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18 de septiembre del año 96 d. C. Un plan perfecto. Un día diseñado para escribir la Historia, pero cuando todo sale mal la Historia ya no se escribe..., se improvisa: una guerra civil, las fieras del Coliseo, la guardia pretoriana, traiciones, envenenamientos, delatores y poetas, combates en la arena, ejecuciones sumarísimas, el último discípulo de Cristo, el ascenso y la caída de una dinastía imperial, locura y esperanza, la erupción del Vesubio, un puñado de gladiadores, la amistad inquebrantable, Marco Ulpio Trajano, el mito de las amazonas, una gladiadora, nueve emperadores, -treinta y cinco años de la historia de Roma. 18 de septiembre del 96 d. C. Un grupo de gladiadores dispuestos a todo avanza por las alcantarillas de Roma. Nada ni nadie puede detenerlos. Ni siquiera la Historia.

In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honestfor that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society—just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend’s sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar. The plan works like a charm—at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule... This novel includes the second epilogue, a peek at the story after the story.

Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend’s brother for ... well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she doesn’t know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can’t seem to publish an edition without mentioning him. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same—especially Penelope Featherington. The girl who was always simply there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams. When he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide . . . is she his biggest threat— or his promise of a happy ending?

Sophie Beckett never dreamed she’d be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball—or that she would be spinning in the arms of her “Prince Charming”—the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton. But when the clock strikes midnight, Sophie’s enchanting evening ends. Since that night Benedict has been able to think of nothing but the bewitching young woman, and he’s sworn to find and wed his mystery miss. Yet will another unexpectedly steal his heart—and his chance for a fairy tale love?

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En la incesante bibliografía en torno a Franz Kafka, hace ya mucho que El otro proceso (1968), de Elias Canetti, ocupa un lugar muy destacado. Este volumen presenta una nueva edición de este ensayo fundamental, a la que se suma un ingente material rigurosamente inédito: el contenido de los «cuadernos» en los que, mientras lo escribía, Canetti fue realizando anotaciones de todo tipo. Se trata de notas de lectura (de la lectura sistemática que Canetti emprendió entonces de la obra entera de Kafka), con la que se mezclan otras muchas en las que el autor de Masa y poder proyecta sobre Kafka sus propias obsesiones, y contrasta su propia personalidad con la de él. Se accede de este modo al laboratorio de ideas, de revelaciones y de vivencias de las que emergió El otro proceso, cuyo texto queda expuesto a nuevas luces. Los trabajos preparatorios de El otro proceso tuvieron lugar en un periodo de gran efervescencia tanto en la vida íntima como en la trayectoria literaria de Canetti, y se concentraron en un año –el de 1968– también de enorme efervescencia política y cultural. De todo ello queda reflejo en los apuntes aquí reunidos, a los que se suman todos aquellos que Canetti había dedicado a Kafka durante los años anteriores a recibir el encargo de escribir El otro proceso, más otros muchos posteriores a la publicación del ensayo hasta su muerte, en 1994. Se compendia así la práctica totalidad de cuanto escribió Canetti en relación a «el escritor que más puramente ha expresado nuestro siglo y al que, por lo tanto, considero como su manifestación más esencial».