One of stories. Goths, Erotics, Victorians, Republicans, and Blacks

The stories are always there. And in summer, for the laziest, those who put faces before novels of many pages, it is an easier option? It depends on what stories, of course. This is one selection of 6 compilations stories of various genres and eras. They are signed by names like Agatha Christie o Raymond Chandler, or the Victorians Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell. And we also have the French Marquis They said already a universal manchego like Francisco Garcia Pavon.

Complete stories - Christie Agatha

This compilation contains all the short stories written by the quintessential mystery writer, Agatha Christie. They are collected in the chronological order in which they were published in the United Kingdom. For example, Hercule Poirot first appeared in a short story in the magazine TheSketch in 1923, and that's how the rest were published: in weekly and monthly magazines.

They are one more sample of the talent of the writer and they treat from murder, robbery and blackmail cases full of suspense, even those who board supernatural themes. Some of the stories it includes are The adventure of the «Star of the West», Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, The adventure of the cheap apartment o The million dollar bond theft.

Gothic tales - Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell is one of the greatest novelists of the victorian realism. In these stories he combined the most classic elements of the gothic genre so important then: disappearances mysterious, Ghosts vengeful, knights and aristocrats with a double life of murderers and bandits, confinement in castles, curses that turn against the descendants of the one who pronounced them, implacable persecutions or painful escapes. All this with the figure of heroines also very marked by their condition as women.

Comics, tales and fables - Marquis de Sade

How not to conjure the spirit of Donatien Alphonse Francois, the Marquis de Sade for friends, in the hot summer? These Comics, Tales and Fables were published in 1788 and, although described as obscene in his day, as was all his work, the Marquis de Sade can also be considered a moralistic who denounces in them the hypocrisy of his time.

This title is a large collection of very short stories that speak to us of love and sex in multiple facets. There are from innocent adolescent loves, infidelities, amorous revenge, threesomes, perversions, reconciliations of couples, libertine gentlemen, voluptuous lovers. And that moralistic message underlies all of them.

Complete stories - Thomas Hardy

This volume brings together the four story books that the English writer published in life plus some others, unpublished or published in magazines. It includes Tales of Wessex, A Group of Noble Ladies, Little Ironies of Life y A changed man and other stories. They are mostly inspired by the oral tradition and among them are historical legends, tales with fantastic elements, tales of ingenuity and cunning, and more dramatic ones.

Republican tales - Francisco García Pavón

This book is considered the best of the writer Tomellosero García Pavón and maintains the tono manners of his best known starring the ineffable Pliny. It also has elements autobiographical and they coincide with the years of the Second Republic. Thus, the exaltation of liberties and republican sentiments also allow the memory of their vital learning.

They are also a great show of social realism described with the precise language, lyricism and good doses of humor that characterize the author. And it has not lost its validity or interest.

All the stories - Raymond Chandler

This is the only complete edition of 25 stories of the American master of detective literature. Raymond Chandler began to publish stories in popular magazines as Black Mask before writing his famous novels. In them he refined his art and style and built those underworld so characteristic of his work. They are direct stories in which he puts us in that atmosphere of violence by which they move ironic heroescold and lonely culminating in his most remembered creation, Philip Marlowe.


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