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Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015 A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. In his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses...

• Segunda entrega del cuarteto Smythe-Smith, una serie tan divertida y chispeante como todas las novelas de Julia Quinn. • Una serie formada por cuatro títulos y ambientada en el universo de Regencia londinense de los Bridgerton (en la que está basada la exitosa serie de Netflix). • Centrada en las cuatro chicas Smythe-Smith, a quienes hemos visto haciendo sufrir a los asistentes con sus pésimas actuaciones musicales, tanto en otras novelas de Julia Quinn como en la serie de Shonda Rimes. A Daniel Smythe-Smith le molesta bastante que lo acusen de adulterio. Y, si además está ebrio, ...

Devlin O'Neill, célebre capitán de la Marina Real británica, vive consumido por el deseo de destruir al conde de Eastleigh, el hombre que asesinó brutalmente a su padre. Tras llevarlo al borde de la ruina, aguarda el momento de asestarle el golpe de gracia. Y su oportunidad se presenta en forma de una impetuosa joven americana, sobrina del conde, que está dispuesta a hacer estallar en llamas su vida fría y calculadora. Nacida y criada en una plantación de tabaco, la huérfana Virginia Hughes ansía sacar a flote Sweet Briar, su amado hogar. Llena de arrojo, se embarca sola rumbo a...

Born November 5, 1884, in London, James Elroy Flecker received his education at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Consular Service in 1908, was posted to Constantinople in 1910, and from 1911 to 1913 Flecker served as vice-consul at Beirut.These appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Switzerland where he died January 3, 1915. Influenced both by his classical education and by his experiences in the Orient, he published five books of poetry, The Bridge of Fire (1908), Thirty-six Poems...