Ray Bradbury
Four classics of the imagination from one of America’s most beloved authors–including the complete Martian Chronicles.

A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. To explore the worlds of his books, his astonishing futures and haunting pasts, is to rediscover the wondrous possibilities of life. This Library of America edition gathers four of his greatest works in a single volume. Here is The Martian Chronicles in the complete form Bradbury came to prefer, its twenty-eight linked story-chapters offering visionary glimpses of our spacefaring future. In the dystopian thriller Fahrenheit 451, books and all they contain are forbidden. Dandelion Wine distills the enchanting essences of a childhood summer, while Something Wicked This Way Comes conjures the wild, centrifugal imaginings of youthful terror, in a fight to the death against supernatural foes. Biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers a newly researched chronology of Bradbury’s life and career and detailed textual and explanatory notes.

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows Julio Cortázar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.

La obra del artista holandés M.C. Escher (1898-1972), misteriosa y matemática al tiempo, ha cautivado tanto a científicos y expertos como al público general y ha inspirado portadas de libros y discos, películas, pósteres y rompecabezas.

Este set pone en sus manos los preciosos mosaicos de Escher. Gracias a las 17 plantillas de papel, listas para montar, podrá transformar los ricos diseños multidimensionales de Escher en objetos entrelazados que componen una y otra vez increíbles patrones florales, de mariposas, lagartijas o caracolas, entre otros motivos. El libro incluye un análisis de los principios geométricos y la invención artística subyacente a estas maravillas ópticas e instrucciones detalladas para el montaje de los calidociclos.

Eric Carle

This gorgeous collection of art (and the artists behind it) includes work by some of the world’s most renowned children’s book illustrators—Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Leo Lionni, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provenson, Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart, Maurice Sendak, Gennady Spirin, Chris Van Allsburg, Rosemary Wells, and Paul O. Zelinsky.

It’s a remarkable and beautiful anthology that features twenty-three of the most honored and beloved artists in children’s literature, talking informally to children—sharing secrets about their art and how they began their adventures into illustration. Fold-out pages featuring photographs of their early work, their studios and materials, as well as sketches and finished art create an exuberant feast for the eye that will attract both children and adults.

Jorge Luis Borges
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

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Oliver Jeffers
Los crayones que Duncan ha perdido, olvidado en algún lugar durante las vacaciones, abandonado en el patio al calor del sol, tirado en el piso al alcance de su perro o que ha dejado en su bolsillo y han llegado a la lavadora, le escriben cartas para exigirle que los rescate de los apuros en los que se encuentran. Duncan se pone triste por haberlos abandonado y de inmediato pone manos a la obra para recuperarlos a todos y compensar el tiempo perdido.

Oliver Jeffers

Esta es la historia de enrique, un niño al que le encantan los libros, pero no como a cualquier niño pueden gustarle. Un día, mientras tenía en una mano una paleta y en la otra un libro, enrique, distraídamente, probó el libro. Notó que le gustaba, y aunque tenía sus dudas decidió comerse primero una palabra, luego una oración y, después, una página; tras un par de días ya se había comido un libro entero. Inexplicablemente el conocimiento que contenían los volúmenes llegaba al cerebro de enrique, y pensó que con esto en poco tiempo podría ser la persona más lista del mundo, pero de pronto todo empezó a complicarse...

Oliver Jeffers
Este era un niño que un día encontró un pinguino en la puerta de su casa...

Guadalupe Nettel
Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel’s stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that capture her unsettling, obsessive universe. “Ptosis” is told from the point of view of the son of a photographer whose work involves before and after pictures of patients undergoing cosmetic eye surgeries. In “Through Shades,” a woman studies a man interacting with a woman through the windows of the apartment across the street. In one of the longer stories, “Bonsai,” a man visits a garden, and comes to know a gardener, during the period of dissolution of his marriage. “The Other Side of the Dock” describes a young girl in search of what she terms “True Solitude,” who finds a fellow soul mate only to see the thing they share lose its meaning. In “Petals,” a woman’s odor drives a man to search for her, and even to find her, without quenching the thirst that is his undoing. And the title story, “Bezoar,” is an intimate journal of a patient writing to a doctor. Each narrative veers towards unknown and dark corridors, and the pleasures of these accounts lie partly in the great surprise of the familiarity together with the strangeness.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Enamorado de una mujer pero temeroso de lo que pueda suceder en el momento de la verdad, Cal Stephanides decide revelar su secreto. Porque Cal, como Tiresias, ha vivido como mujer y como hombre. Todo empieza en 1922, cuando los abuelos de Cal huyen tras la guerra y se instalan en América, en casa de una prima de su marido. Y las dos parejas tendrán a sus hijos casi al mismo tiempo, y éstos, en un doble o triple juego de consanguinidades, se casarán y serán los padres de Cal. Que cuando nace es Calliope, y parece destinada a encarnar la leyenda sobre esas niñas que cuando llegaban a una cierta edad se transformaban en hombres. Y así comienza esta novela, que abarca ocho décadas en la historia de una familia y es uno de los intentos más ambiciosos de escribir la Gran Novela Americana. Premio Pulitzer.