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Bestiario
by Julio Cortázar
In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful undertones: they are perfect. These stories that speak about objects and daily happenings, pass over to another dimension, one of nightmare or revelation. In each text, surprise and uneasiness are ingredients added to the indescribable pleasure of its reading. These stories may upset readers due to a very rare... (more)
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Cronopios and Famas
by Julio Cortázar
Long out of print and now reissued in paperback, Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortzar, perhaps the greatest of Latin American novelists (author of Hopscotch and The Blow-Up and Other Stories). "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the... (more)
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The Book of Sand
by Jorge Luis Borges
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. "The Book of Sand" was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes...combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as "The Congress", "Undr" and "The Mirror and the Mask". Also included are the handful of... (more)
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The Aleph
And Other Stories
by Jorge Luis Borges
El trabajo que da titulo a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negacion y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raiz platonica, y la cristiana, nacida con la doctrina trinitaria de Ireneo y formalizada por San Agustin. Otras dos penetrantes digresiones estudian la doctrina de Nietzsche sobre el eterno retorno y las concepciones basadas en el caracter recurrente... (more)
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Narraciones Extraordinarias
by Edgar Allan Poe
For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los... (more)
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Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es una obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea que merece su lugar destacado en cualquier canon de la literatura universal. Aquí se reúnen dos libros de Borges: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) que incluye ocho relatos y Artificios (1944) con nueve cuentos. En esta colección, Borges nos lleva de viaje por un reino extraño, irresistible y profundamente resonante. Entramos en... (more)
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Putas Asesinas
by Roberto Bolaño
Una deslumbrante coleccion de relatos de un autor que se ha convertido en una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura en lengua espanola.
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Doctor Brodie's Report
by Jorge Luis Borges
This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report".
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The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her... (more)
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Buzon de Tiempo / Mailbox of Time
by Mario Benedetti
"Buzon de tiempo" covers various kinds of relationships and self-knowledge: lost loves; hints of other times; unrequited love; coming to terms with failure, again, and death; inside jokes; and others. Benedetti evokes emotion using his best resources: intelligent wit, cutting irony, and moving tenderness.
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All Fires the Fire
by Julio Cortázar
Text: English, Spanish (translation)A collection of Julio Cortazar's brilliant stories.
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Las batallas en el desierto / Battles in the Desert (Biblioteca Era)
by Jose Emilio Pacheco
Jose Emilio Pacheco (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. He has taught at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He has been awarded the following prizes:... (more)
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The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
by Mathias Malzieu
A fantastical novel, a wildly inventive tale—by turns poignant and funny, lusty and wrenching—about love and heartbreak. Edinburgh, 1874: born with a frozen heart, Jack is near dead when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine—witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans—who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. It is in her orphanage that Jack grows up, amid tear-filled flasks, eggs... (more)
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El frio modifica la trayectoria de los peces/ The Cold Modifies The Fishes Path (Spanish Edition)
by Pierre Szalowski
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Me perderé contigo
by Rafael Pérez Gay
Como otro de los remedios para toda mala fortuna, Me perderé contigo: en mí llevo a la ciudad y a sus habitantes. Este primer libro de relatos de Rafael Pérez Gay sostiene uno de los tonos más atractivos y ofrece varios de los momentos más entretenidos de la narrativa mexicana en los últimos años. “Guirnalda con amores”, peripecias del couch, episodios urbanos y otras celebraciones, Me perderé contigo es también... (more)
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Paraísos duros de roer
by Rafael Pérez Gay
Este libro contiene las historias de un psicoanalista desesperado, un historiador de la cultura que explora la posibilidad de la vida después de la muerte, una pareja que se encuentra a sí misma cuando era veinticinco años más joven, un hombre perdido en la enfermedad y el dolor físico, un escritor que explora los usos y costumbres sexuales de la Ciudad de México. Los cinco relatos de Paraísos duros de roer... (more)
El que susurraba en las tinieblas y poemas/ Whoever whispered in the darkness and poems (Spanish Edition)H. P. Lovecraft
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El que susurraba en las tinieblas y poemas/ Whoever whispered in the darkness and poems (Spanish Edition)
by H. P. Lovecraft
La mujer que noJorge Ibarguengoitia
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La mujer que no
by Jorge Ibarguengoitia
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The Whisperer in Darkness
by H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. He has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu... (more)
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H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus: Book 2
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
by H. P. Lovecraft
STEP INTO A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF HELLISH HORROR... Crawling, clawing, sliming horror, seeping from the night-tipped pen of that Grand Master of heart-stopping supernatural terror - H.P. LOVECRAFT Sample a dark universe peopled with gods best forgotten and strange races best left undiscovered. Shudder in the dank breath of an ages- old evil blowing icily from the dusk-shrouded eons of a time before history.... (more)