Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists

Author	Agatha Christie
ISBN	0425205975

At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini...

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	0380817926

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars—observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family—and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the...

Author	Rachel Pollack
ISBN	0349108366

Almost a set of short stories, this novel breaks into discrete episodes, centered on identity, love, and death. Jaqe has no identity until she meets Laurie, introduced and named by Mother Night; in that moment, she knows herself, and that she loves Laurie. But once Mother Night has become part of their...

Author	Emilio Salgari
ISBN	8842513873

Il corsaro nero si interrompeva di colpo, lasciando il lettore in dubbio sulla sorte della giovinetta Honorata, figlia del nemico Wan Guld, amata dall'eroe.
La regina dei Caraibi prosegue e conclude il racconto, come un secondo tempo dopo l'intervallo pubblicitario collocato al momento di...

Author	Chrétien de Troyes
ISBN	0820308129

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval...

Author	Anabel García
ISBN	8408206826

Mi vida era perfecta hasta que ese mendrugo con cara de seductor forajido irrumpió en ella. Todo empezó aquella maldita noche en la que él se coló en mi playa privada de Los Ángeles. En ese momento comenzó mi fatal descenso hacia los abismos de la locura, pero haré cuanto esté en mi mano para recuperar...

Author	Emilia Pardo Bazán
ISBN	8437621666

"Soy solterón, y lo soy con deliberado propósito y casi diría que por convicción religiosa", así se describe don Mauro Pareja, protagonista de Memorias de un solterón, novela ambientada a finales del siglo XIX que nos introduce a través de su protagonista en la profunda transformación que...