Nuevos sueños morales. Las mazmorras de Satán

¿Qué se siente horas antes de morir? ¿Somos conscientes de que eso está ocurriendo? ¿Es cierto lo que dicen de que antes de morir la vida nos pasa por delante como una película en blanco y negro? Mina aguarda en su cama a que algo suceda. No puede ver, pero sí escucha ruidos y voces que vienen desde distintas partes de la casa. -Mina, levántate. Pero ella no puede, no siente sus piernas. Espera, aquella voz le resulta familiar. -¿Eres tú, Juan José? ¿Mi Juan José de mi vida?

After a lifetime of chasing women, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell in love. Unfortunately for Michael, Francesca's surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer, the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin.

Aurora Caceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, Caceres challenged the ideological parameters of the movement. While her protagonist appropriated the modernista precept of women as subjects to male veneration, she also took active control of her sexual life in a world where husbands still treated their wives as objects. The objects in this novel are not people but implements of communication and medicine, reflective of the apogee of the industrial age. The action, which takes...

A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual tiny child.