Asesinato en el jardin de Socrates / Murder in the Garden of Socrates

Son relatos que tienen como fondo social y físico la ciudad de San Petersburgo, entoces capital del imperio ruso.

With Los misterios del Plata, published in 1846 (just months after the release of Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo), Juana Manso precedes by five years the publishing of Amalia by Jose Marmol, and constitutes the first historical novel with political background ever written in the River Plate. In spite of her express intention of not being in her soul the imitation of Eugenio Sue's "Misteries of Paris," the historical veracity of the episode of Valentin Alsina harassed by Juan Manuel de Rosas does not take it too far appart from the baseness of the imaginary deeds narrated by the french...

El clásico de la literatura medieval, actualizado, pero sin perder nada de su fuerza, sus valores y sus aventuras. Amadís refunde la celebérrima obra que ha sido ensalzada por Cervantes, libro de cabecera de Vargas Llosa e inspiración de García Márquez, y le da el aspecto de una novela de aventuras moderna. Se suprimen los arcaismos y artificios excesivos, se modera la proliferación de personajes secundarios y el lenguaje se actualiza sin perder un ápice de su aspecto clásico, cada capítulo presentará las impresionantes aventuras del caballero pero con la extensión y la unidad de...

Karter Healey "Masella" has known since he was a kid that he wanted to be a detective, but he never imagined how hard that road would be. He's one of the best undercover agents on the force, but he's still not respected. If he can take down the Dom Roselli, the leader of the Roselli mob, then he'll get the respect he deserves. Genevieve Roselli may love her family, but she hates what they stand for and what they do. Once she was old enough to understand the 'family business, ' she wanted nothing to do with it. She let to create a new life, but the unsolved murder of her brother, Leo, brings...