La sirena de Gibraltar

Harriet estaba jugando a un juego muy peligroso: suplantar la personalidad de su amiga Rosa. Pero el rico Leo Fortinari pareció caer en el engaño y llegó, incluso, a sugerir que se comprometieran para agradar a su frágil abuela. Harriet no quería engañar a la anciana. Pero, ¿cómo decirle a Leo Fortinari la verdad? Leo sabía que Rosa no era inocente y, sin embargo, aquella mujer idéntica en apariencia a ella, era virgen...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «Nos prohíben tener corazón para no correr el riesgo de que nos abucheen y perder la credibilidad.» La dama de las camelias es una de las novelas más populares de todos los tiempos. Adaptada al teatro y al cine innumerables veces, inspiró incluso una de las óperas más celebradas del XIX: La Traviata, de Giuseppe Verdi. La obra cuenta la imposible historia de amor entre Armand Duval, un apuesto joven de alta alcurnia, y Marguerite Gautier, una bella y angélica cortesana. Juntos tratan de desafi ar las rígidas convenciones sociales de su tiempo,...

Ever since her husband, Doug, left her suddenly and without explanation, Galla spends her days on the couch, staring at the magnolia on the patio and fantasizing about throwing herself off the balcony to escape excruciating pain blamed on herself. During her first solo trip, to Munich, she accidentally walks into a museum where the work of the German painter Gabriele Münter is exhibited and her works so full of color and so devoid of joy mesmerize her. From that moment on, Gabriele's voice enters Galla's life: it torments and mocks her as she recounts her long love story with Kandinski, much ...

Burroughs and Kerouac: Two Outsiders Lost in Mexico This edition comprises two texts that explore the voyages of William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, who traveled to Mexico half a century ago: The Lost Bullet (1995 Malcolm Lowry Prize for Literary Essay) and The Disguise of Innocence. "I have left both texts intact," says Jorge Garca-Robles, "thinking that they were written in a specific time and space, and this makes them irreducible." This book combines, in an admirable and spontaneous manner, the portraits of two sui generis outsiders. Our backdrop consists of deserted landscapes,...