Vaso de rocío es un drama teatral del dramaturgo Salvador Rueda. Ambientado en la Grecia clásica, cuenta una historia de amor frustrado en las coordenadas típicas de la obra del autor: el gusto por el costumbrismo, las potentes imágenes sensoriales, un incipiente modernismo en el estilo y una plasticidad tan pictórica como musical en las metáforas.-

Defense attorney Andy Carpenter manages to sail through any tough situation, whether inside the courtroom or in his personal life. But this all changes when his marriage breaks up and his father suddenly dies, leaving him distraught - and 22 million dollars richer. Andy doesn't know how his father accumulated this fortune or why his father begged him to take on the appeal of a death row prisoner. With the help of his new found love, P.I. Laurie Collins,...

A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

Named the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers Academy A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Eighteen-year-old Maja Norberg is charged for her involvement in the massacre that left her boyfriend and her best friend dead. She has spent nine months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. How did Maja-popular, privileged, and a top student-become...

Introducing an electrifying new voice in legal fiction--in a phenomenal thriller unlike anything you've read before...

Debut author Sheldon Siegel bursts into the legal arena with a riveting courtroom drama, exposing the world of big-time law firms and lawyers in a sharp-witted, wonderfully sardonic page-turner of a novel.

Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex-public defender. Ex-husband. And as of yesterday, ex-partner at Simpson & Gates,

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Por fin recogidas en un volumen las mejores piezas literarias del autor de Patria. Su infancia en un arrabal de San Sebastián, su memoria del dolor en los años oscuros en el País Vasco, su experiencia como maestro en Alemania, sus rituales a la hora de escribir y de encontrarse con los lectores, algunos paseos y viajes, las lecciones extraídas de una atenta lectura de Albert Camus: este volumen reúne los mejores artículos literarios de Fernando...

La historia de cuatro mujeres que cuentan en primera persona su propia historia en un tiempo de confusión ideológica y crisis generacional. En el Departamento de Obras de consulta de un gran grupo editorial, cuatro mujeres trabajan en la confección de un atlas de geografía en fascículos. Reunidas por azar en ese proyecto, y muy distintas entre sí, todas comparten, sin embargo, una edad decisiva, en la que el peso de la memoria matiza ya la conciencia...

"A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson,...

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections: between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.

"The Light That Failed" is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard. Though it was poorly received by critics, the novel has managed to remain in print for over a century. It was also adapted into a play, two silent films as well as a drama film.