El retrato de Dorian Gray fue la única novela de Oscar Wilde, publicada en 1890 en la Revista de Lippincott. Como la mayor parte de su trabajo y de su vida, este melodrama gótico, fue polémico. En el prefacio al libro, Wilde...
Las preocupaciones y los temas característicos de los relatos de Adolfo Bioy Casares se dan cita nuevamente en EL SUEÑO DE LOS HÉROES, novela en la que lo fantástico irrumpe en la trivialidad cotidiana de una pandilla de amigos...
In 1927, Manuel Rojas published his first significant collection of short stories, Hombres del sur (Men of the South), which included his short story "El vaso de leche." It is one of Rojas' best known and most widely anthologized tales.
"El vaso...
The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of...
Louis Couperus was catapulted to prominence in 1889 with Eline Vere, a psychological masterpiece inspired by Flaubert and Tolstoy. Eline Vere is a young heiress: dreamy, impulsive, and subject to bleak moods. Though beloved among her large...
The rediscovery of a masterpiece of Central European literature originally published in Budapest in 1942 and unknown to modern readers until last year. An extraordinary novel about a triangular relationship, about love, friendship, and fidelity,...
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she...
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen’s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she...
Emma cuenta la historia de la señorita Woodhouse, una joven empeñada en hacer de Celestina de sus amistades y relaciones. Pero en el proceso se olvida de atender sus propios sentimientos.
Cuando su institutriz, amiga y confidente, la señorita...