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Una selección minuciosa de los textos más brillantes del poeta sevillano permite recorrer la evolución de una sensibilidad que definió el romanticismo español. Desde la brevedad de sus rimas hasta la profundidad de sus leyendas, esta recopilacion ofrece una vision completa de un autor obsesionado con lo inefable. La palabra se vuelve aire y luz para intentar explicar los secretos del corazon y la creacion artistica.

Tradiciones antiguas y fuerzas ocultas se manifiestan en parajes españoles cargados de historia y misticismo bajo la pluma evocadora de un genio romántico. Cada relato es un portal a un mundo donde la pasion desafia a la muerte y los juramentos incumplidos tienen consecuencias eternas. Una lectura esencial para quienes buscan la magia oculta en las ruinas y la poesia de lo desconocido.

El susurro del viento y las sombras de las catedrales cobran vida en esta colección de relatos donde lo sobrenatural se funde con el romanticismo más puro. Bécquer captura la esencia del misterio y la melancolia en prosas liricas que exploran amores imposibles y fantasmas del pasado. Es un viaje hacia el lado oscuro de la imaginacion donde la belleza siempre esta teñida de una dulce tristeza.

Una investigación fascinante y real sobre la vida de un escritor malogrado: Tristan Egolf.«Una biografía minuciosa y bien documentada escrita como una novela, donde todo es verdad excepto el narrador

A thrilling story of a sibling bond tested by religious and ideological conflict. The final novel in a trilogy from the iconic Assassins Creed universe.Dive into the Inquisition and witch hunts in Renaissance France with Assassins Creed!1609. The Inquisition is raging across Europe, massacring thousands of men and women on charges of witchcraft. Raised in the Landes region of France, Margaux and Ermeline, 16 and 17 years old, are initiated by their adoptive mother Catherine into the practices of healing. While her younger sister flourishes in this simple life, Ermeline dreams of something more, of settling in town, far from the forests of south-west France.This peaceful life comes to an end when Catherine, denounced for witchcraft by a patient, is taken to Bayonne with her eldest daughter by Pierre de Lancre, a master inquisitor and Templar in search of an ancient artefact. The two girls witness their mother being burned at the stake: Ermeline as a hostage of the Templars, Margaux watching from hiding. Distraught, Margaux is taken in by Nicodemus, an Assassin close to Catherine, who will train her in the Creed, while the anger of the French people ferments against the Inquisition.Separated, the two sisters must mourn their happy youth, but also decide which path to take and which destiny to join. Assassin or Templar? The path of blood, or the path of the heart?

Return to Sunday Times-bestselling author Adrienne Youngs lush Greco-Roman inspired fantasy, where young lovers Luca and Maris must traverse the bloody warzone that their city has become to spite the gods and rekindle their romance.The war is just beginning.When the city fell, Maris lost everything--her freedom, her future, and the man she loved. Now, with Luca trapped behind the gates of Isara, she makes a choice that will change her life forever: to don the armor of the enemy and march back into the heart of the city she was forced to flee. Every step brings her closer to Luca, but also deeper into the blood-soaked machine of war.Inside Isaras walls, Luca wrestles with a truth more dangerous than any sword. Once the symbol of the Loyal Legion, he has lost the thing he was truly fighting for--Maris. The shift of the war has left him to question whether he has become a pawn of the gods, and with betrayal lurking in every shadow, Luca must decide who he is: the dutiful soldier forged by rebellion, or the man willing to risk everything for love.Across battlefields and through broken temples, Maris and Lucas treacherous paths through Isara are set to collide. And when the gods demand sacrifice, it comes in a form no one could have expected.

Novela galardonada con el prestigioso Premio Minotauro«El Nilo que nos alimentaba, nos nutría y nos abastecía se ha vuelto en contra de sus propios hijos. Ahora somos sus parásitos. Ahora somos sus p

Nos corredores do palácio, onde segredos fervilham e destinos são selados sob o olhar dos poderosos, uma jovem descobre que até os gestos mais simples podem mudar o curso da história.No coração da an

Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This novella boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing law for tinkers. Who but Agnes Owens could concoct such a delicious brew of dour hilarity. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

Lean Tales comprises Agnes Owens complete lifes work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever, confirming her place as one of Scotlands finest contemporary writers. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

In Jens Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belles plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the towns entire male population. With a perfectly tuned ear for the droll and the deadly, Owens can spin a tale of domestic mayhem that is at once disarmingly tense and movingly human. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

Gentlemen of the West is Agnes Owens first novel. It is the acutely observed series of episodes in the life of the narrator, a 22-year-old bricklayer whose situation and lifestyle will be immediately identifiable to many readers. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed and Mac leaves for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he soon finds himself out in the wilderness, chasing the promise of a job. In the meantime, hes fallen for Nancy, but he cant tear himself away from the other love of his life: the drink. This darkly comic novel is a tale of addiction, masculinity and the precarious nature of employment for working-class men in 1980s Scotland. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

A Working Mother is a wildly entertaining cautionary tale: while Bettys husband, Adam, broods and drinks (to be matched at times by Betty, just to be sociable) she flirts with their best friend Brendan and tries to avoid the roving hands of her new employer. Theyre all driving Betty crazy. A sharp, darkly humorous novella that explores the life of a working-class woman caught in a destructive relationship and an unforgiving society. Agnes Owens sharp wit, humour and lean prose is beautifully displayed in this tragi-comedy. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital, known as the Duchess, to read the manuscript. Frankly the duchess would prefer a Mills and Boon, but her friends wartime tragi-comedy soon gets a grip on her imagination. For the Love of Willie is a compassionate look at wartime pregnancy and teenage predicaments through the eyes of Peggy, first as a shy sixteen year-old in love and later as an inmate in a psychiatric hospital. Published to celebrate Agnes Owens centenary year in 2026.

Em uma noite implacável de chuva, a médica Enya se vê sozinha em uma estrada montanhosa na Irlanda, tentando salvar a vida de um adolescente vítima de um atropelamento. A cena parece um pesadelo, e o

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is richly envisioned and powerfulOn Pio, the floating empire of lotuses, Xlian discovers the royal advisors ploy to overthrow her brother, Yun, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make Yuns death seem as though an accident. She flees to the drowning continent of Opera, a place of high tech and near environmental collapse where companies vie to sell a chance at immortality. There Xlian seeks out her exiled brother Lang to help in her efforts to disrupt the advisors plans and remove them from court.Also residing on Opera is the outcast, No Face. Abandoned by the empire of Pio, they plot to destroy those who tore their family apart. When Xlian is caught and imprisoned and No Face discovers the shocking truth about their past, the two must work together to stop the advisors and unify their two lands or lose everyone they love to flood and revolution.

Um romance incendiário e filosófico, insólito do início ao fim, sobre punks, o amor adolescente e a crença na renovação do mundo, que ocupa um lugar central na obra de César Aira.Na sua habitual cami

Un hijo descubre de pronto episodios del pasado de su madre que trastocan su propia vida.«Una celebración del amor filial en un breve relato nostálgico. Delicioso.» Version Fémina«Una gran obra de es

En una Granada llena de fervor y contrastes, un joven de origen misterioso se enfrenta a las estructuras sociales y religiosas por un amor imposible. El conflicto entre la pasión ciega y las convenciones morales conduce a los personajes hacia un destino tragico de dimensiones epicas. Es una exploracion descarnada del fanatismo, el orgullo y la lucha individual contra las fuerzas de una comunidad implacable.