Alan Roig returns to Saint-Feliu after years in the East, and finds his family in crisis. His dour, middle-aged cousin Xavier, a most powerful citizen of the town, has fallen in love and plans to marry the young daughter of the local grocer. The Roig family property is threatened by this union, and Madeleine's relatives object on different grounds. Xavier is a tragic figure: Madeleine is to be his salvation. Unfortunately she does not return his

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"David, un joven que ha pasado los primeros años de su vida respirando el aire del Mediterráneo, abandona su ciudad para establecerse en Madrid y cumplir un sueño: conocer a Ava Gardner y convertirse en director de cine. A su llegada se presenta en la Escuela de Cinematografía decidido a pasar las pruebas de acceso. Son los primeros años sesenta y en España todo un mundo relacionado con el arte, el cine y la literatura disfruta noches llenas...

This second Library of America volume of Washington Irving brings together for the first time three collections of his stories and sketches. Bracebridge Hall (1822) was published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, and centers on an English manor, its inhabitants, and the tales they tell. Interspersed with witty, evocative sketches of country life among the English nobility is the well-known tale "The Stout Gentleman" and stories based on English,...