Novedades del último mes en eBooks de Narrativa fantástica

LA CONTINUACIÓN DE IMPERIO EN LLAMASTras Imperio de fuego azul e Imperio en llamas, Lucía Cerezo vuelve a poner a prueba las reglas de la magia y la fantasía en esta tercera entrega de la Saga Fénix y Dragon.La nueva sensacion del romantasy.Judit Bertran, El PeriodicoA veces, la guerra no se gana con espadas.A veces se gana con una mano extendida, una sombra compartida, una verdad susurrada al oido:No hay tormentas eternas, solo almas lo bastante fuertes como para atravesarlas.Cuando Eda llego al mundo, Skylar OHara volvio a sentir los latidos de su propio corazon que habia permanecido inerte durante siglos. Sin embargo, ahora la jinete corre peligro: la Dama ha vuelto y no parara hasta hacerse con la magia de Eda y el poder de todo el imperio. La guerra esta a punto de comenzar y solo las alianzas mas imposibles, las bestias ancestrales y los secretos enterrados podran salvar el imperio de su destino.Sobre la saga Fenix & Dragon han dicho:Un mundo fascinante, repleto de detalles, atmosferas y criaturas inolvidables. @saraasjournalSobre Lucia Cerezo han dicho:La Sarah J. Maas española. @Mary.kate.reads

Tales from the Silent Garden – The anthology I-VBy Evelyne DLórienAt the edge of the waking world lies a garden where silence blooms, where lanterns glow with forgotten memories, and where every peta

El ganso Mandarino, presidente de las aves del parque, pone un AVISO a los humanos riñéndoles por no cuidar la Naturaleza. Los humanos dejan de ir al parque, su ausencia es preocupante. Cuca, una oca muy cotilla, se entera de todo lo que esta pasando: un mal invisible, el coronavirus, esta causando mucho dolor a los humanos.Hay esperanza y despedida.

El Horla es uno de los relatos más inquietantes de Guy de Maupassant y un clásico del terror psicológico. A través de un diario íntimo, el protagonista describe su progresiva pérdida de control frente a una entidad invisible que amenaza su cordura. Ambigua, perturbadora y profundamente moderna, esta obra explora los limites entre la locura y lo sobrenatural, convirtiendose en un referente del horror psicologico.

Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition to the genre Daily MailThis startling alternative history takes us to a newly-imagined world... The result is a vivid, ferocious adventure Kim Stanley-RobinsonA highly original, vividly-imagined fantasy Roman Empire where oil is power Ruth DownieLOVE READING SCIFI/FANTASY BOOK OF THE MONTHA Female Gladiators Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End EmpiresIn an oil-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow a gladiatrix turned governess must rescue Livy, the child she never meant to love, a girl who could tear down the world.When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training shed sworn to forget in order to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has tried not to think of as her own.Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine.Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killeror risk everything for the child who might call her mother.She is the Sword.

There are houses that are not empty, only quietwaiting for someone who remembers how to listen.Songs Written in Moonlight V: The House Where Silence Learned to Breathe is a gentle, atmospheric fantasy story about memory, grief, and the healing power of stillness. Set in a forgotten house at the edge of a moonlit clearing, this book follows a quiet journey through listening rooms, breathing walls, and lantern-lit memories that refuse to fade.Written in lyrical, soothing prose, the story unfolds like a slow walk through silence itself. Dust remembers warmth, mirrors hold unspoken sorrow, and lanterns dream of voices long gone. This is not a story of fear or urgency, but of patienceof allowing silence to soften, to breathe, and to dream again.Perfect for evening reading, moments of calm, or winding down before sleep, this book offers a comforting pause from the noise of the world. Readers who love dreamlike fantasy, poetic storytelling, and gentle magical realism will find a quiet refuge within these pages.Songs Written in Moonlight continues as a series of modern bedtime stories for adultssoft, reflective, and written for nights that ask nothing but attention.

