El hobbit (título original en inglés: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, usualmente abreviado como The Hobbit) es una novela fantástica del filólogo y escritor británico John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Fue escrita por partes desde (More) finales de 1920 hasta principios de 1930 y, en un principio, tan sólo tenía el objetivo de divertir a los hijos pequeños de Tolkien. No obstante, el manuscrito de la obra aún sin acabar fue prestado por el escritor a varias personas y finalmente acabó en manos de la editorial George Allen & Unwin. Dispuestos a publicarla, los editores pidieron a Tolkien que finalizara la obra y El hobbit fue publicada el 21 de septiembre de 1937 en el Reino Unido.Es la primera obra que explora el universo mitológico creado por Tolkien y que más tarde se encargarían de definir El Señor de los Anillos y El Silmarillion. Dentro de dicha ficción, el argumento de El hobbit se sitúa en el año 2941 de la Tercera Edad del Sol, y narra la historia del hobbit Bilbo Bolsón, que junto con el mago Gandalf y un grupo de enanos, vive una aventura en busca del tesoro custodiado por el dragón Smaug en la Montaña Solitaria.

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one (More) of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.
Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.
An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.

The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.
June 1933, and the Edevane family’s country house, Loeanneth, is (More) polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she’s also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn’t. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.
Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather’s cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.
Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family’s past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape…

Sancho, un simple pastor que desea casarse con Elvira, una hermosa joven. Para ello, debe pedir consentimiento a su amo el Conde, y este no duda en concedérselo. Sin embargo, el día de la boda el Conde, que se queda maravillado (More) por la belleza de Elvira, decide impedir la ceremonia con el fin de secuestrar a la joven doncella y hacerla suya, ejerciendo su poder de amo, Sancho, al intentar impedirlo, se verá envuelto en toda una tragedia.

Paths of Glory is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer based on the story of George Mallory who died attempting to climb Everest in the 1920s. It was published by St. Martin’s Press on 3 March 2009. It fictionally supports the (More) claims that George Mallory, an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest — before Sir Edmund Hillary.
Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals.But what if one man had such a dream, and when he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?
Paths of Glory is the story of such a man. But not until you’ve turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.

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.”

While Homer’s existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer’s epic (More) poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.
This publication features the Samuel Butler translation, and while it strays from the poetic style reproduced by more well known translators like Robert Fagles and Robert Fitzgerald, the vision of the epics as if they were prose found in modern novels take their best form under Butler’s most capable hand.

Publicada en 1880, cinco años después de El escándalo, El niño de la Bola puede ser considerada como la réplica liberal a aquélla, acusada de un excesivo conservadurismo. Con esta novela, Alarcón, aislado y desengañado en su finca (More) de Valdemoro, se complace, no obstante, en ejecutar una obra donde resplandecen las virtudes narrativas que le habían hecho justamente famoso años antes: el vigor, el movimiento, el sentido dramático, el colorismo insuperable. Así vemos desfilar por estas páginas algunos de los mejores retratos alarconianos: el ateo Vitriolo y el campechano Núñez Muley, una de sus más enternecedoras figuras, así como Soledad y Manuel Venegas, quintaesencias del modo de ser accitano. Redactada en técnica de “doble punto de mira”, con esta novela rabiosamente accitana, desveladora de los más profundos resortes del alma de nuestra tierra, y su novela por excelencia, el Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Guadix, a través de su Concejalía de Cultura, se complace en inaugurar esta colección de temas accitanos.