El hechizo del demonio

Un título poco conocido de Valle-Inclán, novela póstuma aparecida en su momento por entregas en el diario Ahora de Madrid. La historia narrada en El trueno dorado es el reflejo del período del reinado de Isabel II, previo a la revolución de 1868, una época en la que se ignoraba la igualdad de las personas ante la ley. En este contexto, unos jóvenes de la aristocracia cometen un asesinato por capricho, por prepotencia, por saberse inmunes... Un minucioso prólogo del profesor Gustavo Fabra Barreiro y la reproducción de las páginas de Ahora, con las ilustraciones originales, completan...

Collects legends and myths from throughout North, Central, and South America to provide an intimate glimpse into the lives and beliefs of native Americans on the supernatural, nature, and their own tribal and cultural histories, and includes stories from the Apache, Chibchas, Maya, Aztec, Inuit, and many other tribes.

Thousands of Finnish people kill themselves every year. On the day of St John, Onni Relonen, a businessman in crisis, decides to end his life. But just when he finds an isolated farmhouse, a noise stops him in his tracks. Onni saves the life of another, Colonel Kemppaine. A wonderful friendship is born.

In 1785, Paddy O'Doule, a simple Irish farmer is a press-ganged into the royal navy and later convicted of a crime he did not commit and transported to a penal colony in Australia. After years of suffering and harsh, unjust treatment, peace-loving Paddy, consumed with hatred of the English and the hell-bent on murder and revenge, turns to violence In Belfast, 1992, Mitch O'Doule, Paddy's great-great-great-grandson, is turning his back on violence. A colonel in the Irish Republican Army, he is disenchanted with 'the cause' and is sickened by the ruthless decision to bomb mainland cities and...