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The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics.

In Irving's great work, The Sketch Book, fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and the pumpkin-topped Headless Horseman, ancestor to countless horror film antiheroes. In addition to 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', The Sketch Book touches on cultural and historical concerns that remain compelling, thanks to Irving's modern outlook and impressive foresight. This new edition, with an introduction from Elizabeth L. Bradley, demonstrates how inextricably Irving's writings are woven into the fabric of American culture - high and low.

At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer. A swift and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation that moves from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to the U.S. as it eerily evokes real-life current events.

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

Cuando Flora MacKenzie abandonó su carrera en Londres para regresar a la remota isla escocesa de Mure, no podía imaginar que Joel, su jefe, la seguiría. Ahora Flora no sólo ha recuperado la relación con su familia, sino que ha abierto una cafetería al lado del mar. Pero la lejanía de Joel, que trabaja temporalmente en Nueva York, está afectando a su relación. Mientras las frías noches de invierno dan paso a los largos días de verano, ¿podrá Flora reencontrar su felicidad con Joel?

Estas dos novelas constituyen un importante documento para conocer la vida y costumbres de la España de fines del siglo XVI. En «Rinconete y Cortadillo», Cervantes dirige su mirada a sectores y ambientes marginales de la sociedad, pero lo hace con ironía y humor, y reflejando, con gran naturalidad estilística, el lenguaje popular y marginal. «La ilustre fregona» es un divertido y alegre episodio de la vida de unos jóvenes estudiantes a quienes atrae vivir libre e independientemente. Estas dos novelas constituyen un importante documento para conocer la vida y costumbres de la España de fines del siglo XVI. En «Rinconete y Cortadillo», Cervantes dirige su mirada a sectores y ambientes marginales de la sociedad, pero lo hace con ironía y humor, y reflejando, con gran naturalidad estilística, el lenguaje popular y marginal. «La ilustre fregona» es un divertido y alegre episodio de la vida de unos jóvenes estudiantes a quienes atrae vivir libre e independientemente.