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In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with lost memories fights for survival in a world ravaged by war, necromancy, and alchemyand against the man charged with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.This stunning soft cover edition includes a deluxe dustjacket with gold foil on the front and a full-color illustration on the back, beautifully designed endpapers, gold foil stamping on the box, and, by acclaimed artist Avendell, a black-and-white interior illustration.What do you think youre protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame is extinguished. There is no one left to save.Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisonerof war and of her own mind. Her friends and allies in the Resistance have been brutally murdered, their abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed.After a long war, Helena is held captive by Paladias new ruling classmade up of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers whose vile undead helped ensure their victory.According to Resistance records, she was a minor healer within their ranks. But Helena suffers from inexplicable memory loss from the months leading up to her capture, leaving her enemies to wonder: Is she really as insignificant as she seems, or do her lost memories hide a vital piece of the Resistances ultimate strategy?To recover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers on this new world. Trapped in her decaying estate, Helena's fightto protect her lost history and preserve the last remnants of her former selfis just beginning. For her prison and her captor have secrets of their own secrets Helena must unearth, no matter the cost.

L'any 1980 Montserrat Roig va viatjar a Leningrad, convidada per Edicions Progrés de Moscou, per escriure un llibre sobre el setge de Leningrad durant l'ocupació nazi. Durant l'estada a Leningrad -actualment San Petersburg-, va iniciar unes punyents entrevistes amb els supervivents del terrible bloqueig; tambe va coneixer la ciutat i els seus habitants, i en va quedar fascinada. Fruit d'aquesta experiencia es L'agulla daurada, llibre de viatges i cronica personal alhora.

Cruma (1957) i Homes i No (1958) són dues obres teatrals de Manuel de Pedrolo que van tenir una acollida notable quan van ser portades a escena. Tot i que van patir l'assetjament de la censura franquista i les dificultats que condicionaven la representacio del teatre catala d'aquell moment, van ser rebudes com a obres innovadores, que trencaven una dinamica conservadora i fomentaven la creacio d'un public nou i exigent.Deixant de banda la consideracio com a teatre de l'absurd -seguint la petja de Samuel Beckett o d'Eugene Ionesco- o existencialista, l'obra escenica de Manuel de Pedrolo es una exploracio de la condicio humana, en que son ben presents la idea de llibertat i una actitud de revolta.Estudi preliminar amb propostes de treball i comentaris de text a cura d'Anton Carbonell, professor de llengua catalana i literatura a l'IES Castellar de Castellar del Valles.

Spain''s great 19th-century poet is best known for these 2 works. Becquer''s celebrated "Rhymes" consists of a suite of 66 melancholy poems. The 6 tales from his "Legends" depict supernatural phenomena and portray everyday events from a romantic point of view. This accurate new translation features an informative introduction.

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Then David receives the offer of a lifetime: he is to write a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround his home...

In questo romanzo Niccolo Ammaniti va al cuore della sua narrativa, con una storia tesa e dal ritmo serrato, un congegno a orologeria che si carica fino a una conclusione sorprendente: e mette in scena la paura stessa. Michele Amitrano, nove anni, si trova di colpo a fare i conti con un segreto cosi grande e terribile da non poterlo nemmeno raccontare.E per affrontarlo dovra trovare la forza proprio nelle sue fantasie di bambino, mentre il lettore assiste a una doppia storia: quella vista con gli occhi di Michele e quella, tragica, che coinvolge i grandi di Acqua Traverse, misera frazione dispersa tra i campi di grano. Il risultato e un racconto potente e di assoluta felicita narrativa, dove si respirano atmosfere che vanno da Clive Barker alle Avventure di Tom Sawyer, alle Fiabe italiane di Calvino.La storia e ambientata nell''estate torrida del 1978 nella campagna di un Sud dell''Italia non identificato, ma evocato con rara forza descrittiva. In questo paesaggio dominato dal contrasto tra la luce abbagliante del sole e il buio della notte, Ammaniti alterna, a colpi di scena sapienti, la commedia, il mondo dei rapporti infantili, la lingua e la buffa saggezza dei bambini, la loro tenacia, la forza dell''amicizia e il dramma del tradimento.

Estudi preliminar, propostes de treball i comentaris de textPigmalió (1957) és una versió lliure de l'obra homònima de Bernard Shaw. Martí Jordana, famós i expert professor de fonètica, accepta la «j

Amb estudi introductori, propostes de treball i de comentaris de text a cura de Toni Sala.Apareguda per entregues a la revista Joventut l'any 1904 i 1905, Solitud va obtenir immediatament un gran exit entre els lectors i fou traduida a diverses llengues. Passats cent anys des de la seva publicacio, Solitud, una novel.la actual i colpidora, mante avui dia plenament la seva vigencia.Toni Sala, escriptor i professor d'ensenyament secundari, guanyador del Premi Nacional de Literatura 2005 per la seva obra Rodalies, es l'autor de l'acurat estudi introductori i les detallades propostes de treball. Aquesta edicio vol ser una eina per a professors i estudiants que els permeti un apropament literari a l'obra i a la seva epoca i fer, alhora, una lectura actual Considerada una de les obres mestres de la literatura catalana de tots els temps, Solitud narra el trajecte vital i espiritual d'una dona, la Mila, en l'ambit rural. Contraposant la realitat de les valls amb l'idealisme de l'alta montanya, la protagonista inicia un proces d'autoconeixement que la dura a trobar en la solitud la força per trencar amb les convencions del seu mon quotidia. El drama de la Mila ens ajuda a entendre que estem sols al mon, i per aixo mateix ens fa companyia i ens dona coratge per continuar endavant, com fa ella, malgrat tot.

Tots els ports es diuen Helena és una novel·la d'amor, de creixement i de reflexió sobre els valors i les misèries que fan que Europa s'uneixi o es desintegri. Potser l'Europa de veritat és aquesta E

Amb propostes de treball a càrrec de Carme ArenasAl llarg de la seva vida el va anar revisant i, de fet, disposem de tres versions diferents del poemari: a més de la del 1906, es va editar el 1928 i

Sis comedies preten fer un recorregut per la trajectoria dramatúrgica de Jordi Galceran, a partir de sis de les seves millors peces teatrals. El lector podrà resseguir la seva evolució des dels seus

Nosaltres, els valencians és una de les obres més ambicioses de Joan Fuster, plena d'implicacions socials i polítiques, que expressen el seu ideari personal i el dels sectors en què ha influït. Fou p

Arrogants, però també dominats; violents, però també violentats; triomfadors, però també derrotats. Entre els homes, diu Isabel-Clara Simó, «n'hi ha de tot». Aquesta escriptora de referència ens most

A Berenàveu a a les fosques, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet analitza la submisa acceptació dels nous valors del franquisme en la societat de la postguerra. L'obra se centra en un grup de set personatges

''What are you thinking, Amy?'' The question I''ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: ''What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy''s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn''t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren''t his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick''s beautiful wife? And what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war. . .

"Hi ha un moment de la vida que sembla com si ens despertéssim d´un somni. Hem deixat de ser joves. Bé es veia que no ho seríem eternament; ¿i què era, ser joves? Una tempesta tenebrosa tarvessada de

Adam, un historien, est venu du Proche-Orient à Paris il y a vingt-cinq ans, et n’est jamais reparti. Mais il reçoit un appel téléphonique : Mourad, un ami très proche de sa jeunesse, est à l’agonie.