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O libro fundacional da narrativa de Cunqueiro, poboado de personaxes inverosímiles pero absolutamente verdadeiros cos que a invención do seu autor chega a cotas prodixiosas. Publicada en 1955, esta é a novela coa que Cunqueiro comezou a sua obra narrativa logo de escribir varios libros de poemas. A historia dun Merlin xa vello e refuxiado nas terras da Miranda luguesa chega ao lector a traves do relato dunha testemuña directa, o paxe Felipe de Amancia, que lembra os tempos nos que traballou como criado do mago. A historia desenvolvese cunha permanente tension entre o marabilloso e o cotian; pola casa de Merlin pasan numerosos e curiosos personaxes na procura de consello, mais tamen se narran as aventuras de Felipe cando vai facer os encargos do seu amo. Un universo unico na literatura xorde nas fascinantes e engaioladoras historias que conta esta novela, que desde o momento da sua publicacion supuxo un fito no tocante a renovacion da narrativa galega. En Cunqueiro, a arte do narrador, adobiada dun fino sesgo humoristico, sorprende pola capacidade para facer convivir o mito co mundo cotian.

Second in the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy, THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE is the next instalment of a series which is revolutionising fantasy . . .Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . .Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way.For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye . . . before it kills her.Unrest worms into every layer of society. The Breakers still lurk in the shadows, plotting to free the common man from his shackles, while noblemen bicker for their own advantage. Orso struggles to find a safe path through the maze of knives that is politics, only for his enemies, and his debts, to multiply.The old ways are swept aside, and the old leaders with them, but those who would seize the reins of power will find no alliance, no friendship, and no peace, lasts forever.

WINNER OF THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA Sunday Times & New York Times bestsellerThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' (NEW YORK MAGAZINE)__________________________________Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.__________________________________'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL'It subverts expectations throughout Utterly otherworldly' GUARDIAN'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER'Brilliantly singular' SUNDAY TIMES'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN'Head-spinning Fully imagined and richly evoked' TELEGRAPH

Moby Dick tells the story of Ishmael, who announces his intent to ship aboard a whaling vessel. He has made several voyages as a sailor but none as a whaler. He travels to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he stays in a whalers inn. Since the inn is rather full, he has to share a bed with a harpooner from the South Pacific named Queequeg. At first repulsed by Queequegs strange habits and shocking appearance (Queequeg is covered with tattoos), Ishmael eventually comes to appreciate the mans generosity and kind spirit, and the two decide to seek work on a whaling vessel together.

1948. Il Paese e diviso, inquieto, le ferite della guerra non sono ancora sanate, e il commissario De Luca e di nuovo a caccia. Tra le elezioni politiche infuocate di aprile e l'esaltazione estiva per le vittorie di Bartali al Tour de France, si ritrova per le mani un nuovo caso. Un omicidio che qualcuno vorrebbe archiviare troppo in fretta. Sono passati tre anni dalla fine del conflitto e le tensioni sono ancora fortissime. Il commissario De Luca ha evitato la vendetta dei partigiani, che volevano giustiziarlo in quanto ex membro della polizia politica fascista, ed e di nuovo in servizio, ancora a Bologna. Lo hanno assegnato alla Buoncostume; non il massimo per uno che veniva considerato il miglior poliziotto d'Italia. Eppure il caso che si trova ad affrontare e assai piu complesso di quanto lui stesso potesse attendersi. C'e un morto, un buttafuori da bordello, e De Luca, che non e cambiato, viene assalito dalla solita febbre: deve trovare il colpevole, a ogni costo. Anche se non ha l'autorita per svolgere le indagini. Anche se dovra subire enormi pressioni. Anche se intorno a lui l'Italia repubblicana sta vivendo la sua prima grande crisi.

En 2008, la crise des subprimes a durement frappé des individus et des familles entières, jetés à la rue. Ils auraient pu rester sur place, en attendant que le vent tourne à nouveau. Ils ont préfé

Geralt de Riv est un homme inquiétant, un mutant devenu le parfait assassin grâce a la magie et a un long entraînement. En ces temps obscurs, ogres, goules et vampires pullulent, et les magiciens sont des manipulateurs experts. Contre ces menaces, il faut un tueur a gages a la hauteur, et Geralt est plus qu'un guerrier ou un mage. C'est un sorceleur. Au cours de ses aventures, il rencontrera une magicienne capricieuse aux charmes vénéneux, un troubadour paillard au grand cœur… et, au terme de sa quête, peut-être réalisera-t-il son dernier vœu : retrouver son humanité perdue.

