Resultados para "James" en Literatura de género

En La bestia en la jungla, de Henry James, John Marcher vive obsesionado con la certeza de que un hecho extraordinario —terrible o sublime— lo aguarda en algún momento de su existencia. Solo May Bartram conoce su secreto y acepta acompañarlo en esa inquietante espera. Pero mientras los años pasan, la verdadera amenaza quizá no esté afuera… sino en aquello que ambos dejan vivir.

The Great Gatsby is a classic novel of ambition, illusion, wealth, longing, and disillusionment in the glittering world of the Jazz Age. The story follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire known for his extravagant parties, and his obsessive dream of reclaiming a lost love. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the novel reveals a society dazzled by money, status, beauty, and pleasure, while quietly exposing the emptiness and moral decay beneath its surface.

In the Los Angeles suburbs, the Crawfords seem like the average American family. Leo is a rising star in advertising. His wife, Rose, is brilliant, restless, and pregnant with their second child. Their teenage daughter, Melinda, is already leaning toward rebellion. Then Rose vanishes during a family vacation. When she comes back, she’s not the same.

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

Drew Tucker is gone. The man Ayda Hanagan loves has disappeared into the darkness once again, his mind buried in the torture of grief, his body cold and hard, and his heart completely switched off. Nothing matters to him anymore. Not his brothers, his club, and definitely not the woman he vowed...

Loyalty is dying. Trust has been extinguished. Too many enemies are waiting at every turn, wanting the blood of The Hounds of Babylon MC and everyone they've ever loved. With nowhere left to run, Drew Tucker finally understands that the only way out of the war is to go through it. Despite...

'A staggeringly honest exploration of how shame, cruelty and the hunger for acceptance can make us feel sub-human. Visceral and vicious, horrifying, unflinching and unputdownable' RACHEL HARRISON You'd kill to look this good... Over three hundred pounds, Emmett Truesdale has never fit the...

Evan never imagined anyone could notice him—let alone Dalton, the son of a wealthy hotel chain owner. While the two grew up together, they lived in different worlds. Evan, the son of a maid, did his homework in the supply room while Dalton lived a life of leisure. When their paths cross one fateful day, they find themselves drawn to each other as they navigate loss and inevitable change.

Cuando Jennifer Easter aterrizó en su nueva vida, a cinco mil kilómetros de casa, su prima Pat la esperaba con los brazos abiertos y aquella única advertencia. Pero incluso sin haber tenido la oportunidad de conocerlo, sabía que su completa aversión por los hombres guapos hacía del todo innecesario aquel aviso. El tal James no tenía ninguna posibilidad…, entre otras cosas porque, muy a su pesar, apenas podía pensar en otra cosa que no fuera el apuesto desconocido con el que no dejaba de toparse una y otra vez desde que había llegado a Santa Carla.

Parecen una familia perfecta, pero sus secretos están a punto de salir a la luz… Cuando invitan a Tim y Louise Cutler, junto con sus dos hijos, a pasar una quincena de julio en una magnífica villa de la Riviera francesa, se imaginan unas vacaciones de ensueño: sol, una casa espectacular con una increíble piscina, viñedos y buena comida en excelente compañía.

En Los papeles de Aspern se debaten la pasión de un editor en busca de los "papeles" de su poeta favorito, la astucia de la mujer centenaria que fue amante del poeta y guarda celosamente esos papeles, y la estúpida ingenuidad de la sobrina, que se convierte en el eje de la lucha sorda y tensa entre el editor y la anciana. Toda la narración está envuelta en misterio, casi en suspense.

Una preciosa colección de cuentos de realismo mágico venidos del Japón tradicional, zen e intimista. Cuentos de tradición oral que han pasado a lo largo de los siglos de la boca de las abuelas a los sueños de sus nietos y nietas, siempre de corte fantástico, siempre con enseñanzas profundas y siempre portando la esencia de la identidad japonesa a través de su tradición.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘This book is a complete delight, not only a fairytale for adults that transports you on a magical journey of childlike wonder, but also a parable that helps you lead a better life’ - JAMES NORTON ‘Magically hopeful. This story will speak to your soul...

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Este relato corto narra las experiencias de un joven irlandés, Jimmy Doyle, tras una emocionante carrera de coches. Hijo de un próspero tendero que busca ascender socialmente, Jimmy se mezcla con sus amigos adinerados europeos, sintiéndose cautivado por su estilo de vida glamuroso. La historia sigue a Jimmy y sus compañeros mientras celebran los resultados de la carrera, derrochando dinero y sumergiéndose en el lujo. Durante una cena y posterior juego de cartas en un yate, Jimmy se va sumiendo gradualmente en la embriaguez y la ansiedad a medida que se juega su dinero.

Este relato nos cuenta la historia de Mr. Duffy, un hombre que vive una existencia solitaria y metódica en los suburbios de Dublín. Su vida, marcada por la rutina y el aislamiento, experimenta un cambio significativo cuando entabla amistad con Mrs. Sinico, una mujer casada que encuentra en él un alma gemela. A medida que su relación se profundiza, Mrs. Sinico desarrolla sentimientos románticos hacia Mr. Duffy, quien, atemorizado por la intensidad de estos sentimientos y su potencial impacto en su vida ordenada, decide terminar abruptamente la amistad.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Un día en la vida de Farrington, un oficinista dublinés atrapado en la monotonía y la frustración. Farrington, acosado por su jefe exigente y atrapado en un trabajo que detesta, busca refugio en el alcohol y la compañía de otros hombres en los pubs de Dublín. Su jornada laboral se ve interrumpida por un acto de rebeldía que lo lleva a ser reprendido y humillado, exacerbando su deseo de escapar. La historia sigue su descenso por la tarde y la noche, destacando sus fracasos en el trabajo, en la taberna y finalmente en su hogar, donde su impotencia y su ira culminan en un acto de violencia hacia su hijo.