Amantes del género policial, Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares dieron cauce de expresión a las inquietudes y solaces fruto de su común afición en los singulares relatos que toman como eje a un «detective» o investigador no menos...
«El encaje alzado de las fachadas venecianas es el mejor rastro que el tiempo, alias agua, haya dejado nunca sobre tierra firme. […] Es como si el espacio, más consciente aquí que en ningún otro lugar de su...
Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself, while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. As the provocative plot unfolds, characters are revealed and the...
Phyllis Bottome later Mrs. Forbes-Dennis (1884–1963), was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome. She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev. William Macdonald Bottome and Mary...
Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show crept into town late one night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a...
Journey To the West was written by Wu Chen-en, and is considered to be one of the four great classic novels written during the Ming Dynasty (c. 1500-1582). Wu Chen-en was an elder statesman who witnessed a lot in his life, both good and bad, yet...