Las brujas de la reina Lupa

When a thirsty crow cannot drink from a pitcher because the water level is too low, she uses her ingenuity to solve the problem.

La obra de Afanasiev consta de casi mil cuentos tradicionales rusos recogidos en ocho volúmenes que realizó de 1855 a 1863, algunos tan conocidos como “Basilisa la Hermosa”, “La niña lista” o “El soldado y la muerte”, incluidos en esta selección de veinticinco de sus mejores y más trascendentales historias, que abarcan los cuentos de brujas, relatos de ingenio, cuentos de animales, historias maravillosas y relatos costumbristas.

A man has to face his past and his homeland’s enemies in this exciting historical novel set in 343 AD Britain. Order has been slowly deteriorating in the northern part of the Empire, beyond Hadrian’s Wall, and protection in the face of the Celtic and Pictish tribes is provided by a small, advanced but half-wild legionary unit known as the Frontier Wolves. Alexios Flavius Aquila is put in charge of this unit, knowing this is not a promotion but the end of his career. A poor decision cost him the life of half of his men, and if it weren’t for his uncle’s influence as the governor of...

Siete historias describen distintos episodios de la vida de Dolores, una niña que, antes que nada, es diferente a los demás: desde la primera hasta la ultima, el lector ve crecer, mientras descubre la virtud de su temperamento franco, insólito y arrollador.