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Levi Painter Brooks was a nobody before joining the Reapers. All the group asks for in return is unconditional loyalty. That loyalty is put to the test when he is arrested for a crime committed in the name of the club. Melanie has had a hard life. Luckily, she has escaped her hellish existence and has started fresh. She can't seem to stop thinking about the caresses of one particular biker. It all starts so innocently: a lonely man in jail, a few harmless letters...When Painter gets out of jail, Melanie will have to come to grips with that the fact that there is nothing innocent about the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change the course of his life. Now a young man in the Barcelona of the late 1950s, Daniel runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop and enjoys a seemingly fulfilling life with his loving wife and son. Yet the mystery surrounding the death of his mother continues to plague his soul. Just when Daniel believes he is close to solving this enigma, a conspiracy more sinister...

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial James Joyce vivio en Zurich, dedicado por completo a la creacion del Ulises. En 1920 se traslado a Paris, donde termino y publico su obra en 1922. El titulo evoca al protagonista de la Odisea de Homero, cuyo hilo argumental es seguido por Joyce con un sentido ironico y burlesco. Esta nueva odisea esta protagonizada por un hombre de clase media, Leopold Bloom, que tiene que afrontar asuntos problematicos relacionados con la familia, la lglesia y el Estado a lo largo de 24 horas que dura el relato. Uno de los mayores logros de la novela es el monologo interior, ...

Pertenece Echeverria al llamado grupo intelectual de 1837, que sento las bases de la incipiente sociedad argentina. El exito y gran acogida de La cautiva se debe a que es una obra comprometida con el medio social en el que surge y cuya renovacion formal intenta adecuarse a la realidad que describe. El matadero se anticipa en cierto modo a su epoca y desarrolla lineas que seguira despues la literatura argentina. La eleccion audax de un ambiente marginal ignorado por sus contemporaneos contribuyo el exito de la obra.