Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to (More) be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on 30th July 2016.
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children.
While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Nacida con vocación popular y afán divulgativo, esta obra es una versión resumida, simplificada y muy didáctica de la gran obra académica. Presenta una descripción general del idioma accesible a todos los hablantes que no poseen (More) especial formación gramatical, centrándose en los aspectos normativos de la lengua. Es una obra de consulta básica que no debe faltar en ningún hogar, centro educativo o de trabajo.

Con esta cuarta y última entrega, que cubre el periodo 1894-1903, hasta la muerte de Chéjov, llegamos al final de una de las obras más importantes de la literatura en la que se concentran cuentos inolvidables como Del amor, Las (More) grosellas o El obispo que, junto a un amplio apéndice con textos de diversa índole y a relatos extensos y apasionantes como Mi vida, Tres años o En el barranco, serán el colofón perfecto para llegar a La novia, el último de los que publicó. La mejor manera de despedir al maestro, de concluir un recorrido sin igual. El camino se cierra aquí, dejando una obra de referencia. El camino de Chéjov. Chéjov completo.

La aventura de Vasco de Gama que le llevó a las Indias a través del cabo de Buena Esperanza abrió una guerra por el control de las especias y por el control estratégico mundial que concluiría con la gesta de Magallanes y Elcano: (More) la expedición que dio, a ciegas, la primera vuelta al mundo. Magallanes y Elcano: travesía al fin del mundo nos traslada toda la aventura, la pasión, la crueldad y el heroísmo de esta gesta, y nos da a conocer datos poco tratados en este tipo de obras como qué papel real tenían los reyes en estas expediciones, cuál eran las competencias de los capitanes en estas aventuras, cómo se formaban la flota que se embarcaba o cómo solventaban los problemas de alimentación y de bebida en unos viajes en los que, en la mayoría de los casos, las cartografías eran inexactas o directamente inexistentes.
En 1519 parten desde Sevilla cinco naves y 256 hombres bajo el mando de Magallanes, un navegante nacido en Portugal que rechazó su nacionalidad y fué nombrado capitán por el emperador Carlos I, 14.500 leguas y tres años después regresará a suelo español una sola nave, con 17 hombres y capitaneada por Juan Sebastián Elcano. Gabriel Sánchez nos traslada con toda su viveza esta epopeya en la que los hombres de Magallanes tuvieron que superar motines, naufragios en islas abandonadas, deserciones, batallas contra los indígenas, enfermedades y hambrunas.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma (More) surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam’s husband.
Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a “mother-daughter story” in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a “father-son story”. It continues some of the themes used in his previous work, such as the familial aspects, but focuses primarily on female characters and their roles in Afghan society.
A Thousand Splendid Suns was released on May 22, 2007, and received favorable prepublication reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, becoming a number one New York Times bestseller for fifteen weeks following its release. During its first week on the market, it sold over one million copies. Columbia Pictures purchased film rights in 2007 and confirmed intentions to create a movie adaption of the book.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
The book was intended initially to be a serious travel (More) guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem like an unnecessary distraction to the essentially comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers. The jokes seem fresh and witty even today.
The three men were based on Jerome himself and two real-life friends, George, and Harris. The dog, Montmorency, however, was entirely fictional, but, as Jerome had remarked, “had much of me in it.”

¿Hasta dónde llegaría un padre por salvar a su hija? Un thriller impactante, adictivo, inquietante, con una alta carga de tensión y un ritmo trepidante. El Paciente es una montaña rusa de emoción e intriga. No has leído nada (More) igual. El doctor Evans es un brillante neurocirujano viudo que se enfrenta a una terrible encrucijada: si su próximo paciente sale vivo de la mesa de operaciones, su pequeña hija Julia morirá a manos de un psicópata. Pero ¿quién es El paciente? Nada menos que el Presidente de los Estados Unidos. Para el médico se inicia una desesperada cuenta atrás. “Todos ustedes creen conocerme. Se equivocan. Llevo ya mil ochocientos veintitrés días, once horas y doce minutos en el corredor de la muerte. De ese tiempo he dedicado cada segundo que he pasado despierto a reflexionar sobre los hechos que me han traído aquí. Y no cambiaría ni uno solo de mis actos. (…) No soy un santo, ni un mártir, ni un terrorista, ni un loco, ni un asesino. Los nombres por los que creen conocerme están equivocados”.

The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria. There, by reason of his resemblance to the King of Ruritania he becomes (More) involved in saving the King’s Life and his Throne from the King’s dastardly brother and his allies. Woods, moated castles, pomp, swordplay, gallantry, villainy and a beautiful princess. What story could ask for more?
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Boasting a rich variety of genres, this literary collection offers 22 of the greatest short stories ever written, featuring literature’s finest authors, contextual images and insightful introductions.
Contents
THE LEGEND OF (More) SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving
THE MONKEY’S PAW by W W Jacobs
THE BLUE CROSS by G. K. Chesterton
A TRAGEDY OF ERROR by Henry James
AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE by Ambrose Bierce
IMMENSEE by Theodor Storm
THE COP AND THE ANTHEM by O. Henry
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING by Rudyard Kipling
THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Alexander Pushkin
PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE — ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG by Charles Dickens
THE HOUSE OF COBWEBS by George Gissing
LOTTA SCHMIDT by Anthony Trollope
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN by Nathaniel Hawthorne
RAIN by W. Somerset Maugham
THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE by Honoré de Balzac
THE WIND BLOWS by Katherine Mansfield
THE FLY by Katherine Mansfield
THE CALL OF CTHULHU by H. P. Lovecraft
THE OPEN BOAT by Stephen Crane
THE SON’S VETO by Thomas Hardy
THE DEAD by James Joyce