El Circulo Vicioso

While few among Hans Christian Andersen's characters know a truly happy ending, generations of readers across the centuries have crowned him as perhaps the most popular and beloved author in his genre. Andersen's own humble origins and the extreme poverty in which he grew up are echoed in the often harsh fictional worlds he created, and this wonderful collection compiles 200 of his most memorable stories--all in their original versions.

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,...

Pactos y señales prosigue la titánica senda investigadora que J. J. Benítez emprendió hace más de cuatro décadas: probar la existencia del más allá. A partir de los pactos establecidos en vida entre dos personas, y la muestra explícita en forma de señales que nos llegan a través del universo, y que uno de los dos, ya en el más allá, manifiesta al otro como prueba irrefutable de que hay vida después de la muerte. Cada capítulo está dedicado a exponer un caso que, como es habitual en las obras de J. J. Benítez, se basa en sorprendentes testimonios. Más de doscientas pruebas de ...

Through world wars and civil strife, the Bangor Express has never missed an issue, but now it is losing money hand-over-fist and Rob Cullen, fresh off the plane from his London news desk, has absolutely no idea that he's the man to save it. Lured back to Northern Ireland for the first time in 20 years by the demise of his one-time mentor, the Bangor Express makes Rob an offer he can't refuse and the Guardian reporter can't resist sticking around. After all, it has been a long time since Rob had a real story to get his teeth in to... and with the Bangor Express, that's just what he's going to...