Thomas Hardy

A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.

On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife at a country fair. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge.

A working man in a small town in England, falls in love with a newly arrived schoolteacher from a wealthy family.

In the Victorian English countryside, a headstrong young woman toys with the affections of three very different men with tragic consequences.

These heart-soaring tales of romance and tragedy are widely considered four of the finest novels in English literature.  Wuthering Heights is an immortal story of love and obsession on the stormy Yorkshire moors. The fate of the Earnshaw family is forever changed when they adopt a dark-skinned orphan boy named Heathcliff. As the years pass, Heathcliff and young Catherine Earnshaw fall deeply in love, but their passion cannot survive the pressures...

Al igual que ocurre con otros volúmenes de la Colección Mejores Cuentos, la presente antología reúne historias de los más destacados cuentistas de Inglaterra. La cantidad de grandes escritores ingleses es vasta, de tal manera que es una tarea muy ardua seleccionar pocos cuentos entre tantos excelentes. Por otro lado, el lector puede tener la máxima certeza de que encontrará en esta obra cuentos hermosos escritos por cuentistas de talento incuestionable,...