Agosto 1938. Un momento tragico della storia d'Europa, sullo sfondo del salazarismo portoghese, del fascismo italiano e della guerra civile spagnola, nel racconto di Pereira, un testimone preciso che rievoca il mese cruciale della sua vita. Chi raccoglie la testimonianza di Pereira, redatta con la logica stringente dei capitoli del romanzo, impeccabilmente aperti e chiusi dalla formula da verbale che ne costituisce il titolo: Sostiene Pereira? Questo non e detto, ma Pereira, un vecchio giornalista responsabile della pagina culturale del "Lisboa" (mediocre giornale del pomeriggio) affascina il lettore per le sue contraddizioni e per il suo modo di "non" essere un eroe. Introduzione di Andrea Bajani.

Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining.This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which he knows considerably less than she does.Situations include men sharing keen insight on the female anatomy, an eloquent defense of catcalling, or offering sage advice about horseback riding to the woman who owns the horse.* These less qualified men of antiquity dish out mediocrity as if it's pure genius* For the women who have endured overbearing men over the centuries* Written with hilariously painful accuracy

Tres parelles de diferents edats viuen a un mateix pis durant una nit que pot canviar les seues vides. Pero sembla ser que el pis no es l únic que comparteixen... Perque t estime, que si no... es una comedia sobre la erosio que el pas del temps provoca en les relacions de parella i com, malgrat aixo, som capaços de reescriure la nostra manera d estimar.

I adored every page of this super-smart, brilliantly funny romcom'Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didin't Call'The new Jojo Moyes... This has all the ingredients of Me Before You'Cosmopolitan'Funny and winning... a Richard Curtis rom-com that also has its feet firmly planted in real life. A real treat'Stylist

Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

A I tu, sols tu, lescriptora Isabel Canet Ferrer ens emociona amb narracions basades en cançons de Zoo, Obrint Pas, El Diluvi, Gener, Pupil·les, Feliu Ventura, Tardor, Liuard, Pau Alabajos, Carles Pastor i Novembre Electric. Histories que ens parlen dabsencies, soledats, amors, maltractaments, esperances. Amb proleg de Flora Sempere, cantant dEl Diluvi, aquest conjunt de relats es un mosaic de sentiments teixits per una banda sonora que ens fa bategar a cada paraula.

A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist.A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad.As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA.Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight-lipped researchers... and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover. But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory-and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner-lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined.To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesn't know she exists-a young girl with unexplainable superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008. Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war-one where the human mind is the battlefield.

Continuing the story of The Hobbit, this three-volume boxed set of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, features striking black covers based on Tolkiens own design, the definitive text, and three maps including a detailed map of Middle-earth.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring the ring that rules them all which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as Bloomsday . The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book - although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States - and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce''s cloacal obsession . None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.

A romaría de Xelmírez pertence á serie de novelas historicas que Otero publicou entre 1930 e 1935. O bispo Xelmírez viaxa a Roma no 1104. Ao longo do camiño, Otero desprega as súas grandes dotes de historiador e xeografo para ofrecernos unha intelixente e fermosa panoramica da cultura, a politica e a relixion da Europa de enton. Adentrarse nas paxinas desta novela acaba sendo un reto que ha deixar ao lector gustosamente rendido ante a xenialidade dunha das mellores obras da literatura galega do seculo XX. A primeira edicion apareceu en 1934 en Santiago, publicada pola Editorial Nos. A presente inclue unha extensa introducion, un tratamento coidado do texto e abundantes notas co fin de facilitarlle ao lector o acceso ao fermoso mundo oteriano.

