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Born November 5, 1884, in London, James Elroy Flecker received his education at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Consular Service in 1908, was posted to Constantinople in 1910, and from 1911 to 1913 Flecker served as vice-consul at Beirut.These appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Switzerland where he died January 3, 1915. Influenced both by his classical education and by his experiences in the Orient, he published five books of poetry, The Bridge of Fire (1908), Thirty-six Poems...

Luego de la muerte de su madre, Fernanda viaja con su familia a Nueva York para intentar dejar atrás el duelo y encontrar una felicidad perdida junto a su pareja y su hija. Es un viaje largamente deseado, pero pronto descubre que una presencia fantasmal la acecha desde la oscuridad. Después de La sed, novela en la que incursionó por primera vez en el gótico, Marina Yuszczuk explora esta vez la frontera con el cuento de hadas, el lado más oscuro de la maternidad (o de la vida familiar), en donde no se distingue entre madrastras, madres, brujas. Para que sepan que vinimos es, de principio...

Más allá de las montañas, en un mundo poblado por orcos, elfos, enanos y humanos, y guardado por los Siete Dioses, vive Dorken, un hechicero, con su familia. Sin embargo, su plácida vida está a punto de verse alterada por acontecimientos que escapan a...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...