La desconocida

Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings...

El joven Arren, príncipe de Enlad y heredero del trono de Morred, llega a la isla de Roke con malas noticias. No sólo no hay magia en el mundo: una inquieta desazón se ha extenido por los Confines. La gente no encuentra sentido a la vida. Los artesanos y el comercio están arruinándose, las leyes declinan, la esclavitud aumenta. Algo perturba el Equilibrio del mundo.

Sabelotodo Entiendelonada is a collection of six stories which continue and extend the themes cultivated by the author in Tunomás Honey. Very much at home in the northern New Mexican highlands, author Sagel offers us fresh insights into the distinctive multicultural environment of his tierra. The title story recounts the comical but poignant sinsabores of Sabelotodo Entiendelonada, a man so nicknamed because of the contrast between his extensive formal legal education his total ineptitude at simple ranching activities requiring no more than common sense. Among the other unusual characters in ...

Edición íntegra, ilustrada por Rocío Parra, y en tapa dura, de este clásico de la literatura española, escrito por el nobel Juan Ramón Jiménez, en el cual reconstruye, en un tono bucólico, sus andanzas con su borrico Platero por las tierras de Andalucía, a la vez que canta a los paisajes, las gentes, los animales y las costumbres, mediante un yo casi lírico.