Cuentos de la mitología vasca

La principal protagonista de los cuentos es la ciudad norteamericana de Reno, donde se sitúan todos ellos, dada la manera en ésta que condiciona a los personajes. La propia icudad de Reno padece las acometidas del tiempo, al mismo tiempo que los personajes viven sus historias. Ese paralelismo da a las narracione sun tono al mismo tiempo dramático, ironico y cómico, en el que personajes y ciudad se funden en una única realidad. Los personajes de estos relatos creen hallarse en el umbral de una nueva era, pero, al final, no les queda otra opción que aferrarse a cuanto el pasado les ha...

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...

When a rough street kid meets a special girl, he discovers there is no gun or gang tough enough to protect him against the life-changing power of love.

When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down to write the invitations to her eightieth birthday party she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have built; but she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed.