Cuál es tu tormento

-Bueno, es el típico caso de chica buena conoce chico malo. Julia se ha liado con el hombre indebido, él ha sacado algunas fotos de ella con escasa indumentaria, se han peleado y ella ahora quiere las fotos de vuelta. -¿Y él se niega a devolverlas? Asiento toqueteando el húmedo botellín de mi sidra. Julia Parks me ha ofrecido una cantidad desorbitada por recuperar esas fotos. Necesito ese dinero. Debería ser dinero fácil, pero la cosa se ha complicado. -No sé cómo voy a entrar en esa fraternidad. Savannah pestañea e inclina el rostro hacia un lado como a veces hacen los perros. Se...

Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality,...

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Dream of the Red Chamber provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia clan—the Rongguo House and the Ningguo House—who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes and given imperial titles, and as the novel begins the two houses are among the most illustrious families in the city. One of the clan's offspring is made a Royal Consort, and a lush landscaped garden is built to...

Esta obra nace de la confluencia de cuatro figuras emblemáticas de la literatura francesa del siglo pasado reunidas, en los años 50, alrededor de la ensoñación: Lise Deharme, musa del surrealismo; André Breton, precursor de dicho movimiento; Julien Gracq, «el último clásico»; y el poeta y dramaturgo Jean Tardieu.