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Contemporáneo de Balzac, Dickens y Dostoievski, testigo privilegiado de la invención de la fotografía, el teléfono, la bombilla eléctrica, los rayos X y el cinematógrafo, Julio Verne da forma a sus clásicos, mientras Darwin conforma su teoría evolucionista de las especies, Marx publica El Capital y Einstein da a conocer su teoría de la relatividad. Bajo la apariencia de una novela juvenil y de aventuras retrata el espíritu de su época: el hombre capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en ochenta días, de realizar un viaje de 20.000 leguas por debajo del mar, de llegar al centro de la...

El frío, la oscuridad y el sueño invernal se cuelan entre los párrafos. El viento helado silencia la esperanza de primavera. Es menester que se resquebraje el hielo y la luz se abra paso de nuevo. Estos relatos exploran el cómo y el cuándo de ese regreso de la tibieza, en tantas formas como miradas existen.

Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, however, it stands wondrously revealed as a place teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Latino and the Anglo, and the women with the men. With her talkative, intimate voice and stylistic narrative freedom, Castillo relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family. "Engaging . . . the author tells an important story and she tells it with inventiveness...

The supernatural appeal of Stoker's Dracula continues to hold readers spellbound more than a century after its initial publication. This work by Bajarlía is an important precedent in that concerning the study of vampirism. Through forceful and direct language, he analyzes Stoker's vampire-triad. This essay includes four additional, unpublished chapters that serve as a crucial part to this retelling of a classic.

A reptilian race is desperate to survive the threat of extinction and needs a new home. Could Earth, known across the universe as Teraboo, be a candidate? This planet has been misused by its current human inhabitants and either the Federations of Systems and Galaxies or the universe’s five gods and goddesses will decide which race has the right to live there. With a missing bacteriological weapon and a mysterious destructive figure wreaking havoc across the universe, the warrior Titans and the Avengers of the universe, whose mission is to serve and protect, to assist and to triumph, will...