La rosa de la china

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,...

La trilogía “El Enigma Doctrinal” compila sucesos históricos ocurridos durante los últimos cinco milenios de la humanidad. Sus páginas reúnen una serie de eventos verdaderos, y entre ellos el autor disimula una ficción novelesca referente a un supuesto documento perdido que contiene misteriosas ideas religiosas, y que ha logrado pasar incognito desde su creación. El Vaticano, por intermedio de su policiaca “Congregación de la fe” le sigue los pasos, y sabe que el pergamino ha sido descubierto, pero éste ha estado pasando de mano en mano durante el último milenio, dejando...

Agustin Moreto (1618-1669) was one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, his fame equaling that of authors as Calderon de la Barca.However, only two of Moreto's famous plays ?"El lindo don Diego" and "El desden, con el desden"? are available in modern editions. The present volume is a critical edition of "Los enga?os de un enga?o", one of many Golden Age comedies left unpublished for many years until now. The modern reader wishing to become acquainted with baroque theatre will find here an excellent starting point, as this is a typical "cloak and dagger" comedy,...

Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research in rural Illinois, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.