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The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand – with partners and children, homes and dreams. And secrets, the sisters have those too. But when Kate, the eldest, finally returns to buy her late grandfather's home, the dark things each sister has kept buried soon rise to the surface. Is Kate having unexplained visions tied to a past she can hardly recall? Is Aurora, the married mother of two, finally acting out in the face of her sisters' indiscretions? Is Peggy, the youngest and a recovering addict, able to move on from the memories that haunt her?

Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath’s basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children. With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnected . . . but it rings at night anyway, with calls from the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Encrucijada de todas las obsesiones e intuiciones de el autor y exponente de su singular talento para el relato, El Lobo estepario se inscribe dentro del empeño, patente a lo largo de toda su obra, por iluminar la zona oscura de la condición humana a fin de poner al descubierto su carga trágica y un incierto destino.

Escrita tras las trágicas experiencias de la Gran Guerra, Demian es una de las obras más emblemáticas de Hermann Hesse. La novela en la que late la repulsa de la sociedad burguesa y masificada y el llamamiento de los elegidos (los que llevan en su frente el «estigma de Caín» para conquistar la autenticidad y emprender la reconstrucción comunitaria de la humanidad.

Una emotiva historia de amores cruzados, en un viaje que llevará a sus protagonistas a conocer realidades paralelas al mundo real. Del mismo modo en que, en el viaje del satélite ruso Sputnik, la perra Laika giraba alrededor de la Tierra y dirigía su atónita mirada hacia el espacio infinito, en Tokio tres personajes se buscan desesperadamente intentando romper el eterno viaje circular de la soledad. El narrador, un joven profesor de primaria, está enamorado de Sumire; pero ella, quien se considera la última rebelde, tiene una única obsesión: ser novelista. Sumire conocerá a Myû, una mujer casada de mediana edad tan hermosa como enigmática, y juntas emprenderán un viaje por Europa tras el que nada volverá a ser igual.

Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.