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Martin Rivas, one of the most important novels by Alberto Blest Gana constitutes a clear example of the best chilean narrative tradition. Over the background of a frustrated liberal rebellion, amidst the growing opportunism of the political ruling class, the author sketches a love and social climb story, told with remarkable tact, equilibrium and vivacity. Province and capital, people and elite, french imitators and mixed race, romantics and social climbers, all make for and enliven a social picture of recognizable XIX Century hues. Martin Rivas is an entertaining whilst significative novel,...

This volume brings together six stories by Nobel laureate Issac Bashevis Singer, six unpublished masterpieces (with the exception of The Guest, published in our Mini-readings collection). The world described by Isaac Bashevis Singer in his novels and stories evidences the destruction of a threatened culture, but this destruction is not described by Bashevis Singer as a process coming from the outside world, but rather from within Jewish families, more permeable to modernity of what was believed. Thus, his characters are young men destined to be rabbis who lose their faith, Jewish-Polish women ...

Situada en el ultimo ano del siglo XX, a lo largo de esta Opera Prima el narrador, sin proponerselo, nos transporta a traves de distintos viajes geograficos, cronologicos, magicos y vampiricos. Travesias que le llevan a confrontarse con aquellas herencias de familia que no se inscriben en ningun testamento, sino que se manifiestan en la carga karmica filial que le ha sido transmitida generacion tras generacion. "Vampiros en el Espejo" propone el mito del vampiro en forma dual: abordando simultaneamente tanto percepciones donde nos podemos hallar a nosotros mismos a traves de la historia de...

Oriol, sole heir to a wealthy family, confesses to his father that he has a son whom he has kept secret from everyone. From that moment, his life Lucas takes a radical turn: he is disciplined and now faces the competition of other candidates for his grandfather's fortune. Locked in a mansion, he meets Alicia, who will teach him what love truly is.