Flores y Rejas

Los ojos del rey de España, Alfonso XIII, se clavaron en los de la actriz Carmen Ruiz Moragas y en ese preciso instante comenzó una pasión turbulenta, intensa y peligrosa, como el desdichado tiempo histórico que les tocó vivir. Carmen había tenido una vida azarosa y un matrimonio trágico con un famoso torero, y aunque el amor del rey era tan profundo y desenfrenado que estuvo a punto de convertirla en reina, ella se negó a renunciar a su profesión, su independencia y su libertad. Pilar Eyre, con una voz narrativa magistral, teje una novela apasionante, llena de sorprendentes...

Two of Voltaire’s most celebrated works of prose are brought together in this collection that illustrates his famous wit and explores his philosophy through fiction. “Micromégas,” widely considered to be the origin of certain ideals of science fiction, introduces the giant Micromégas, a young explorer from another planet who comes to Earth and is surprised when he cannot see any intelligent life. Zadig, a short philosophical novel, involves a good-hearted young man who is fated to deal with an endless series of romantic and social obstacles, overcoming one only to be faced with the...

After fifteen years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss institution, Prince Mishkin returns to St. Petersburg to find a jaded mid-19th century social world. At first, the kindly, almost childlike prince is taken for an idiot. But the two most beautiful women in town are soon competing for his affections in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.

A single family, divided into those who support the Cuban Revolution and others who maintain a secret opposition, struggles to survive in a world of lies, hope and despair, and the ancient African gods known in Cuba as the Orishas.