Escritos entre 1873 y 1875 -en especial durante las dos estancias de Arthur Rimbaud en Londres, primero con Paul Verlaine y un año después con el joven poeta German Nouveau-, los poemas en prosa de Iluminaciones son el corolario de una obra que sigue deslumbrando e interpelando a los lectores por su onirismo, su radicalidad profética y su gusto precoz por el desmarque la ironía disolvente. Rimbaud entregó el manuscrito de estas 'illuminations' (la palabra inglesa para 'grabados coloreados') a Verlaine en febrero de 1875, durante uno de sus últimos encuentros, pero el libro no vio la luz hasta octubre de 1886 en las publicaciones de la revista La Vogue. El poeta, establecido a comienzos de esa década en Harar (Etiopía) como comerciante de café y armas de segunda mano y alejado completamente de su pasado literario por voluntad propia, no llegó a enterarse de esta publicación ni del impacto que tuvo en la poesía francesa de su tiempo.
Jane is unhappy.
A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house—a life—she's never really wanted.
There's only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Jane's best and only friend nearly a decade ago during their Creative Writing days at Oxford. It was the only good year of Jane’s life—cobblestones and books and damp English air, heady wine and sweet cider and Thalia, endless Thalia. But then one night ruined everything. The blood-soaked night that should have bound Thalia to Jane forever but instead made her lose her completely. Thalia disappeared without a trace, and Jane has been unable to find her since.
Eda ya no es la misma persona y Pramvera ya no es un misterio para ella. Ni siquiera lo es el temido emperador Dalton Basilius. Las batallas, la sangre y la fuerza del fénix la han cambiado. Sin embargo, entre las sombras, más allá de la oscuridad e incluso de la muerte, se esconden monstruos que aún no conoce y a quienes, por mucho que lo intente, no puede desafiar...
Tras Imperio de fuego azul, con esta segunda entrega de la saga Fénix y Dragón vuelven la fantasía más poderosa y la magia más envolvente acompañadas de una pasión tan feroz que podría cambiar el rumbo del imperio...
¿Te atreves a arriesgar tu corazón?
Una gélida mañana de finales de diciembre, Gyeongha recibe un inesperado mensaje de su amiga Inseon: después de sufrir un accidente en su taller de carpintería en la isla de Jeju, ha sido trasladada de urgencia a un hospital de Seúl. Desde la cama, Inseon le ruega que tome el primer vuelo a la isla y se ocupe de su pequeña cotorra antes de que se le acaben el agua y la comida.
Pero, desafortunadamente, cuando Gyeongha llega a Jeju se desata una terrible tormenta de nieve. ¿Llegará a tiempo para salvar al pájaro antes de que caiga la noche?, ¿sobrevivirá al viento helado que la envuelve a cada paso? Lo que ni siquiera sospecha es que algo más oscuro la espera en casa de su amiga.
On a small island in a remote corner of northwest Scotland lies Maundrell castle, owned by its wealthy namesake family for centuries—until now. Edwina Nunn is shocked to learn a relative she never heard of has bequeathed the castle and its land to her. What awaits Edie and her teenage daughter, Neve, is even more startling, for the castle is home to a multitude of ghosts.
Yet there’s a strange beauty in the austere architecture and the eerie, bloody waters of Loch na Scáthanna, the Lake of Shadows. Beguiled by a frightened ghost who gazes longingly out of the castle’s windows, Edie and Neve are drawn to the legends shrouding the island and the mystery of the Maundrell Red—a priceless diamond that disappeared decades before.
Is the gem really cursed, and the cause of the family tragedies that have all occurred on Samhain—Scottish Halloween? As Samhain approaches once more, Edie and Neve race to peel back the dark secrets entwining the living and the dead—a twisted story of bitter cruelty and hidden love—or they will become another Maundrell tragedy trapped in the lonely hours . . .
It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of the dictatorship of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas–the Butterflies.
In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters–Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé–speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s storytelling, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression.
Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as “Penguin of one’s life”—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.