El esplendor de la Villa de la Seda (Serie La Villa de la Seda 2)

Damon was just an ordinary comic book store employee, then one day that all changed. The world was plunged into chaos as monsters emerged from the ground and the sea. With them an ancient power that bestowed a few humans with special abilities. Mankind in their desperation resorted to drastic measures, nearly destroying themselves in the process. Damon was one such person to get a special ability. Unfortunately this power is slowly corrupting him and everyone around him. Along the way he meets his high-school crush, Emily. They slowly descend into madness, depravity, and lust. Join them as...

Rachel es una niña traviesa y curiosa, investiga y se escabulle en una casa que apenas conoce y que está llena de secretos. Ella ha regresado a su hogar bajo la custodia de su padre después de ocho años de ausencia y tras haber escapado misteriosamente con su madre, cuando aún era muy pequeña. En medio de una Inglaterra en reconstrucción después de la Segunda Guerra, muchas son las preguntas que rodean a la pequeña cuestionando su verdadera identidad. Sin embargo, hay una situación que hace pensar a su padre que la niña que acogió de vuelta en su casa es realmente su hija: la...

Paulina 1880, published in 1925, strikingly prefigures the French "new wave" in fiction. In Pierre Jean Jouve's first novel, Paulina - said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan - enters a passionate affair with a married man. Her love for Count Michele Cantarini is all-consuming, yet Paulina is plagued by its impurity in the eyes of her family, of society, of God. The death of her father, and the subsequent death of the Count's wife, send Paulina into an abyss from which neither her love for Michele nor her faith in God can rescue her.

"A-t-on un sexe ? Cet outil se réveille en pleine mitraille, frotte la couture du froc, bande, l'amour, la mort. La nature unie, brutale, vacharde, contre vous le brasier, le soleil lance-flammes, la terre crisse, crible, qu'importe la haine ! On se débat avec soi-même, s'en sortir entier, avec ses bras, ses jambes, sa totale déraison pour être plus efficace le lendemain. Percer une poitrine à la baïonnette, arrêter un sourire, bloquer une plainte en gargouillis, aucune idée assez forte pour ça, seule la peur. (...) Belchite résiste, deux mille hommes sont là-dedans. "Que la ville ...