Regalo de familia

Federico es mordido por un perro portador de la rabia, una peligrosa enfermedad cuyos síntomas tardan casi 40 días en manifestarse, pero cuando lo hacen, llevan al enfermo a delirar y alucinar. El narrador de esta maravillosa historia de Horacio Quiroga es su protagonista y replica el formato de un diario personal. Sin dudas, una obra adelantada a su tiempo.

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

Un pequeño grupo de humanos sobrevive a la epidemia apocalíptica llamada «peste negra», una enfermedad que ha asolado el mundo. Sin embargo, sus ideas opuestas sobre cómo debería gobernarse un nuevo planeta mucho menos poblado son fuente de continuos enfrentamientos. Los primitivos poshumanos creían en la Doctrina: «El mundo posterior a la peste es un colectivo. Estamos juntos en esto. Cuidemos los unos de los otros, com-partamos el trabajo sucio, demos a los necesitados lo que necesitan». No obstante, de manera inevitable, según un mayor número de seres humanos se despiertan de su ...

Perfecta: the Game is straightforward. The Game is played by the best professional killers in the business. The rules: Ten names go on a list. Place a bet of one million dollars. Pick the exact order in which the victims will be killed. Collect the pot.Perfecta: the town no longer exists. A church and a bar are all that remain of what was once Perfecta, Texas. Two brothers and one renegade live there, divided, as dissimilar as the two building left standing. Eugene Green, a would-be preacher, attempts to uphold the unattainable family legacy. His twin Gordon, just wants to drink his problems...