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Una novela romántica que marca un hito en la literatura argentina. Una conmovedora historia moral acerca de la felicidad y el frágil poder del amor.

Argirópolis, "o La capital de los Estados Confederados del Río de la Plata", es la utopía de Sarmiento: una ciudad imaginaria a instalar en la Isla Martín García, a la mitad del gran río que separa Buenos Aires (Argentina) de Colonia (Uruguay). La ubicación de esta capital futura estaba pensada para aplacar los conflictos en torno a la navegación de los ríos y facilitar el comercio con las grandes potencias internacionales. Cuando escribió este libro (1850) Sarmiento todavía apostaba a hacer buenas migas con Urquiza en la lucha por destituir a Rosas. Aquí se recogen sus apuntes...

Trent Rexroth is a businessman who is forced to accept Edie Van der Zee, the daughter of his main competitor, as an intern at his company. Since Trent doesn't like blackmail, they don't get off on the right foot. Also, Trent is cold and calculating and hardly ever talks to Edie, as he doesn't trust her. But, despite everything that separates them, there is an undeniable physical attraction between them, and when Edie discovers the tenderness with which Trent treats his little daughter, Luna, who is mute, part of the walls that divide them begin to fall apart. Crumble. Will they be able to...

Una pintora carente de inspiración, pasa gran parte del día tomando su café en el balcón y observando, sin reparo, la exhibición de sesiones eróticas de sus vecinos del edificio de enfrente.

The six stories that make up this book are all set in the islands of the South Pacific. Whether it be on the islands of Samoa, in Tahiti, or in Honolulu, all of these stories feature the development of tensions between the worldview and the lifestyle of the natives and those of the white men, representing an even more essential confrontation: the one between East and West. Maugham masterfully narrates political stories, stories of frustraded economic ambition, of incomplete or unrequited love, all of which share his talent for exposing the most elemental human passions, those which lead men...