Las cosas bellas

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) fue el autor de algunos de los primeros best séllers (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Grandes esperanzas, Historia de dos ciudades...) y actualmente es uno de los mayores clásicos de todos los tiempos y de sus obras se han hecho todo tipo de versiones en todos los soportes imaginables. Son innumerables los lectores que han disfrutado con otros libros suyos tan inolvidables como Martin Chuzzlewit, Tiempos difíciles, Casa desolada, Los papeles póstumos del Club Pickwick, etc.

Told through the eyes of a very grumpy yet lovable mutt, a funny and touching tale of aging, death, friendship, and life that proves sometimes a dog's story is the most human of all. Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole led by a pack of intrepid dogs. But the quiet days Tassen and Mrs. T spend together at the...

The feisty Mrs. Powell has died and left Delbert with a pair of big shoes to fill. Mr. Powell, anxious to become rich on the property he inherited from his dead wife, cannot wait to leave the horrid and backward village of Cerro - and so takes no notice of the prosaic Delbert, the only employee of the Cerro Hardware Store. In his mourning for Mrs. Powell's friendship, Delbert comes to his own realizations concerning the forces that threaten to ruin Cerro, and decides to wage a secret war against what will eventually destroy all he knows and loves. Delbert's initial act of vandalism wreaks...

Luminoso ejercicio de imaginación, La torre sin fin narra una aventura cuyos desenlaces pertenecen al sueño, a las menos sospechadas regiones, climas y peripecias que los sueños habilitan. Luminoso ejercicio de imaginación, La torre sin fin narra una aventura cuyos desenlaces pertenecen al sueño, a las menos sospechadas regiones, climas y peripecias que los sueños habilitan. Leandro, el protagonista, se asoma al igual que las criaturas de Lewis Carroll -como Alicia, como Sylvia, como Bruno- a un aspecto fantástico de lo real que no niega la realidad. Cada una de sus experiencias, que...