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¿Puede separarse la memoria de la imaginación? ¿No es toda historia individual una forma de historia social? José Ovejero usa esas dos preguntas para construir un mundo a la vez propio y ajeno, autobiografía y ficción, sin que los límites estén siempre claros. 'Mientras estamos muertos'...

Discover the unparalleled talent of New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear in Switching Gears, an extraordinary collection of award-winning and critically acclaimed Western short stories.

Renowned Jewish vocalist and writer Elizabeth Schwartz’s first book of fiction “The Sweet Fragrance of Life & Other Stories” is a meditation on historic European Jewish Culture seen through the lens of a woman’s point of view. As if Sholem Ale­ichem and Angela Carter had a child, The Sweet Fra­grance of Life & Oth­er Hor­ror Sto­ries explores Euro­pean Jew­ish his­to­ry, cul­ture, and real world events through a fem­i­nist, shtetl perspective. This is an eerie collection of new Jewish-themed horror stories from a world that was.

El protagonista de esta espiral de incertidumbre ha resucitado por equivocación una leyenda que acabará por devorarle. El fantasma de un adolescente asesinado treinta años atrás en un remoto cementerio de submarinos se convierte de pronto en el sanguinario paladín de una libertad que nadie...

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

There is a troubled town nestled on the border of Shropshire and Powys. Steeped in folklore, domain of ghosts, it is witch haunted Wendlelow. Pity those who dwell there. Here is a collection of interconnected tales, ghostly, gothic and monstrous, so curl up by the fire, dim the lights, and prepare to be horrified.

Obra maestra de la modernidad y piedra de escándalo en la ex-Yugoeslavia cuando fue publicada en 1976, 'Una tumba para Boris Davidovich' indaga en los mecanismos del fanatismo y la intolerancia. El destino común de los personajes que pueblan sus historias (revolucionarios y agentes secretos...

Bola de Sebo de Guy de Maupassant es un cuento ambientado durante la guerra franco-prusiana. Explora las complejidades de la naturaleza humana y la hipocresía social cuando los pasajeros de un autocar enfrentan dilemas morales y prejuicios sociales.

El relato histórico de Alejo Carpentier El Camino de Santiago narra la historia de un soldado español del siglo XVI, Juan, que emprende una peregrinación a Santiago de Compostela. A partir de Amberes, en el insurgente Flandes, pierde su camino y llega finalmente a Sevilla y América, donde su destino será cumplido.

Jerome Searing, soldado raso y valiente explorador de los federales, tendrá una misión cuyo fin no hubiera podido imaginar. Además de los evidentes méritos narrativos del cuento, el título de Uno de los desaparecidos prefigura el final de su autor, Ambrose Bierce, quien desapareció en México, en 1913, sin dejar rastros.

Esta breve, pero inteligente obra, describe de forma suspicaz el trato mediante cartas de los petersburgueses. Con este relato crítico, el escritor ruso transmite al lector de una forma irónica el funcionamiento burocrático de la importante capital rusa y el carácter de muchos de los ciudadanos de la misma.

Ever worried that your golden years might be filled with moments of boredom? Picture yourself cozying up with stories so good they turn "another quiet evening" into "a walk down memory lane." From the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s to today, each story captures the essence of a different era, celebrating love, friendship, family, and the simple joys that make life beautiful. Whether you're reminiscing about the past or discovering these moments for the first time, this book is the perfect companion for a cozy afternoon.

King William has the crown of the Confessor but he has many enemies both at home and abroad. He has to subdue a land that does not want a Norman yoke upon its shoulders. When Richard fitz Malet is given the manor north of York he finds that it is a poisoned chalice and when the north rises...

Narra la historia de un fértil y apacible valle, localizado en el territorio más inhóspito de los Andes ecuatoriales, donde se asientan unos colonos que pronto han de enfrentarse a una terrible desgracia: todos sus hijos nacen ciegos.

Una de las 100 historias cortas incluidas en El Decameron. Se sitúa en el quinto día y relata los pormenores de un amor no correspondido.

Nine short pieces of fiction constructed around 170 years of North American history and interspersed at intervals by fourteen poems. The first story is a fictional account of the first European to reach the Pacific coast of Canada. Following are fictional pictures of the winners and losers who became builders of North America and thus, eventually, all winners and though they didn’t know it or want it, builders of what exists today.