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Edición de Alberto del Río Nogueras.El volumen 19 de la BCRAE reúne la totalidad del teatro enciniano, formado por las ocho églogas incluidas en el Cancionero de 1496 y las seis piezas compuestas a partir de esa fecha. La obra de Encina compendia y eleva a la excelencia la tradición dramática medieval, en la que injerta las perspectivas amorosas propias de la lírica cancioneril y de las ficciones sentimentales, acordes con el gusto palaciego del tiempo y refinadas con ciertos aires mitológicos durante su etapa italiana. Nadie le discute el trono de los inicios de nuestra escena, aunque la posteridad lo olvidase y tuviese que esperar a la época de las vanguardias, al calor de su reivindicación como músico, para cautivar con las mismas armas literarias de sus comienzos: un estudiado primitivismo que logra, bajo disfraz pastoril, calar hondo en las conciencias. Para establecer el texto crítico de la presente edición se ha consultado la totalidad de testimonios antiguos, algunos de ellos conservados en ejemplar único.

Este volumen ofrece una selección explicada y cronológicamente ordenada de las cartas de Oscar Wilde realizada por Merlin Holland, nieto suyo y especialista en su obra, de manera que componen la autobiografía que él nunca escribió. Todo Wilde está aquí. Oscar Wilde. Una vida en cartas es la crónica espléndida de una mudanza terrible, y un auténtico espejo de la vida y la literatura de uno de los genios del siglo XIX.

Publicada por entregas en el periódico 'Niva' hace ciento veinte y cinco años, "Resurrección" (1899), además de última novela aparecida en vida de Lev Tolstói, es la tercera en ambición del escritor ruso, tras "Guerra y paz" (1869) y "Anna Karénina" (1877). Cumplidos los setenta años, Tolstói refleja su preocupación por la búsqueda de una sociedad más justa que corrigiese los privilegios de la aristocracia rusa sobre la población campesina, prácticamente esclavizada. Esa obsesión propia también la siente su protagonista, el joven príncipe Nejliúdov, quien asiste como miembro del jurado al juicio contra la que fuera un amor de juventud, Katia Máslova, que será condenada por envenenamiento a una cárcel siberiana. El remordimiento le llevará a cuestionarse las complejas relaciones de los poderosos con los más humildes y la incapacidad de estos para aceptar un cambio social en defensa de sus derecho

Juniper After a cult tried to sacrifice me to their wicked God, I went on the run, doing whatever was necessary to survive. Until a demon offered me a deal: give him my soul and he’ll help me claim the vengeance I seek. Blood will be spilled, and the monsters I once ran from will soon be running from me. But damning my soul was just the beginning—it’s my heart the demon wants next. Zane I’ve been hunting souls for centuries, but she’s the ultimate prize—vicious and feral with a broken soul as dark as my own. I thought claiming her would be a simple game, but Juniper is far from simple. I chose to follow her on a path drenched with the blood of her enemies, but it’s our blood that may be spilled next. As an ancient God wakes from its slumber, neither of us may survive.

SALEM I wasn’t supposed to be here. I was supposed to be marrying my fiancé, looking forward to a tropical honeymoon. Instead, I found myself on a ferry headed for historic Balfour Manor on Blackridge Island, in the Pacific Northwest. Now I’m stranded, with a woman I’m irresistibly drawn to. Rayne holds secrets as dark and mysterious as her old house. Crimson shadows stalk the halls and strange voices call out in the night—but it's she who haunts me most. Following a gruesome murder, the island's true nature is revealed, and every night becomes a fight for survival. Something is stalking the forest, killing indiscriminately . . . And this time, we're its prey. RAYNE Death has followed me since childhood. My mother's murder and father's violent death changed me, teaching me just how cruel the world could be. I never got what I wanted, until Salem showed up at my door. She’s adventurous, beautiful, and doomed if she stays here. Now, I suddenly have something to lose: the woman who broke down my walls and saw through my mask, who showed me I'm worth loving. My family has long been buried, but even the vilest of secrets must be dug up again to survive the evil that hunts us. I finally have something to fight for, and I'll do whatever it takes to save her.

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.