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Los primeros relatos protagonizados por el emblemático personaje de Sir Arthur Conan Soyle se reúnen en esta edición conmemorativa para celebrar el 125 aniversario de su primera publicación. Las ilustraciones originales de Sidney Paget acompañan las historias como lo hicieron en la revista Strand a finales del siglo XIX. En esta edición permite saborear el atractivo original de un libro que consagró inmediatamente al detective más famoso del mundo.

Edgar Allan Poe fue uno de los pioneros indiscutibles del cuento de terror y la ciencia ficción. No es exagerado afirmar que ningún otro autor ha ejercidotanta influencia y ha generado tantas corrientes literarias como Poe. Este título marca un punto y aparte en su obra por tratarse de la única novela queescribió. Lo que comienza como una fascinante hazaña marina, da paso a unaestremecedora aventura fantástica y de terror que fue completada por autores de la talla de Julio Verne y H. P. Lovecraft.

Persuasión es la culminación del ciclo con el que Jane Austen estableció los cánones del feminismo literario y de la novela decimonónica. Aparecida de manera póstuma en 1818, es un perfecto compendio de las preocupaciones de la autora británica. En ella Austen nos ofrece una auténtica obra de madurez y una brillante reflexión sobre el paso del tiempo.

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot.   So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin?   Investigators suspect Jane’s husband. A criminal defense attorney, Dan Larkin would surely be an expert in outfoxing the police.   But no evidence is found linking him to a crime, and the case fades from the public’s memory, a simmering, unresolved riddle. Jane’s three children—Alex, Jeff, and Miranda—are left to be raised by the man who may have murdered their mother.   Two decades later, the remains of Jane Larkin are found. The investigation is awakened. The children, now grown, are forced to choose sides. With their father or against him? Guilty or innocent? And what happens if they are wrong?

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.

David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic.

NICOLE “NIC” MONROE IS IN A RUT. At twenty-four, she lives N alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown óf Mishawaka, Indiana; she's just gotten a DWI; and she's been working the | same dead-end job since high school, a job she has only because her, boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry | for her for the last seven years—since the day her older sister, Kasey, M vanished without a trace. On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver's door was open and her purse was untouched “in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both cases eventually went cold. Nic wants nothing more than to move on from her sister's disappearance and the state it's left her in. But then one day, Jules's sister, Jenna Connor, walks into Nic's life and offers her something she hasn't felt in a long time: hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will . do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they've ever known.

Es una novela diferente, una ardiente defensa del amor sensual y una fervorosa crítica de la represión religiosa de las pasiones sentimientos humanos; una obra completamente distinta a las anteriores del autor, aunque lleve el inconfundible sello de su siempre alerta curiosidad filosófica.