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Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings...

«Me gustaba el sonido de las olas. Tenía un nombre ese sonido. Varios: hay treinta y tres maneras de nombrar el sonido de las olas, había dicho mi papá alguna vez, mientras manejaba». Margarita García Robayo mira el mundo con despiadada atención pero también con suma naturalidad: nunca está completamente afuera de lo que observa o de lo que nombra, y el ejercicio de mirarse en el espejo no la paraliza, más bien al contrario. Es imposible describir la cruda y cálida irreverencia de su escritura. Sus personajes se parecen entre sí pero tal vez ellos no estarían de acuerdo, porque...

A seriously wounded stranger arrives to the hospital where doctor Gardelli works. That same night, a mysterious fellow hangs around the corridors of the sanatorium, seemingly concerned for the patient. The following day, both individuals have been murdered. Soon after, the son of Gardelli is kidnapped and she receives a note demanding some information that the wounded man had with him. Al hospital donde trabaja la doctora Gardelli llega un hombre no identificado herido gravemente. Esa misma noche, un misterioso sujeto ronda por los pasillos del sanatorio, aparentemente preocupado por el...

Dulce dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Emilia Pardo Bazán was a Galician author and scholar from Galicia. She is known for bringing naturalism to Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality, and for her role in feminist literature of her era.Her first novel, Pascual López (1879), is a simple exercise in fantasy of no remarkable promise, though it contains good descriptive passages of romance. It was followed by a more striking story, Un viaje de novios (1881), in which a discreet attempt was made to introduce into Spain the methods of French realism. The book caused a...