Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad. A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.

Three epic poems by Hesiod, the 'other' great epic poet of ancient Greece (along with Homer, his near-contemporary). Constituting some of the earliest known works of literature in European history, the poems of Hesiod describe the creation of the cosmos, the history of the gods, the life & concerns of a simple shepherd in rural Greece, and agricultural knowledge and techniques, and all, as scholar Robert Lamberton wrote, in a voice that is "idiosyncratic, ironic, self-conscious…appropriating proverbial wisdom…and transforming it into a discourse that is as much an account of poetry as it is an account of the world." [Robert Lamberton, Hesiod, Yale Univ. Press]

Three epic poems by Hesiod, the 'other' great epic poet of ancient Greece (along with Homer, his near-contemporary). Constituting some of the earliest known works of literature in European history, the poems of Hesiod describe the creation of the cosmos, the history of the gods, the life & concerns of a simple shepherd in rural Greece, and agricultural knowledge and techniques, and all, as scholar Robert Lamberton wrote, in a voice that is "idiosyncratic, ironic, self-conscious…appropriating proverbial wisdom…and transforming it into a discourse that is as much an account of poetry as it is an account of the world." [Robert Lamberton, Hesiod, Yale Univ. Press]

1863. Carlota toma las riendas de un Segundo Imperio que se desvanece por momentos y no descansará hasta lograr el apoyo de las fuerzas tradicionalistas de Europa, a pesar de que esto contradiga sus ideales. Sin embargo, es otra la carga que soporta su corazón. Su matrimonio es una farsa: Maximiliano la deja marchitarse poco a poco, sin dedicarle jamás un solo gesto de complicidad o pasión. Carlota, rebelada contra la desdicha que intenta imponerse como su destino, se deja arrastrar por un amor desbocado hacia otro hombre sin prever las consecuencias. Constanza Murrieta, elegida entre todas sus damas como su confidente, es la única persona que conoce este oscuro secreto y, cuando decide jugar sus cartas a conveniencia, traicionará sin escrúpulos a Carlota participando en el plan para enajenarla, y tendrá en sus manos el futuro de la emperatriz y del Imperio. Una extraordinaria novela sobre amores cruzados, secretos inconfesables, intereses políticos ocultos, verdades a medias, traición y fortuna, al tiempo que un retrato apasionado de un Imperio que no logró más que avivar la llama de la discordia.

1863. Carlota toma las riendas de un Segundo Imperio que se desvanece por momentos y no descansará hasta lograr el apoyo de las fuerzas tradicionalistas de Europa, a pesar de que esto contradiga sus ideales. Sin embargo, es otra la carga que soporta su corazón. Su matrimonio es una farsa: Maximiliano la deja marchitarse poco a poco, sin dedicarle jamás un solo gesto de complicidad o pasión. Carlota, rebelada contra la desdicha que intenta imponerse como su destino, se deja arrastrar por un amor desbocado hacia otro hombre sin prever las consecuencias. Constanza Murrieta, elegida entre todas sus damas como su confidente, es la única persona que conoce este oscuro secreto y, cuando decide jugar sus cartas a conveniencia, traicionará sin escrúpulos a Carlota participando en el plan para enajenarla, y tendrá en sus manos el futuro de la emperatriz y del Imperio. Una extraordinaria novela sobre amores cruzados, secretos inconfesables, intereses políticos ocultos, verdades a medias, traición y fortuna, al tiempo que un retrato apasionado de un Imperio que no logró más que avivar la llama de la discordia.

A pleasure seeking prince, a selfish giant, and Wilde's fairy tales, first published in 1888, for childlike people from eighteen to eighty."

A pleasure seeking prince, a selfish giant, and Wilde's fairy tales, first published in 1888, for childlike people from eighteen to eighty."

"If you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on... Who could tell the origin stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? In this whirlwind tour of Greek mythology, Percy Jackson gives his personal take on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece - and reveals the truth about how they came to rule the world.

"If you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on... Who could tell the origin stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? In this whirlwind tour of Greek mythology, Percy Jackson gives his personal take on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece - and reveals the truth about how they came to rule the world.

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.