Al caer el sol

The tin-whistle dream of drunks and vagabonds comes true in a magical novella, the last work of an anti-fascist writer self-exiled to France from his native Silesia. Roth's protagonist, an alcoholic vagrant named Andreas who lives under the bridges of the Seine, is given 200 francs by a stranger.

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

A young Australian travelling for academic purposes in Europe visits a monastery in Spain and is waylaid by an old man selling his produce by the roadside at a nearby war cemetery. He innocently asks about the massive eucalypt trees in the monastery grounds and is then entranced by the old man and the story he tells of their history which weaves together the secret 16th-century exploration of Terra Australis, the Emperor Charles V, the dedication of a botanist, fundamentals of gardening and the wonder of Nature. "I found myself translating a story written by someone I hardly knew, about some...

Esta antología reúne cinco relatos de Henry James dedicados a artistas: "La madona del futuro", "El mentiroso", "Lo auténtico", "La pátina del tiempo" y "El holbein de Beldonald". En ellos, su autor examina con detenimiento, perspicacia y un estilo inimitable la figura del creador, así como el conflicto entre artista y sociedad, que, en sus propias palabras, se contaba entre "la media docena de grandes motivos básicos" de la literatura.