Picadura mortal, está considerada por muchos expertos el primer femicrime ibérico, es decir, la primera novela negra no solo escrita, sino también protagonizada por una mujer en España. Una obra imprescindible en una colección como Pioneras, que pretende reivindicar a las primeras autoras del género negro de nuestro país. Por ello, conmemorando el 40.º aniversario de su publicación, hemos rescatado para los lectores la única aventura protagonizada...

"Lope de Vega 'single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre,' writes Roberto González Echevarría in the introduction to this new translation of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to Shakespeare, Molière, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights, and Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) is among the most important Spanish Golden Age plays. Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers on the decision of an entire village...

"The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers...

Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental fiction. It traces its origin to late-medieval education in rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine as the foundation for virtuous living. In establishing the genre's boundaries and cultural underpinnings, Narrating Desire emphasizes the crucial link between Eastern and Western...

A stunning collection of short stories-mostly dealing with the sex trade-by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolano called "the secret story," "the one we'll never know." Bent on returning to haunt you, Bolano's tales might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, or soccer, witchcraft, or a dream of meeting the poet Enrique Lihn:...

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. El Buscón nos cuenta las aventuras de Pablos, un pícaro con "altos pensamientos de caballero". En el deseo de mejorar su posición social, el protagonista sale de su Segovia natal hacia otras ciudades como Madrid, Toledo y Sevilla, desde donde embarca a las Indias en un desesperado intento de cambiar su suerte. El ingenio y la magistral pluma de Quevedo consiguen que el lector disfrute con estas aventuras...

"Winner of the 2007 John E. Fagg and James A. Rawley Prizes, American Historical Association" Sabine MacCormack is Theodore Hesburgh Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (Princeton). Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America,...

Transatlantic studies have begun to explore the lasting influence of Spain on its former colonies and the surviving ties between the American nations and Spain. In Monsters by Trade, Lisa Surwillo takes a different approach, explaining how modern Spain was literally made by its Cuban colony. Long after the transatlantic slave trade had been abolished, Spain continued to smuggle thousands of Africans annually to Cuba to work the sugar plantations....