A gothic fairytale about echoes, silence, and the courage it takes to let the final song be heard.After midnight, the Silent Garden holds its breath.When Maren returns to the place she once fled, the garden awakensnot with light, but with memory. The bells that once rang at midnight have long fallen silent, their final song unfinished, their echoes trapped between shadow and stone. But silence cannot hold forever what was forged from truth.Drawn back by a quiet hum beneath her ribs, Maren is led to the abandoned bell tower, the orchard of silent trees, and the echo of the Bellmaker who never left. There, she discovers a crown shaped from broken bells and a role she was never meant to escape.The Bells That Rang After Midnight is a tender, haunting story about:unfinished promises and lingering echoeslove that survives as memoryand the beauty of endings that allow something to finally restWritten in lyrical, atmospheric prose, this ninth volume of Tales from the Silent Garden unfolds like a whispered requiemsoft, sorrowful, and ultimately whole.Perfect for readers who love poetic fantasy, gothic melancholy, and emotionally resonant tales where silence speaks louder than sound.

RUNNER-UP: Comedy Women in Print PrizeParis, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalids life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for womens rights, she struggles to reconcile her political ideals with the realities of motherhood.Cairo, 1966. After being publicly shamed when her relationship with a bisexual boyfriend is revealed, Fatihas daughter is faced with an impossible decision. Should Yasminah accept a life she didnt choose, or will she leave her home and country in pursuit of independence?Bristol, 2011. British-born Nadia is battling with an identity crisis and a severe case of herpes. Feeling unfulfilled (and after a particularly disastrous one-night stand), she moves in with her old-fashioned Aunt Yasminah and realises that she must discover her purpose in the modern world before its too late.Following the lives of three women from the Bin-Khalid family, Daughters of the Nile is an original and darkly funny novel that examines the enduring strength of female bonds. These women are no strangers to adversity, but they must learn from the past and relearn shame and shamelessness to radically change their futures.

Have you heard the tale of A Little Mermaid who was actually male? What if Little Red Riding Hood was in fact known as the infamous roaming rebel Robin Hood? Did you know there is a legendary knight, on the eternal quest to save her best friend, helping anyone whos in plight? And cant Snow White live happily with all her 7 partners?Who even decides what makes one a villain or not? And what if fairytales were a lot more feminist & queer than you thought?Dive into these old stories revisited and reconsider the narrative.Definitely aimed at adult audience and your inner child, not actual children.

The Secret Garden is one of the most cherished novels in childrens literature. Through the transformation of a neglected garden and wounded children, Frances Hodgson Burnett explores emotional healing, natures restorative power, and compassion. Gentle, uplifting, and timeless, this novel continues to inspire readers of all ages.

A poetic gothic fairytale about longing, memory, and the quiet courage it takes to let dawn rise after endless night.In the heart of the Silent Garden, where time has forgotten how to move and shadows guard old promises, an ancient lantern continues to burn. Its flame has waited centuriessteady, patient, refusing to fade.When a lone wanderer follows its call, they awaken more than light. From the glow emerges a fragile being made of dawn itselfa fragment of a sunrise that was never allowed to rise. Together, they must seek the Keeper of Broken Midnights and uncover a truth buried beneath loss, sacrifice, and unfulfilled love.The Lantern That Waited for Dawn is a hauntingly tender tale about:promises that outlive those who made themlove that waits beyond timeand the transformation that comes when night finally agrees to breakWritten in lyrical, atmospheric prose, this eighth volume of Tales from the Silent Garden blends gothic fantasy, quiet romance, and dreamlike melancholy into a story that lingers like morning light on old stone.Perfect for readers who love poetic fantasy, soft gothic worlds, and emotionally resonant stories that unfold slowly and beautifullylike dawn itself.