O libro fundacional da narrativa de Cunqueiro, poboado de personaxes inverosímiles pero absolutamente verdadeiros cos que a invención do seu autor chega a cotas prodixiosas. Publicada en 1955, esta é a novela coa que Cunqueiro comezou a sua obra narrativa logo de escribir varios libros de poemas. A historia dun Merlin xa vello e refuxiado nas terras da Miranda luguesa chega ao lector a traves do relato dunha testemuña directa, o paxe Felipe de Amancia, que lembra os tempos nos que traballou como criado do mago. A historia desenvolvese cunha permanente tension entre o marabilloso e o cotian; pola casa de Merlin pasan numerosos e curiosos personaxes na procura de consello, mais tamen se narran as aventuras de Felipe cando vai facer os encargos do seu amo. Un universo unico na literatura xorde nas fascinantes e engaioladoras historias que conta esta novela, que desde o momento da sua publicacion supuxo un fito no tocante a renovacion da narrativa galega. En Cunqueiro, a arte do narrador, adobiada dun fino sesgo humoristico, sorprende pola capacidade para facer convivir o mito co mundo cotian.

Second in the AGE OF MADNESS trilogy, THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE is the next instalment of a series which is revolutionising fantasy . . .Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . .Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in her way.For heroes like Leo dan Brock and Stour Nightfall, only happy with swords drawn, peace is an ordeal to end as soon as possible. But grievances must be nursed, power seized and allies gathered first, while Rikke must master the power of the Long Eye . . . before it kills her.Unrest worms into every layer of society. The Breakers still lurk in the shadows, plotting to free the common man from his shackles, while noblemen bicker for their own advantage. Orso struggles to find a safe path through the maze of knives that is politics, only for his enemies, and his debts, to multiply.The old ways are swept aside, and the old leaders with them, but those who would seize the reins of power will find no alliance, no friendship, and no peace, lasts forever.

WINNER OF THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA Sunday Times & New York Times bestsellerThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' (NEW YORK MAGAZINE)__________________________________Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.__________________________________'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box' DAVID MITCHELL'It subverts expectations throughout Utterly otherworldly' GUARDIAN'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' MADELINE MILLER'Brilliantly singular' SUNDAY TIMES'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' ERIN MORGENSTERN'Head-spinning Fully imagined and richly evoked' TELEGRAPH

Moby Dick tells the story of Ishmael, who announces his intent to ship aboard a whaling vessel. He has made several voyages as a sailor but none as a whaler. He travels to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he stays in a whalers inn. Since the inn is rather full, he has to share a bed with a harpooner from the South Pacific named Queequeg. At first repulsed by Queequegs strange habits and shocking appearance (Queequeg is covered with tattoos), Ishmael eventually comes to appreciate the mans generosity and kind spirit, and the two decide to seek work on a whaling vessel together.

1948. Il Paese e diviso, inquieto, le ferite della guerra non sono ancora sanate, e il commissario De Luca e di nuovo a caccia. Tra le elezioni politiche infuocate di aprile e l'esaltazione estiva per le vittorie di Bartali al Tour de France, si ritrova per le mani un nuovo caso. Un omicidio che qualcuno vorrebbe archiviare troppo in fretta. Sono passati tre anni dalla fine del conflitto e le tensioni sono ancora fortissime. Il commissario De Luca ha evitato la vendetta dei partigiani, che volevano giustiziarlo in quanto ex membro della polizia politica fascista, ed e di nuovo in servizio, ancora a Bologna. Lo hanno assegnato alla Buoncostume; non il massimo per uno che veniva considerato il miglior poliziotto d'Italia. Eppure il caso che si trova ad affrontare e assai piu complesso di quanto lui stesso potesse attendersi. C'e un morto, un buttafuori da bordello, e De Luca, che non e cambiato, viene assalito dalla solita febbre: deve trovare il colpevole, a ogni costo. Anche se non ha l'autorita per svolgere le indagini. Anche se dovra subire enormi pressioni. Anche se intorno a lui l'Italia repubblicana sta vivendo la sua prima grande crisi.

En 2008, la crise des subprimes a durement frappé des individus et des familles entières, jetés à la rue. Ils auraient pu rester sur place, en attendant que le vent tourne à nouveau. Ils ont préfé

Geralt de Riv est un homme inquiétant, un mutant devenu le parfait assassin grâce a la magie et a un long entraînement. En ces temps obscurs, ogres, goules et vampires pullulent, et les magiciens sont des manipulateurs experts. Contre ces menaces, il faut un tueur a gages a la hauteur, et Geralt est plus qu'un guerrier ou un mage. C'est un sorceleur. Au cours de ses aventures, il rencontrera une magicienne capricieuse aux charmes vénéneux, un troubadour paillard au grand cœur… et, au terme de sa quête, peut-être réalisera-t-il son dernier vœu : retrouver son humanité perdue.

