25 años después de la muerte de Borges, Alfaguara recoge los relatos que él eligió como los más memorables de la literatura universal: Poe, Conrad, Kipling y Maupassant, entre otros, se dan cita en estas páginas. “No sé si soy un buen escritor; c
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale "Young Goodman Brown" and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest
Upon waking from their overnight camp in the mountains, four exiles from Poker Flat and a young couple traveling to the town face a snowstorm with limited provisions.
In this short story by Bret Harte, first published in the August 1868 issue of Overland Monthly, a baby boy is born an orphan in a gold mining camp in California and raised by a grizzled bunch of miners. This story helped to put Bret Harte to internationa
SELECTED EXTRACT FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS- The Complete Sonnets and Major Poems By William Shakespeare- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling By Henry Fielding- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy By Laurence Sterne- Pride and Prejudice By Ja
Straub, a contemporary master of literary horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight. Ghostly narratives of the Edwardian era, lurid classics from the pulp heyday, and modern-day masterp
A massive collection of humorous stories from America's favorite writers:The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots (1839) George Pope MorrisThe Angel of the Odd (1844) Edgar Allan PoeThe Schoolmaster's Progress (1844) Caroline M.S. KirklandThe Watkinson Eve
