The story tells of a bachelor, Calisto, who uses the old procuress Celestina to start an affair with Melibea, an unmarried girl kept in seclusion by her parents. Though the two use the rhetoric of courtly love, sex - not marriage - is their aim. When he dies in an accident, she commits suicide. The name Celestina has become synonymous with "procuress" in Spanish, especially an older woman used to further an illicit affair, and is a literary archetype...

Aranmanoth es una novela de iniciación a la vida y al amor, protagonizada por un muchacho medio humano medio mágico, hijo del Señor del Lines y de un hada de las aguas. En una Edad Media ensombrecida por guerras infinitas, Aranmanoth parte en búsqueda de su destino, alejándose de los demás mortales y obedeciendo a misteriosas señales de las hojas de los árboles y de los pájaros que atraviesan el cielo. Aranmanoth y Windumanoth, su niña amada,...

"Publicada en 1960, La Tregua es la obra de Mario Benedetti que ha alcanzado mayor x̌ito de úpblico. La cotidianidad gris y rutinaria, marcada por la frustracin̤ y la ausencia de perspectivas de la clase media urbana, impregna las pg̀inas de esta novela, que, adoptando la forma de un diario personal, relata un breve periodo de la vida de un empleado viudo, prx̤imo a la jubilacin̤, cuya existencia se divide entre la oficina, la casa, el caf ̌y...

Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. After a first failed adventure, he sets out on a second one with a somewhat befuddled laborer named Sancho Panza, whom he has persuaded to accompany him as his faithful squire. In return for Sanchoʹs services,...

In Spanish.

Stories deal with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing.

Brida O'Fern, a beautiful young Irish girl on a quest for knowledge and understanding, encounters a wise man who teaches her how to overcome her fears and a woman who introduces her to the hidden music of the world.

"Contains fourteen short stories from Gabriel García Márquez, written between 1947 and 1955, including the title selection, along with "La tercera resignación," "Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo," and others."--

"Carmen is keeping the tooth fairy busy, She's lost her two front teeth, and now one of her bottom teeth is wiggling every which way. But Carlos can't even get one tooth to wiggle, even a tiny bit. He hasn't had a single visit from the tooth fairy"--Provided by publisher.