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‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...

Un cruel aristócrata, Sir Hugo Baskerville, asesina a una joven en unas ruinas cerca de un pantano. Inmediatamente después, el aristócrata es atacado por un sabueso de gran tamaño, lo que resulta en su muerte. Tras esto se revela que el narrador del relato es el Dr. Richard Mortimer, quien acudió a la casa del detective Sherlock Holmes y el Dr. John Watson para solicitarles su ayuda. Según Mortimer, el sabueso que dio muerte a Henry Baskerville ha atormentado desde generaciones a la familia, siendo su última víctima Sir Charles Baskerville. Dado que el último heredero vivo es Henry...

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive, alcoholic father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Edward VI of England, son of Henry VIII of England.

La lucha por los elementos la decidirá un Simple Humano. Impa, un joven elemental, se verá envuelto en un viaje fortuito en busca de descubrir que está intentando desequilibrar la sinergia entre los elementos. Su viaje le llevará a descubrir seres y zonas del mundo que nunca habría imaginado, así como un conocimiento mayor de los poderes que le han sido otorgados.