Detrás del pestillo está la dialéctica de Dios

The classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.

Fabian, a young man from a good family decides to assume an attitude of power that is common to the members of a small male chauvinistic society, in the middle of a racially mixed country. Privileged with money and power, he does not make concessions to life and decides to either take it all in or to succumb to it. His compulsive lewdness and madness, a hereditary disease common in isolated towns of some South American countries, is the theme that links this story.

La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña. It tells about a woman married to an older man of high power and property but feeling unhappy in this marriage. To escape from the grey routine of emotionless married life, the main character accepts courtesy from another man, not being aware that he's not her only admirer.

Aquel príncipe de pasado turbulento volvía a Niroli para reclamar lo que era suyo por derecho, la Corona. Nico Fierezza nunca había utilizado su título real. Aun así, el Rey lo había hecho llamar: el país estaba preparado para recibir a su nuevo gobernante. Carrie Evans llevaba años enamorada de Nico, su jefe. Éste, sin embargo, la había rechazado después de una sola noche de pasión y... ahora ella estaba embarazada. Carrie estaba dispuesta a hacer cualquier cosa para defender el futuro de su bebé. ¿Incluso casarse con Nico?