Todos somos escapistas

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

Una niña encuentra un ratoncito de campo en un cubo, entre los tomates que acaba de recolectar. Lejos de asustarse, le encanta su descubrimiento y adopta al animalito como mascota. Le gusta tanto su nueva adquisición que el ratoncito acompaña a la niña al colegio, bien protegido en una cajita dentro de su cartera. Con el tiempo el animal demuestra ser mucho más inteligente y hábil de lo que cabría haber esperado. Por una serie de circunstancias que el lector no tardará en descubrir, el roedor entrará en contacto con una serie de ratones de ciudad con los que se establecerá una...

Alebrijes came out of the most horrendous nightmares of the human being, and on a dark night they jumped into the workshop of the artisans and from there they soon went out into the streets and dispersed in the cities, in the towns and even in the hills and jungles, Where they hide and lurk with their claws and fangs ready to jump over their prey. No one should feel safe from them, for it is possible to find them suddenly in the most unexpected places, even in the pages of the books where they have made their nest. Proof of this are the fantastic stories that are told here about those...

«La madre Naturaleza» tiene una continuidad temática y cronológica con otra novela de Pardo Bazán: «Los Pazos de Ulloa», una continuidad que la autora propone incluso en el subtítulo de esta obra: 2a parte de «Los Pazos de Ulloa». La tesis de esta novela es la invocación a la cultura, y en concreto a la religión, el naturalismo cristiano, frente al imperio de la naturaleza desordenada y sin control.