El templario de Valsaín y otros cuentos

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Dream of the Red Chamber provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia clan—the Rongguo House and the Ningguo House—who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes and given imperial titles, and as the novel begins the two houses are among the most illustrious families in the city. One of the clan's offspring is made a Royal Consort, and a lush landscaped garden is built to...

Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining...

El libro Culpa compartida reúne veinte narraciones, diez de autores panameños y el resto de colombianos, que examinan la identidad de sus respectivos países. Las selecciones son antecedidas por escritos de sus antólogos. En el caso panameño, Álvaro Valderas fue quien cumplió con la encomienda, y Betuel Bonilla Rojas lo hizo por Colombia.

Este apasionante relato de uno de los grandes de la literatura universal apareció por primera vez en 1878 en The London Magazine. Algunos años después Stevenson retocó el texto y, junto con los cuentos que componen El club de los suicidas, lo publicó en 1882 en un único volumen que se llamó Las nuevas noches árabes, como claro homenaje al clásico Las mil y una noches. En El diamante del rajá Stevenson narra las peripecias de una joya fabulosa, el sexto diamante del mundo, propiedad de Sir Thomas Vandeleur, a quien se lo regaló el rajá de Kashgar (actualmente, China). A través de...