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Comedia. Emilia Pardo Bazán Fragmento de la obra Parece tonto esto de narrar cosas que pueden verse solo con asomarse a la ventana o a la puerta. Por puertas y ventanas trepan al asalto la helada, el bochorno, el tráfago y las impurezas de la vía pública... ¡Quién poseyese una urna hialina, y en ella se claustrase, aletargándose antes como los milagrosos faquires! Dentro de la urna, tapadas con cera las aberturas de los sentidos, revulsa la lengua para obturar la laringe, allá el dolor que revolotee y entenebrezca el aire. ¡Dolor! ¡Dolor ajeno, sobre todo! ¿En qué nos atañe? ¿No ...

Novalie has spent the last four years caring for her ailing mother, and that terrible circumstance has forced her to mature too quickly. She has grown into a strong and determined young woman. Nick has a gift for music. He is a piano prodigy. Novalie and Nick are the opposites. Two lives separated by distance and differences. The only thing they have in common is that both must spend the summer in Bluehaven, an island that hides a past full of secrets and that will change their lives forever.

Esta obra cumbre del mester de clerecía resulta hoy todavía lleno de interrogantes para el investigador y el lector. El minucioso análisis que se ofrece en esta edición permitirán al lector redescubrir el Libro del arcipreste, al encontrar nuevas claves en la historia social, política, y eclesiástica de la época en la que fue compuesta.

After decades together, Russell and Corrine Calloway want a calm and stable family life, something that seems impossible to achieve in New York after the Lehman Brothers crisis. They dream of raising their children in the countryside, but their economic situation does not allow it. In a risky attempt to revive his publishing house, Russell hires a book that will be his salvation or his ruin, while the reappearance of a friend of Corrine's will question the strength of their relationship. This is an addictive novel that fully immerses us in Manhattan at the beginning of the 21st century, with...