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¿Podrá el cariño de Jade curar la sed de venganza de Diego? Jade, nacida del sultán y de una esclava inglesa, vive en el palacio de su padre alejada de los privilegios de su nacimiento, ejerciendo de acompañante de la hija favorita del emperador, Corinna, quien siempre la trató como a una hermana. Al llegar a las prisiones del alcázar una joven española que ha sido comprada, se compadece de ella y la cuida, ganándose el odio de su tía, la hermana del emperador turco. Cuando en una escapada secreta de su hermana para ver a su amado, son secuestradas, Jade se hace pasar por la...

Pantagruel, rey de los dipsodas constituye la espléndida continuación de La extraordinaria vida del gran Gargantúa. Siguiendo el mismo tono paródico y sin perder su intención didáctica, Rabelais ofrece un soberbio fresco de la sociedad y la cultura de Francia -y, por extensión, de Europa- en la primera mitad del siglo XVI.

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...