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Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904, Peter Pan is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work and arguably the greatest of all children’s stories. While it is a wonderful fantasy for the young, Peter Pan, particularly in the novel form Barrie published in 1911, says something important to all of us. Here “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” and his adventures with Wendy and the lost boys in the Neverland evoke a deep emotional response as they give form to our feelings about parents, boys and girls, the unknown, freedom, and responsibility. Humorous, satiric, filled with suspenseful cliff-hangers and bittersweet truths, Peter Panworks an indisputable magic on readers of all ages, making it a true classic of imaginative literature.

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.

A stranger emerges out of a freezing February day with a request for lodging in a cozy provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why is he disguised in such a manner? What keeps him hidden in his room? The villagers, aroused by trepidation and curiosity, bring it upon themselves to find the answers. What they discover is not only a man trapped in the terror of his own creation, but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable mysteries of their own souls.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The Bennets are a family of five daughters, and with no male heir, the Bennet estate must someday pass to their priggish cousin Mr. Collins. Therefore, with no fortune or security of their own, the girls must marry well—and thus is launched the story of spirited and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet and the arrogant and aloof bachelor Mr. Darcy.

En el corazón de una mansión inglesa, con tintes góticos y envuelta en sombras, donde los ecos del pasado susurran oscuros secretos, Otra vuelta de tuerca, de Henry James, se alza como una obra maestra del terror psicológico y el suspense, cubierta de una atmósfera de tensión y misterio. Aclamada por la crítica por su impacto y su capacidad de perturbar el ánimo del lector, esta asombrosa novela, cargada de ambigüedad y dotada de una profundidad psicológica sublime, nos hipnotiza y nos hace entrar, casi sin darnos cuenta, en un mundo donde la realidad se entrelaza con lo sobrenatural, desafiando nuestra percepción y empujándonos hacia los límites de nuestra propia imaginación. La trama se despliega con la llegada de una joven institutriz, designada para cuidar a dos niños con una inocencia que pronto se verá cuestionada. Lo que comienza como una misión de tutela se transforma en una lucha por descifrar los enigmas fantasmagóricos que acechan en cada rincón de esta vasta y terrorífica propiedad.