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When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires, and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.

La prefiguración de un destino ineludible y un fecundo prisma de amores traicionados, imposibles o resignados cimentan la arquitectura exquisita de este libro de relatos. A caballo entre el siglo xix y xx, Arthur Schnitzler—una de las voces más relevantes en la Viena de los últimos años del imperio—disecciona los avatares y contradicciones del sentir humano con una perspicacia que sorprende al lector por su modernidad. “El destino del barón Von Leisenbohg” se erige, pues, como un enjambre de pasiones que, más allá de la circunscripción a una época, muestran una imperecedera...

Sara left Oxford at eighteen after discovering a secret. Sarah's father then dies and she has to return to take care of her grandmother who suffers from Alzheimer's. But when Sarah goes to the university where her father was a chemistry professor, she discovers he has spent years looking at flower drawings.

First published on the 700th anniversary of the pivotal event in Scottish history, the epic story of Robert Bruce comes to a climax at the Battle of Bannockburn. Robert has achieved his great ambition to be crowned King of Scotland, but in doing so has provoked the wrath of the new king of England, Edward II. Raising the feared dragon banner, Edward marches north, determined to recapture the kingdom. But the English are not Robert's only enemies, and he is forced to flee after murdering his great rival John Comyn, splitting the kingdom apart. Robert has a crown, but no country, the will to...