El Rey de Pikas

Introducing twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over two hundred years of history. 'American literature and the short story might be said to have come of age at about the same time, and this, along with something in the bustling and energetic American temperament, might go some way towards explaining why the two go together as well as they do.' Twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years provide a mesmerizing, multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the unique literature produced by this most exuberant...

Simeón Lee, un anciano riquísimo de extraño y despótico carácter, reúne para la Navidad a toda su familia. Las aparentemente plácidas fiestas navideñas se convertirán en trágicas al ser brutalmente asesinado el anfitrión. Poirot hará, de nuevo, gala de su sagacidad.

¿Pueden volar las medusas? El apacible verano de Leyre, que pasa unos días junto a sus abuelos, se ve alterado al aparecer medusas flotando en la piscina de la urbanización. Los vecinos, encabezados por la extraña presidenta de la comunidad, se organizan para pillar al gamberro, pero sus estrafalarios intentos no dan fruto, por lo que Leyre y sus amigos se ponen a investigar al más puro estilo detectivesco de los Cinco. Sumérgete en esta historia de medusas: acabarás enredado entre sus venenosos tentáculos de humor y tu imaginación volando libre por legendarios episodios de la...

Through the years, said Gunter von Gropius, more than once have I felt certain feeling of anxiety, of a silent melancholy. Even though the motive may look foolish, tackiness very own of young women, it has always been the same: take at fault the complexity of a friend. That shortage is the way of Glands, a novel by Eduardo Rojas Rebolledo where memory takes a lead role. Starting from the narrators own memories, full of humor and melancholy, they outline what forms a friendship filled with sexual adventures, jilted lovers and jealousy, intrigues, painful affairs and death.