Ricardo es un medico que trata de luchar contra su ansiedad y angustia desde hace anos, buscando la respuesta a sus males en su vida actual, su trabajo, y en un pasado familiar oscuro, que trata de resolver volviendo a sus origenes, donde comenzo su juventud a la que dejo atras de forma tragica. La vuelta a su antiguo hogar y a sus recuerdos, fantasias y realidades le descubrira secretos impactantes que no esperaba y que le ayudaran a desentrana ...
"The White Ladies of Worcester" is an inspiring romantic story of a nun who enters a convent thinking her lover is dead and a knight who was told his lady had married another. As the nuns in the Nunnery of the White Ladies return from Vespers through the underground passage into the cloisters, an old lay-sister Mary Antony counts them every time by dropping one pea for each nun from her hand into a bag. However, one evening her count turns ...
"Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles" is a novel about the power of will and the ways in which people determine their own fate. It spans three generations of Halliburton family, whose members are dealing with debt, seduction, murder, deception, and the constant threat of sinking below their class. The novel's heroine, the widowed Mrs. Halliburton is presented as a shining example of religiosity and righteousness, and the book follows her ...
Anna ist vier Jahre alt, als ihr auf einen Schlag klar wird, warum sie beim Cowboy- und Indianerspiel immer die Squaw spielen muss, wo sie doch viel lieber der Chefindianer ware. Weil sie ein Madchen ist. Anna beschliesst, fortan als Winnetou durch die Welt zu gehen. Bis sie im Austauschjahr in Kalifornien Namid kennenlernt. Mit ihm wurde sie gern schlafen, doch der Indianer in ihr meldet sich zu Wort und ist dagegen. Um den Indianer loszuwerden ...
"Ziska" is a supernatural and thrilling story about love, passion, treason and revenge, set in the late 19th-century Cairo. Ziska is a reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian woman who was killed by her lover once he got tired of her. The reincarnated Ziska is beautiful, mysterious, seductive, and has stolen the hearts of all the young men, including the famous French painter Armand Gervase, who has just arrived in Cairo. Gervase immediately f ...
"Grapes of Wrath" is a fictional account of the Somme battle, colored by the fact that the greater part of it was written in the Somme area or between the Cable's visits to it. This a story of three friends going together through the misery and horrors of war, inspired by the author's ambition of describing the clash from the point of view of an ordinary infantry private and showing how much he sees or knows and suffers in a great ...
La Rosa te dotze anys quan la seva cosina gran es queda orfena i va a viure amb ella i els seus pares. Les diferencies que la separen de la Tina —l'edat, la bellesa, la personalitat forta, l'extraversio— condicionaran a partir d'aleshores la seva adolescencia, una epoca en que es barregen ingenuitat i maduresa de forma crua. L'arribada de nous veins al barri —el Montso pare i els seus dos fills— fara trontollar definitivament ...
Tacito fue el primer gran escritor en mencionar Londres y, desde entonces, muchos otros grandes creadores nos han dejado sus impresiones de la ciudad. En este libro Dostoyevski y Boswell nos acompanan por los bajos fondos londinenses, mientras que Dickens, De Amicis, London o Kipling nos hacen de guias y nos dan consejos para manejarnos en la capital de Inglaterra. Otros, como Beda el Venerable, John Evelyn o Samuel Pepys nos cuentan como la ciu ...
"The Haunted Hotel" is a suspenseful and captivating story of a family who has been told of their relative's sudden death whilst on his honeymoon in Italy. Feeling rather suspicious of his new wife, Countess Narona, they decide to set out to Italy themselves to uncover the mystery behind his death. On reaching his palace of residence in Venice which is converted into a hotel after his death each of them starts experiencing something st ...
