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Colección Oeste - Samuel Wilcox Lady Valkyrie - http://ladyvalkyrie.com ColeccionOeste.com Los relatos sobre el VIEJO OESTE son entretenidos y instructivos. Estos relatos coincidieron con la Guerra Civil Americana y se situaba entre el Río Mississippi y la costa del Pacífico. El estilo de vida que tuvieron en el VIEJO OESTE estaba ligado a la explotación de las minas, la crianza de ganado, y el cultivo de la tierra. Las ciudades del VIEJO OESTE eran unas cuantas casas de madera, una tienda para comprar los artículos variados, varias cantinas (saloons), la oficina con cárcel del sheriff, ...

Waugh begins his autobiographical story with his inheritance, writing of the energetic, literary, and sometimes eccentric men and women who contributed to his genius. His childhood was for the most part warm, bright and serene, but he remembers the Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed as somewhat painful. His life at Oxford was essentially a catalogue of friendship, an exclusive world he recalls with elegant wit and precision. Finally, he closes with his experiences as a master at a preparatory school in North Wales which inspired his work Decline and Fall. Waugh comienza su relato ...

In this bold novel that shatters the barriers between fiction and reality, the dark object of narrator Chris's desire is Dick, a well-known theorist who refuses to answer her letters. Chris tenaciously continues to pursue him nonetheless, eventually traveling across the country. The passion-fueled journey pushes the protagonist to a state of madness that moves her away from a life in the shadow of her successful husband and brings her to question the very foundation of her femininity. Chris's compulsive love letters act as essays, and a moment arrives when the letters are in and of themselves ...

En el año de gracia de 1192, después de veinte años de caballero templario, Arn vuelve a Götaland con grandes proyectos y una enorme fortuna para realizarlos. Ansía reencontrarse con su amada Cecilia para formar una familia, y tiene que pensar en una forma de buscar la paz entre los linajes enfrentados.