Agosto 1938. Un momento tragico della storia d'Europa, sullo sfondo del salazarismo portoghese, del fascismo italiano e della guerra civile spagnola, nel racconto di Pereira, un testimone preciso che rievoca il mese cruciale della sua vita. Chi raccoglie la testimonianza di Pereira, redatta con la logica stringente dei capitoli del romanzo, impeccabilmente aperti e chiusi dalla formula da verbale che ne costituisce il titolo: Sostiene Pereira? Questo non e detto, ma Pereira, un vecchio giornalista responsabile della pagina culturale del "Lisboa" (mediocre giornale del pomeriggio) affascina il lettore per le sue contraddizioni e per il suo modo di "non" essere un eroe. Introduzione di Andrea Bajani.

Men to Avoid in Art and Life pairs classical fine art with modern captions that epitomize the spirit of mansplaining.This hilarious book perfectly captures those relatable moments when a man explains to a woman a subject about which he knows considerably less than she does.Situations include men sharing keen insight on the female anatomy, an eloquent defense of catcalling, or offering sage advice about horseback riding to the woman who owns the horse.* These less qualified men of antiquity dish out mediocrity as if it's pure genius* For the women who have endured overbearing men over the centuries* Written with hilariously painful accuracy

Tres parelles de diferents edats viuen a un mateix pis durant una nit que pot canviar les seues vides. Pero sembla ser que el pis no es l únic que comparteixen... Perque t estime, que si no... es una comedia sobre la erosio que el pas del temps provoca en les relacions de parella i com, malgrat aixo, som capaços de reescriure la nostra manera d estimar.

I adored every page of this super-smart, brilliantly funny romcom'Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didin't Call'The new Jojo Moyes... This has all the ingredients of Me Before You'Cosmopolitan'Funny and winning... a Richard Curtis rom-com that also has its feet firmly planted in real life. A real treat'Stylist

Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

A I tu, sols tu, lescriptora Isabel Canet Ferrer ens emociona amb narracions basades en cançons de Zoo, Obrint Pas, El Diluvi, Gener, Pupil·les, Feliu Ventura, Tardor, Liuard, Pau Alabajos, Carles Pastor i Novembre Electric. Histories que ens parlen dabsencies, soledats, amors, maltractaments, esperances. Amb proleg de Flora Sempere, cantant dEl Diluvi, aquest conjunt de relats es un mosaic de sentiments teixits per una banda sonora que ens fa bategar a cada paraula.

A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist.A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad.As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch from the sidelines. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA.Unmarked vans, a remote lab deep in the woods, mind-altering substances administered by tight-lipped researchers... and a mystery the young and restless Terry is determined to uncover. But behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory-and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner-lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined.To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects, including one so mysterious the world doesn't know she exists-a young girl with unexplainable superhuman powers and a number instead of a name: 008. Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war-one where the human mind is the battlefield.

Continuing the story of The Hobbit, this three-volume boxed set of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, features striking black covers based on Tolkiens own design, the definitive text, and three maps including a detailed map of Middle-earth.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring the ring that rules them all which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as Bloomsday . The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book - although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States - and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce''s cloacal obsession . None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.

A romaría de Xelmírez pertence á serie de novelas historicas que Otero publicou entre 1930 e 1935. O bispo Xelmírez viaxa a Roma no 1104. Ao longo do camiño, Otero desprega as súas grandes dotes de historiador e xeografo para ofrecernos unha intelixente e fermosa panoramica da cultura, a politica e a relixion da Europa de enton. Adentrarse nas paxinas desta novela acaba sendo un reto que ha deixar ao lector gustosamente rendido ante a xenialidade dunha das mellores obras da literatura galega do seculo XX. A primeira edicion apareceu en 1934 en Santiago, publicada pola Editorial Nos. A presente inclue unha extensa introducion, un tratamento coidado do texto e abundantes notas co fin de facilitarlle ao lector o acceso ao fermoso mundo oteriano.