La Prima

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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,...

¡Los cinco libros del Vaqueros del Rancho Lenox en uno! Vaqueros & Besos: Chance sabe exactamente qué necesita Rosa… y se lo va a dar. Espuelas y Satén: Abrir el corazón de Jacinta conllevará una batalla de voluntades, pero el amor merece la pena. Riendas y Listones: Garrison ha sido demasiado paciente. Es hora de ganarse a su novia. Marcas y Moños: Sólo hay una cosa que él puede hacer para proteger su deseo y su reputación… casarse con ella. Lazos y Encaje: Decidido a protegerla, Jack tendrá que arriesgar todo, incluso el amor de Azucena, para poder salvarla.

En un hogar para niños sin amparo filial, Niña, inspirada por sus lecturas de narrativa detectivesca, tratará de obtener la complicidad de Villano, Aquiles, Buen Samaritano y las fofitas, para urdir su venganza. La víctima: el Maestro tan déspota y por todos odiado. Los cómplices del homicidio: niños que aspiran a descubrir las certezas plausibles tras los conceptos de familia, amistad, amor y fe; tras poseer ya una sabiduría mínima indispensable sobre el abandono, el odio, la violencia, y la desesperanza.