King Solomons Mines, narrated with dry understatement by hunter Allan Quatermain, follows a hazardous trek to Kukuanaland to find a missing man and the fabled diamond lode. A cryptic Portuguese map leads the party over desert wastes, the twin peaks called Shebas Breasts, and into frozen caverns, before they are drawn into revolt against the despot Twala under the baleful eye of Gagool. Brisk, episodic, and wry, the novel fuses battle spectacle with ethnographic detail, founding the late Victorian lost world romance. Henry Rider Haggard shaped this tale from years in southern Africa as a colonial official and farmer, where he witnessed Zulu courts, frontier violence, and the rituals of chieftaincy. His ear for languages and taste for exploration narratives supplied confident geography and ceremony. Written amid a renewed hunger for romance, and informed by his folklore interests, the book tests courage, loyalty, and authority. This unabridged Lost World Classic suits readers of adventure and students of empire alike. Read it for its taut storytelling and for the debates it provokes about exploration, conquest, and mythmaking, delivered through vivid landscapes and indelible characters.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Odyssey traces Odysseuss arduous nostos from Troy to Ithaca, interweaving the Telemachy with episodes of wonder and perilCyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso, the Phaeacians. Composed in dactylic hexameter and launched in medias res, it marries ring composition to expansive Homeric similes and formulaic epithets. Exploring xenia, marriage, and justice, the poem contrasts metis with brute force as Athena aids and Poseidon obstructs. Layered narrationOdysseus recounting his wanderingssituates the epic at the heart of archaic Greek poetics and as a counterpoint to the Iliad. Attributed to the shadowy Homer, likely an Ionian aoidos of the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, the poem crystallizes an oral tradition. A bardic milieu of seafaring communities, colonial ventures, and courtly performance shaped its themes and mnemonic art. Whether by one master singer or successive redactors, The Odyssey bears the imprint of a performer attuned to social codesoaths, guest-friendship, reputationand to the ethics of cunning in a world of shifting alliances. Readers seeking a foundational epic of adventure, moral inquiry, and narrative brilliance will find The Odyssey indispensableequally rewarding in the classroom and at leisure, and renewed with each translation, commentary, and re-reading.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1806, The Wild Irish Girl is an epistolary national tale in which a chastened English rake, exiled to the storm-swept west, encounters Glorvina, the gifted daughter of the impoverished Prince of Inismore. Letters that braid sentimental romance, Gothic scenery, and travelogue link courtship to political reconciliation, while plentiful notes on language, music, and law turn the fiction into a pointed ethnography of post-Union Ireland. Lady Sydney Morgan (born Sydney Owenson), the Dublin-raised daughter of actor Robert Owenson, wrote in the wake of the 1801 Union and campaigns for Catholic relief. A salonniere and assiduous reader of antiquaries, she wove Vallancey, bardic lore, and stagecraft into a pedagogy of sympathy, using song, legend, and debate to dignify Gaelic culture and correct metropolitan misperception. Recommended to students of Romanticism, Irish studies, and the history of the novel, this work rewards readers who value the interplay of feeling and politics. Approach it with patience for its documentary texture: the notes and dialogues cohere into a persuasive vision of love as a medium of national repair.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Beltane the Smith is a chivalric romance set in a fractured medieval realm, where a master of the anvil is thrust from his forge into a campaign of rescue, rebellion, and self-discovery. Farnols prose adopts a deliberately archaic cadencerich in "thees" and "whiloms"yet moves with brisk theatrical momentum: ambuscades in the greenwood, sieges of strongholds, and courtly wooing alternate with quiet meditations on labor and honor. Written amid the early twentieth-century revival of historical romance, the novel converses with Scott and Dumas while echoing William Morriss medievalist idealism. Jeffery Farnol, a leading popular novelist after The Broad Highway, cultivated a signature blend of swashbuckling action and moral sentiment. His affection for period idioms and balladry, along with practical familiarity with stagecraft and the painterly tableau, informs the novels vivid set-pieces and ceremonious dialogue. Farnols fascination with craftsmanshipits discipline, heat, and musicshapes Beltanes identity, suggesting why the heros forge becomes both vocational anchor and ethical crucible. Recommended to readers who relish heroic romance tempered by reflective craftsmanship, and to scholars of popular medievalism seeking a lucid, representative specimen of early twentieth-century revivalism. Beltane the Smith rewards with buoyant adventure, tactile detail, and an unembarrassed faith in courage and constancy.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Ivanhoe situates late twelfthcentury England at the hinge of Richard Is uncertain return and Prince Johns opportunism, fusing tournament pageantry and forest warfare with a cleareyed inquiry into conquest, law, and belonging. Through Ivanhoe, Rebecca, Isaac of York, and the formidable Templar BoisGuilbert, Scott stages NormanSaxon frictions and the ethics of chivalry. In archaizing yet agile prose, the unabridged text preserves his antiquarian detail, ironic omniscience, and the chronicle cadence of a fully realized medieval romance. A lawyerantiquary and master of the Waverley novel, Scott here turns from Scotland to an English canvas to test how nations are madeby memory, custom, and the claims of conscience. His ballad collecting, legal training, and immersion in medieval sources shape the books procedures: sympathetic portrayal of Jewish outsiders, Locksleys popular justice, and a recurrent suspicion that valor, severed from equity, becomes spectacle. This unabridged edition suits readers seeking both adventure and argument. Students of medievalism, religion, and lawand anyone alert to Romantic historicismwill find a capacious narrative that rewards slow reading with moral nuance and durable political insight.