Biblioteca Nacional

Una herencia aleja a Eugenia de su Granada natal y la conduce al mundo de riqueza y privilegio que su madre siempre había soñado para sus hijas. Bella, cosmopolita y apasionada, los «mejores partidos» de España caen a sus pies. Menos el único hombre a quien ama, el duque de Alba, que prefiere a su hermana Paca, más sensata. Herida en su amor propio, Eugenia se propone conquistar al orgulloso Napoleón III y ceñir la corona imperial de Francia, en la cima de la gloria. Al final de su existencia comprenderá que si Dios quiso darle todo lo que se puede desear en la vida fue para...

The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...

Winds of revolution blows in Europe, and in Milan, a group of men poorly armed revolt against the Austrian army to restore freedom of the city. Jacopo and Aspasia live in those bright days of 1848 a love so brief as the insurrection itself, but as a perennial ideal that will never died. Theirs is a story of passion and betrayal in a world who dreamed of ideals and absolute love. Thirty-six years after the events, Count Italo Morosini, senator of the Kingdom of Italy, receives an anonymous manuscript that takes him back in time.

Los Angeles, 1951. Fred Underhill es un policía inteligente, perseverante, mujeriego y, sobre todo, ambicioso: la muerte de una mujer y el descubrimiento de un asesino le servirán de trampolín a la fama... Con la guerra de Corea de fondo, Ellroy nos acerc