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En 1605 Miguel de Cervantes concluía su historia de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha aventurando una posible continuación y abriendo, al mismo tiempo, la puerta a que otros pudiesen cantar «con mejor pluma» las andanzas de su héroe. Lo que no se imaginaba es que, casi diez años después y a la vista de que no salía la esperada segunda parte de su novela, un lector impaciente y tan entusiasta de su libro como hostil a su persona iba a arrebatarle el testigo para sacar de su retiro aldeano a don Quijote y a Sancho.

La faceta cuentística de Enrique Jardiel Poncela es, quizá, una de las menos conocidas, pues fueron sus comedias y sus novelas las que le dieron fama internacional. Sin embargo, el autor fue muy prolífico en este campo y publicó desde bien joven gran número de historias en distintos diarios y revistas humorísticas, que recopiló luego en dos volúmenes: El libro del convaleciente y Exceso de equipaje. Los cuentos de Jardiel son muy vanguardistas y en ellos hace despliegue de gran cantidad de innovaciones literarias en lo referente a planteamiento y construcción, recursos tipográficos, etc.

¿Quién no se ha reído con un chiste de Pepito? Ismael Martí nos invita a recorrer con humor, picardía y mirada crítica el universo de Pepito, Jaimito y sus múltiples encarnaciones latino-hispanas. Este libro reúne los cuentos más divertidos, irreverentes y entrañables del niño más travieso del habla hispana, desde las aulas mexicanas hasta las colas venezolanas, pasando por los buses colombianos, los recreos argentinos y las clases de religión en España.

Damiano Rodetti ha avuto una mattinata complessa. Avrebbe dovuto intervistare la star del cinema francese Isabelle Huppert in un ricco albergo nel centro di Roma, ma l'attrice era in ritardo e lui non riusciva a togliersi dalla testa Lidia, la ragazza che da sempre lo ossessiona e che proprio la notte precedente si è rifatta viva dopo anni. La morte improvvisa di un'amica di famiglia lo costringerà a fare i conti con la morbosa rete di rapporti su cui i suoi genitori hanno fondato la loro esistenza.

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und seiner Genreübergreifenden Virtuosität.

A stay-at-home dad, along with two buddies from his luckless recreational baseball team, band together to solve a potential murder amongst their squad—all while trying to stay out of trouble with their wives and, someday, someday win a game. Batter up! The Bad News Dads are a recreational...

An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post–9/11 America. Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a...

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." —The New York Times The eagerly awaited follow-up to Ladies' Lunch, beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal's final story collection returns with further tales of the old friends...

A LOCKED ROOM. A HIDDEN LIFE. Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. To celebrate his birthday, Abigail hires a grand old house and gathers their friends together for a murder mystery party. As the night goes on, they drink too much and play games. Relationships are forged...

A darkly comic suspense in the vein of Alls Well and Yellowface, Shes a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion. Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who...

The best stories are the ones we didn't know needed to be told. The small, rundown village of Great Diddling is full of stories?author Berit Gardner can feel it. The way the villagers avoid outsiders, the furtive stares and whispers in the presence of newcomers Berit can sense the edge of a...

A waitress masquerading as an influencer and a wildlife photographer are on a collision course with romance?and chaos?in Hate to Fake It to You, a zany modern twist on a screwball comedy classic about figuring out what you really want?by pretending to be someone youre not. Everyone gets a...

Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smellthe spraying. Everyones mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasnt like other people. From the outside...

America’s most hilarious sportsman returns with this collection of insights about youth, the great outdoors, and the philosophy of fileting fish. When bestselling author Patrick McManus looks at a subject, you’re sure to come away with an outrageously new perspective. In “Muldoon in...

The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery by award-winning author Donna Andrews. Aficionados of Murder with Peacocks and Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos will revel in Andrews's trademark dry humor, offbeat characters, and...

Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of...

A short satirical thriller from bestselling author Freida McFadden. My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger...

Dan has accidentally "Noclipped" into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. Hell, forget about leaving, if Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own.