A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story. Ranging fro…
Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows …
Los cuentos de la selva fueron escritos por Quiroga para sus hijos y se transformaron, con el tiempo, en lectura de cabecera de los chicos dentro y fuera de la escuela. estos ocho relatos han estado v…
Con inteligencia y profundidad, con sobriedad y sin aspavientos, la narradora de esta novela se embarca en la lectura de un mapa familiar que solo podrá iluminar a condición de no mirarlo de frente. U…
El entusiasmo y la atracción de Roberto Arlt por los experimentos científicos y mecánicos forma parte de su pasion creadora. Del ambiente de la calle, que tan bien conocia el escritor, surgieron sus me…
El juguete rabioso es la primera novela del escritor Roberto Arlt –marcadamente autobiográfica- publicada en el año 1926 por la Editorial Latina. Sus manuscritos datan de la década de 1920 y fueron bo…
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the…
Gilles Latiner is thirty-five, attractive, with a beautiful mistress, and a job in Paris as a journalist. He seems to have all that life can offer. But suddenly he is overwhelmed by despair. Nothing s…
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his w…
Queralt Bonmartí, una joven barcelonesa de familia acomodada, aparece asesinada en un paraje idílico del Camino de Santiago. Había salido tres semanas antes de Roncesvalles, donde tuvo un incidente co…
Shelve La llama de Focea (Bevilacqua y Chamorro, #13)
Sotni mirov vovlecheny v mezhzvezdnuju vojnu, ot ishoda kotoroj zavisit sud'ba chelovechestva. Na planete Giperion, igrajushhej kljuchevuju rol' v jetoj vojne, nachinajut otkryvat'sja Grobnicy Vremeni…
Shelve Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion / Endymion / Rise of Endymion
Este volumen recoge las respuestas dadas por Isaac Asimov a las preguntas formuladas por los lectores de la revista norteamericana Science Digest. ¿Qué hay más allá del universo?, ¿qué es un agujero n…
E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Pe…
This glittering, “wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told” (Neal Thompson, author of 'The First Kennedys') explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and litera…
Shelve Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a semi-comic novel about the UK film industry. It centers on the production of the vacuous movie melodrama Prater Violet, set in Olde Vienna, providing i…
This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1…
Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him backwards into childhood.…
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent cinquante feuillets révélant un roman dont l’action se situe dans les Flandres durant la Grande Guer…
Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a camp ground and a ruined mansion, the Palacio Benvingut. The story, told by three…
Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive these anonymous calls, and she does not wish to be reminded. Nor do her friends and family - though they are constantly looking out for signs …
