start again. Benchimol dreams of people he does...

UN ENREDO DESTERNILLANTE... Y MÁS REAL QUE LA VIDA MISMA. Un conocido diputado nacionalista aparece asesinado en extrañas circunstancias en Montjuïc. El crimen desata un esperpéntico torbellino de acontecimientos... que tienen como telón de fondo al conocido por todos procès catalÁn. Policía, justicia y clase política se ven envueltos en un lío como la no hace tanto clausurada plaza de toros de Barcelona: monumental. Un divertido y corrosivo t...

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This volume brings together the published short stories of Charles Dickens published between Christmases 1843 and 1848: Christmas Song, The Bells, The Home Cricket, The Battle of Life and The Bewitched, all of them illustrated by the original illustrators and probably the most brilliant of their time. The illustrations have been restored and colored for this deluxe edition ideal for lovers of Dickens literature and certainly an ideal Christmas...

This wonderful volume brings together three of Carroll's major works, the two dedicated to the amazing adventures of Alice, the only character who submits to logic and reason in a fantasy world, and The Hunt for the Snark, the story in eight episodes of an expedition aimed at capturing a snake-shark hybrid. In addition, this edition incorporates in the two texts of Alice the unsurpassed drawings of John Tenniel, colored by Fritz Kredel and tho...

This edition reunites the two tales of Peter Pan (Peter Pan In The Kensington Gardens and Peter Pan & Wendy) and they are accompanied with illustrations that for both stories created two of the most famous illustrators of all time: Arthur Rackham and Mabel Lucie Attwell. After reading both stories, the reader will discover a new dimension of Peter Pan and Wendy.

Cato y Macro los personajes que ya se han convertido en una leyenda de la novela histórica para millones de lectores, se vuelven a meter en líos, para salvar el Imperio Romano. El emperador Claudio ha fallecido y ahora es Nerón quien lleva las riendas del Imperio. Sin embargo, su hermanastro, Británico, ha reclamado el trono. Una sangrienta lucha de poder está en marcha. Pero Cato ha llamado la atención de algunos grupos rivales que están deci...

Además de recuperar una generación de cronistas que, salvo excepciones, fue arrasada por la guerra civil con sus muertes y exilios, esta antología desmiente que el «nuevo periodismo» -esto es, contar la realidad como una novela- lo inventaran Truman Capote o Günter Wallraff: mucho antes hubo reporteros que se mimetizaron con el microcosmos social que pretendían revelar a sus lectores. Hablamos de un periodismo en un mundo en crisis, el de los ...

Everything is suspicious. No one is safe. And in the ducal palace, everything is regret. Europe is torn apart in war. France is fighting Austria and England, and Venice defends its neutrality, but the voracious French troops of the ambitious General Bonaparte have spread throughout Venice and spread their poison through his agents. Instead of subduing the rebels, the militias hastily assembled by the Venetian foremen have thrown themselves lik...

The Avignon Quintet began is the definitive legacy of Lawrence Durrell. Each of the novels that compose it (Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx) can be read independently, but the five together offers the last stage of what the author defined as his heraldic universe, based on symbolism Buddhist of the five elements that make up the personality of the human being.

Nexo de unión entre "Trópico de Cáncer" y "Trópico de Capricornio", "Primavera negra" es el libro que más a fondo y mejor introduce al lector en el personalísimo mundo literario de Henry Miller, pues en él vemos a la imaginación creativa actuando en todos los niveles. En un subyugante ir y venir de la memoria (de la infancia a la madurez, de Nueva York a París, de la ternura al desengaño más amargo al que el autor se enfrenta con rabia, sarcas...

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Los Navegantes reconstruye los viajes de Fernando de Magallanes, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Andrés de Urdaneta y Miguel López de Legazpi, cuatro personajes que lucharon contra su tiempo y contra las inclemencias de mares desconocidos y traicioneros, que protagonizaron aventuras inolvidables y dolorosos fracasos. Una historia apasionante, por fin, la gran novela sobre nuestros hombres del mar.