Que el árbol no tapa el bosque, nos recuerda el legendario dicho. En el tema que nos reúne, la extraordinaria antología de cuentos de terror Mujeres letales, el árbol en cuestión es Frankenstein, la novela de Mary Shelley; el bosque otros relatos de Shelley y de algunas de sus contemporáneas más ilustres y de otras casi desconocidas. Frankenstein parecía ser la excepción, y sin embargo era un índice de lo que otras mujeres estaban escribiendo. Aunque la ficción gótica y de terror es un género...
Comparado con Richard Ford y Alice Munro, la aparición de David James Poissant produjo una conmoción literaria en los Estados Unidos. Sus cuentos se inscriben en esa gran tradición que incluye a Antón Chéjov y Raymond Carver, una tradición que siempre suele darse por concluida, hasta que aparece un nuevo escritor y la revitaliza. Es lo que sucedió con este libro. El cielo de los animales es un deslumbrante volumen de relatos sobre personas agobiadas por la pérdida, la culpa o lo implacable del...
Этот необычный романчик русские литераторы писали почти сто пятьдесят лет. Но так и не дописали, потому что главный персонаж его все норовил ускользнуть от острого писательского глаза, менял окрас и, по выражению Салтыкова-Щедрина, бесшумно переползал «из одного периода истории в другой». Сегодня, перечитав классиков, мы можем воссоздать совершенно необычное коллективное произведение, дошедшее до нас в отрывках, набросках и коротких главках. Загорецкий, Молчалин, Шприх, Чичиков, Глумов,...
"An Alphabet of History" by Wilbur D. Nesbit. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible...
"Deutsche Lyrik seit Liliencron" von Hermann Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christian Morgenstern, Stefan Zweig, Max Dauthendey, Peter Altenberg, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Emanuel von Bodman, Walter Calé, Hermann Conradi, Theodor Däubler, Jakob Julius David, Richard Dehmel, Adolph Donath, Albert Ehrenstein, Franz Evers, Gustav Falke, Ludwig Finckh, Cäsar Flaischlen, Irene Forbes-Mosse, Leo Greiner, Otto Erich Hartleben, Walter Hasenclever, Adolf von Hatzfeld, Max Herrmann,...
"Shadow and Light" by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible...
"Bastien Lepage" by François Crastre (translated by Frederic Taber Cooper). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
"War" by Pierre Loti (translated by Marjorie Laurie). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...