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set on Jamaicas north coast in slaverys twilight, The White Witch of Rosehall refashions the legend of Annie Palmer, the imperious mistress of Rose Hall whose rumored obeah and serial cruelties shadow house and cane field. De Lisser blends Caribbean Gothic with plantation romance, balancing brisk, journalistic prose with melodramatic flourish and local speech, to expose colonial power, racial hierarchy, and gendered terror. Herbert G. de Lisser, longserving editor of the Jamaica Gleaner, was immersed in the islands folklore, archives, and public life. His reportage on rural communities and plantation economies supplies the novels idiom and topography, while his bid to codify Jamaican subjectsalso courting a nascent tourist gazeinforms his shaping of the Rose Hall myth and his ambivalent portrayal of AfroJamaican spiritual authority. Readers of Caribbean history and literature, Gothic aficionados, and students of empire will find this both a gripping tale and a revealing artifact. It rewards close reading and debate about representation while vividly evoking a landscape and legend that endure. For seminar or solitary immersion, The White Witch of Rosehall delivers atmosphere, pace, and provocation in equal measure.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Lord of the World envisions a near-future world-state enthralled by benevolent secular "humanitarianism," as the charismatic diplomat Julian Felsenburgh rises to quasi-messianic rule and the Catholic Church is driven underground. In brisk, reportorial yet devotional prose, Benson fuses dystopia with apocalyptic eschatology, pitting airships and committees against catacombs and martyrdom while countering Edwardian Wellsian utopianism. Robert Hugh Benson, youngest son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1903 and soon was ordained. His pastoral travels exposed him to modernist controversies, socialist humanitarian rhetoric, and geopolitical tremors. That experience, together with a liturgical imagination and distrust of technocratic salvation, informs his Antichrist figure and the novels sacramental counterworld. Readers of early dystopia and political theology will find this novel remarkably prescient on mass media, euthanasia, global governance, and the seductions of unity. Read past its period melodrama to discover a rigorous meditation on worship and power that anticipates Zamyatin and Orwell. For scholars and general readers alike, it is urgent, unsettling, and enduring.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Rustlers of Pecos County thrusts readers into a Texas community riven by cattle theft and civic collusion, where Texas Rangers struggle to restore lawful order. Grey shapes the drama with panoramic landscape writing and taut, suspenseful set piecesdusty chases, moonlit vigils, courtroom reckoningsthreaded with a restrained romance. High-romance diction meets laconic frontier talk as the book stands between dime-novel sensation and the codifying modern Western. Terraincanyons, arroyos, river bottomsfunctions as moral cartography in a study of vigilantism, corruption, and the fraught emergence of institutional justice. Zane Grey (18721939), a dentist turned bestselling novelist and avid outdoorsman, drew this material from pack trips through the Southwest and West Texas, field notebooks, and conversations with ranch hands and Rangers. He habitually transmuted travel diaries and oral lore into narrative, fusing documentary impulse with romance and exploring how harsh landscapes forge character and law. Readers seeking a foundational Western will find brisk plotting, vivid scenery, and moral complexity in abundance. The Rustlers of Pecos County is both an inviting entry to Greys oeuvre and a revealing artifact for scholars of frontier myth, legal formation, and popular narrative.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Orley Farm turns on a disputed inheritance: years after Sir Joseph Masons death, suspicion reopens a case over a codicil that secured the estate for Lady Masons son, Lucius. Trollope follows the scandal from country drawing rooms to the assizes, tracking the canny Mr. Furnival, the ruthless Chaffanbrass, idealistic Felix Graham, and scrupulous Judge Staveley. In patient omniscient prose he blends legal maneuver with domestic life and moral inquiry, adapting the 1860s taste for sensation fiction to his own realism. Issued in monthly parts with Millaiss illustrations, it remains a subtle study of guilt, reputation, and truth. Anthony Trollope (181582), a Post Office civil servant turned prodigious novelist, wrote with clockwork discipline on trains and before breakfast. Administrative tours and electioneering sharpened his eye for institutions; acquaintances among barristers and editors tuned his ear to forensic rhetoric and scandal. Orley Farm channels these materials into an inquiry into conscience constrained by property law and patriarchal custom. Recommended to readers of Victorian fiction who value moral complexity over mere plot: a courtroom drama of rare inwardness, instructive for students of law, gender, and the making of public reputation.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.