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La mítica última obra del premio Nobel de Literatura Ernest Hemingway, "el novelista norteamericano más importante del siglo XX" (William Faulkner). "Tal vez en ningún otro escritor moderno la proeza física, el coraje, la fuerza bruta y el espíritu de destrucción alcanzan una dignidad parecida." Mario Vargas Llosa "Si tienes la suerte de haber vivido de joven en París, la recordarás el resto de tu vida, vayas a donde vayas, porque París es una fiesta." Ernest Hemingway Publicado póstumamente en 1964, París era una fiesta es el libro más personal y revelador de Hemingway, quien, ya en el crepúsculo de su vida, narra aquí los dorados, salvajes y fructíferos años de su juventud en el París de los años veinte, en compañía de escritores como Scott Fitzgerald o Ezra Pound, la llamada "generación perdida". Crónica de la formación de un joven escritor, retrato de una ciudad perdida, oda a la amistad y verdadero testamento literario, esta es una de las obras capitales para entender el siglo XX, así como el universo y la personalidad de uno de sus más grandes creadores. Un clásico atemporal que Lumen recupera ahora con una nueva traducción de Miguel Temprano.

«Brenda Lozano es una espléndida escritora, brillante, divertida, sutilmente perversa, siempre conmovedora.» Francisco Goldman Paloma está muerta. Ha sido asesinada. Pero antes de ser Paloma, su nombre fue Gaspar. Gaspar hacía ceremonias para curar a la gente, pero desde que se convirtió en Paloma, se dedicó a la vida nocturna con los hombres. Prefirió el amor a la purificación. Fue ella quien enseñó a Feliciana todo lo que sabe sobre la curandería. Con este aprendizaje, Feliciana descubre que, además de curar el cuerpo, también puede curar el alma. Pronto sus poderes serán conocidos en todas partes y se convertirá en la curandera de El Lenguaje. Por otro lado, la periodista Zoé decide visitar a Feliciana al pueblo de San Felipe para descubrir no sólo la verdad sobre el asesinato, sino también la vida de la curandera. Y en ese mismo tenor, construirá su propio relato. Brujas es una historia de tradiciones, sanaciones, violencia y, sobre todo, de la importancia del lenguaje; una novela maravillosamente escrita.

More than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece--a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster. "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." For centuries, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level, it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.

When Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time. Langston Hughes called it "a moral battle cry," noting that "the love and warmth and humanity that went into its writing keep it alive a century later," and Tolstoy described it as "flowing from love of God and man."

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories contains, in two volumes, all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world-famous detective. Volume I includes the novels and stories that introduced the brilliant and unflappable Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson, to the world. A Study in Scarlet is a drama of long-simmering revenge that ranges from the fog-bound streets of London to the pioneer settlements of Utah. The Sign of Four weaves together a stolen treasure from India, poison darts, and double-crossing thieves, while The Hound of the Baskervilles sets the legend of a diabolical hellhound and an old family curse against the backdrop of a moonlit moor. The short stories in this volume include such favorites as “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” and “The Final Problem,” tales that have thrilled generations of readers with Holmes’s astounding powers of deduction.

ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE COMPLETE NOVELS AND STORIES, VOLUME II Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories contains, in two volumes, all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world-famous detective. Volume II contains the fourth of the Sherlock Holmes novels, The Valley of Fear, in which Holmes memorably faces his malignant archenemy, Professor Moriarty. The short stories collected here include such celebrated gems as “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge,” “The Adventure of the Red Circle,” “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,” “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire,” and “His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes.” With the stories from the final collection, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1927, this volume carries the venerable detective through to the very end of his enthralling four-decade career as one of the most beloved characters in literature.