Resultados para "The Magic" en Narrativa literaria

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality.

¿Te imaginas que el día de tu cumpleaños desaparece del calendario? Eso es lo que le ha pasado a Edu. Las Autoridades han decidido eliminar un día del calendario y la fecha elegida ha sido su cumpleaños. Así que Edu se ha quedado anclado en los diez años y sin fiesta de cumpleaños. Así...

Seguite i ciliegi in fiore per trovare la magica libreria Sakura, lì vi aspetterà il libro giusto per ritrovare l’armonia e superare le fatiche dell’anima. Affrettatevi, perché tutto durerà solo finché i ciliegi saranno in fiore! Tra i petali che danzano nell’aria c’è un luogo diverso da qualsiasi altro e un paradiso per gli amanti dei libri. Solo durante la fugace stagione della fioritura dei ciliegi appare la libreria avvolta nel mistero, dove le storie prendono vita e i ricordi si mescolano alla fantasia.

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet.

En 1610, en Logroño, han sido condenadas a la hoguera once personas acusadas de brujería. Sin embargo, amplias zonas del señorío de Vizcaya y Navarra siguen sufriendo la presencia del demonio y sus secuaces… Para tranquilizar al pueblo, el Santo Oficio envía a Alonso de Salazar y Frías...

Esta es la historia de Hans Castorp, un joven y modesto ingeniero que llega a un sanatorio ubicado en los Alpes suizos para visitar a su primo. La estancia que preveía corta se dilata en el tiempo y acaba formando parte de esta nueva forma de vida en la que se relativiza el transcurso del tiempo. Sentado en el balcón del sanatorio y envuelto en una manta, Hans reflexiona acerca de la vida, la muerte y el amor. El resultado es una de las grandes obras maestras de la literatura universal.

Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.

"El verano en que cumplió quince años, Melanie descubrió que era de carne y hueso". Con este arranque empieza La juguetería mágica, una de las mejores y más célebres obras de Angela Carter: una novela iniciática sobre el despertar a los misterios del cuerpo y del alma y sobre el siempre...

This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and naïve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormously successful and cemented Angela Carter's status as one of England's greatest and most daring writers.

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences.

As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.

Esta novela muestra la desilusion de un joven idealista cuando todo lo que creia acaba siendo destruido. La ironia es que cuando entra a un convento de cartujo, en busca de paz, ni siquiera alli la logra. Es una obra de gran belleza, con una vision lírica del mundo.

Así arranca esta intensa aventura de realismo mágico que, a través de un viaje a las memorias de la abuela Amelia, nos cruza con personajes tan alucinantes como Serapio, un valiente perro; Domingo, un héroe en forma de machete; o el mismísimo pueblo ardiente de Las Choapas, en el borde de Veracruz con Tabasco. A quienes decidan adentrarse en sus calles de tierra, llenas de pasión, rencor, odio, amor y, sobre todo, perdón, los espera un rompecabezas armado con una entrañable destreza narrativa, que nos recuerda la mágica pluma de Laura Esquivel o Sofía Segovia.

"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it." Raphael, a failed writer, deep in debt, and unrequited in love, is about to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Just in time, he discovers the "Magic Skin" in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant every wish but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of 19th century France.

This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

The Magic Story: Unlocking the Secrets to Success and Self-Transformation** by Frederick van Rensselaer is a timeless tale that blends inspiration with profound life lessons.

In 1921 Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams and suddenly the man is on the streets - barely ahead of a lynch mob gathering behind him. Accused of rape, aspiring magician Joe is on the run for a crime he didn't commit - and the woman whose scream implicated Joe must search for the courage to exonerate him.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

Three smart young women - the scholarly Ruth, her poet roommate Lucy, and their exotic, provocative neighbor Anna - are obsessed with games of all kinds. They’ve devoted themselves to both the academic study of play and the design of games based on the secret history of the neighborhood around Columbia University, from Grant’s Tomb to the former insane asylum that once stood where the campus is now.