El Niño

Al estilo de las tragedias griegas o las obras de Shakespeare, Cecilia Böhl de Faber narra la llegada de la fatalidad a un tranquilo pueblo andaluz. En este primer volumen de «Obras completas de Fernán Caballero» se recoge la novela de costumbres «La familia de Alvareda». La acción transcurre en Dos Hermanas (Andalucía) en 1810 y relata la trágica historia de la familia de Pedro Alvareda, destrozada por los celos y las venganzas. La muerte de un soldado francés a manos del hijo de Pedro es el desencadenante de una serie de desgracias. «Obras completas de Fernán Caballero» es una...

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...

Excerpt from Dona Perfecta: Novela Espanola Contemporanea The two literary genre: in which Spaniards have most excelled are the drama and the novel. Indeed, outside of these two forms, it may be said that no Spaniard has won a literary success of the first order. Thus, in the past six cen turies there have been many Spanish poets of real worth; and yet in the list of the world's supreme poets no Spanish name appears. Among the world's great philosophers Spain has no representative, though she has had thinkers of genuine power. She has had no moralist, or historian, or political writer, or...

Alquimistas tramposos, hadas guerreras, cazadores de vampiros, apariciones milagrosas, espíritus que se comunican desde el más allá y gatos que ayudan a la muerte... Todo eso y más encontrarás en esta colección de cuentos extraños de ciencia ficción y misterio.