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"Cumbres Borrascosas, cuyo título original en inglés es Wuthering Heights, es la única novela escrita por Emily Brontë. Publicada por primera vez en 1847 bajo el seudónimo de Ellis Bell, esta obra maestra de la literatura inglesa ha dejado una huella imborrable. La historia comienza cuando un hombre llamado Lockwood llega a la finca Cumbres Borrascosas para conocer al señor Heathcliff, su casero. El recibimiento es frío y hostil. En la casa también viven Catherine, una hermosa joven, y Hareton Earnshaw, un joven tosco.

I am home, yet it does not feel like home. The chains on my wrists and ankles are gone, but those around my heart tighten. Is the world truly black and white, or is it just my vision failing? Does all food turn to ash, or is it merely my mouth forgetting how to taste? When the crows call, and the moon hangs heavy, does everyone else drown their sorrow in pillows, or am I the only one? Urai is hell. A kingdom of devils. Yet hell is my heaven. My dark devil—through these falling eyes—is my angel. I breathe, but I do not exist. I exist, but I do not live.

In which, a 17-year-old apprentice dealer in rare books is sent from Paris to England by her father, to obtain incunabula and medieval books of devotion - and whatever secrets of political intrigue or finance may come to hand in the process. In the course of her business, though, Minnie meets Harold Grey (Lord John’s elder brother), the newly-widowed (and alarmingly deranged) Duke of Pardloe, and things fall out.

Gerrit van Draak, the fifth Duke of Dulverton, might not love his orderly, boring life, but at least it is one he can manage. And then she comes along. Lady Kathryn Bellamy not only tears down the walls Gerrit has spent decades carefully constructing, she also shatters the bedrock of his existence in the process.

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr. Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr. Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret, and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge? Battling inside Jane are passion and prudence; she struggles to survive the turmoil they cause.

A captivating novel of self-discovery by Agatha Christie, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie, famous for her ingenious crime novels, also wrote about crimes of the heart. Written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Christie’s tales of romantic suspense further...

Dans ce roman, Maupassant reprend des thématiques qui lui sont chères à travers une intrigue où se croisent passions amoureuses et enjeux financiers. Venue de Paris en Auvergne avec son mari William, sur les terres du village d'Enval, suivre un traitement thermal contre une prétendue stérilité, Christiane Andermatt découvre l'amour avec Paul Brétigny. Son mari, banquier, spécule quant à lui sans relâche sur des terrains de la région, construisant une nouvelle ville d'eaux pour faire croître sa fortune.

When a Wild West bandit takes an educated young woman hostage, the sparks that fly between them are more dangerous than bullets—"Don't miss this one!" (Affaire de Coeur, 5 stars). A recent graduate of Wellesley College, Leslie Powers is on her way out to Arizona Territory. All she knows about...

Robert Belford necesita una esposa. Después de la muerte de su hermano mayor, ha heredado el título de conde y debe responsabilizarse de la vida de su madre y sus dos hermanos menores. Obligado a dejar su carrera militar, está dispuesto a llevar una vida ejemplar y para ello necesita una esposa. Encontrar a la candidata ideal hubiera sido imposible, pero el milagro se dio en Belinda Withman. Hermosa y de modales impecables, cumple todos los requisitos que él y su madre exigen. Solo hay unos pequeños inconvenientes: las grandes deudas de juego de su padre y... Livia Withman.

Tristan Shepherd never expected the London Season to throw him back into the path of Caroline Whitby—the spirited girl from his youth who once declared she detested both him and his horses. But when a single careless remark at a glittering ball damages Caroline’s prospects with a promising suitor, she lays the blame squarely at Tristan’s feet. Determined to make amends—and needing a wife himself—Tristan offers marriage. Caroline flatly refuses. Still, with the Season slipping away, they strike an uneasy bargain: he’ll help her find a husband, and she’ll help him secure a bride.

Cuando el laird de los Lamont recibe la orden del rey Jacobo de casar a su hija con un Campbell para poner fin a los años de rivalidad entre ambos clanes, sabe que aceptar significará sacrificar a su familia. Decidido a evitarlo, trama un engaño que podría cambiarlo todo… siempre que nadie descubra la verdad. Pero su plan no tarda en desmoronarse.

Murdo Campbell, conocido como el Campbell sombrío, ha construido su vida alrededor del deber, la lealtad y el acero. Guerrero implacable, rastreador excepcional y hombre de pocas palabras, nunca ha permitido que nada ni nadie altere el orden de su mundo… hasta que una mujer inesperada irrumpe en él. Cuando Murdo encuentra a Mairi, una joven marcada por el miedo y las pérdidas, debería entregarla a las autoridades tal como dictan las normas de los clanes. Pero la determinación, el coraje silencioso y la vulnerabilidad que ella intenta ocultar comienzan a derribar la coraza del guerrero.

Wuthering Heights is a fierce and haunting tale of love, vengeance, and the wild forces that shape the human heart. Set against the storm-lashed moors of northern England, the story follows the doomed and unforgettable bond between Heathcliff, a brooding foundling of mysterious origin, and Catherine Earnshaw, the restless young woman who becomes both his salvation and his torment.

Heather McEntrie sabe lo que dicen de mujeres como ella. Que son un problema. Que son una vergüenza. Que acabarán solas, rodeadas de partituras polvorientas y sueños rotos. Que hablen. Que juzguen. Heather tiene cosas más importantes que hacer que escuchar a mediocres: como conquistar Londres a golpe de talento y mala leche. Todo iba razonablemente bien... hasta que Robert Wilmot, el escritor insufrible con el que lleva media vida peleando, se cruzó en su camino. Otra vez. Y esta vez no bastará un puñetazo para sacarlo de su vida. Ni mil.

Andrew Langford is an honorable man. So it is deeply inconvenient when Sophie Renard, the woman he loved, appears at his door on the very day he’s reminded of a youthful wager that will cost the last unwed man a small fortune. She is beautiful, desperate, and, Andrew believes, married. Sophie came to London for a prestigious mathematics position that she’s worked toward for six years. But after the promised job is withdrawn, she faces humiliating failure unless she can persuade her employer to reconsider. With no one else to turn to, she seeks help from her old friend, Andrew.

They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk amongst us.... In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever.

Told with exceptional grace and read beatifully by Indira Varma, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable...

The Bellamy family has four months before they'll lose the roof over their heads. While Phoebe's older sisters venture out into the world to earn the necessary funds, Phoebe herself stays home to care for her younger siblings and parents. But then she meets Viscount Needham, a wealthy new peer, and everything changes.

After enduring years of her nobleman father's cruelty and abuse, Celestina Lunde is ready to take her own life rather than enter into an arranged marriage with an equally brutal man. But just when she is about to leap through the window of her tower bedroom, a brawny Highland warrior arrives at her home and changes everything.

Beneath Lily Layton’s sweet and charming exterior beats the heart of a vixen - one with shocking and scandalous secrets and desires. But as a genteel lady, she confines her forbidden fantasies, like those about her employer’s devastatingly handsome son, to her diary…until she loses it. Oliver Carlyle, Marquess of Ambrose, has finally found the perfect wife, a woman who will not hide from his dark, carnal cravings. He just needs to figure out who she is.