Lindos desastres

The six stories that make up this book are all set in the islands of the South Pacific. Whether it be on the islands of Samoa, in Tahiti, or in Honolulu, all of these stories feature the development of tensions between the worldview and the lifestyle of the natives and those of the white men, representing an even more essential confrontation: the one between East and West. Maugham masterfully narrates political stories, stories of frustraded economic ambition, of incomplete or unrequited love, all of which share his talent for exposing the most elemental human passions, those which lead men...

Destina Rosethorn - as her name implies - believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. She loses not only her beloved father but also the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan - to go back in time and prevent his death. First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she'll need another magical artifact - the...

Son relatos que tienen como fondo social y físico la ciudad de San Petersburgo, entoces capital del imperio ruso.

«El paisano Aguilar» (1934) forma parte de la serie de novelas de Enrique Amorim sobre la vida en la llanura americana. En esta novela, el autor profundiza en las costumbres y en la psicología de los gauchos y trasciende los convencionalismos del gauchismo montaraz, sin caer en la censura o la apología. Enrique Amorim (1900-1960) fue un escritor uruguayo. Practicó todos los géneros: narrativa, poesía, teatro, ensayo, incluso el guion cinematográfico. En Buenos Aires, forjó amistad con el grupo literario de Boedo, donde conoció a escritores como Aníbal Ponce o Enrique Mández...