Peregrinos de la herejía

Although first published in 1891, this ghost story remains a classic of Wildean wit and Victorian sentimentality. True, some of the references to melodrama and nineteenth-century Anglo-American attitudes may elude modern readers, but the basic story of a hardheaded American family that buys a haunted British manor house and proceeds to drive the resident ghost nearly crazy with its skepticism is still a delight, as are Wilde's epigrams.

O pobo de Tras da Corda emerxe en menos de cincuenta anos dende a Idade media ata o século XX, entre as tensións da República, a brutalidade da Guerra Civil e a represión da dictadura. Anxo Xesto vislumbrou a miragre en 1928, cando concebiu unha estrada que puxera remate a tanto illamento e atraso. Unha idea que non sería doado pór en marcha. Tiña na súa contra ao poderoso cacique don Nazario, que non admitía cambio ningún nos seus dominios, e ao mozo comunista Aníbal Coronas, teimudo con facer a revolución. Só Dolores Teixeiro e outros veciños compartían o soño de Anxo Xesto. ...

Francisco Delicado's Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman describes a community of Spanish Jewish conversos who flee from the Inquisition and settle in Rome, Italy, during the first third of the 16th century. A surprisingly modern novel which uses colloquial street language novel to provide a vivid description of a lower class Roman neighborhood as seen by Spanish immigrants at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The central character is a woman, beautiful, witty, rootless and itinerant, who attempts to live independently in Rome. We learn her story through her dialogues with an...

Después de una lucha sangrienta, Conan mata al líder de los humanoides negros que, antes de caer muerto, desencadena un dispositivo de autodestrucción en el estanque pronunciando una fórmula (las únicas palabras jamás pronunciadas por los taciturnos seres).