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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist.Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation. By 1899, he was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement, which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of "conscious" workers. At the heart of all...

La esperada segunda parte de la trilogía «El descubrimiento de las brujas». Una vez asumida su condición de bruja con poderes para viajar en el tiempo, la historiadora Diana Bishop está preparada para emprender un viaje al pasado en el que poder encontrar el Ashmole 782 completo, el manuscrito secreto cuyos poderes deben comprender para evitar el fin de la pacífica convivencia entre brujas, vampiros, daimones y humanos. Su marido, el genetista Matthew Clairmont, la acompañará en esta búsqueda, pero viajar al pasado no es tan sencillo para un vampiro, y mucho menos a un pasado que ya...

Manda Scott inició su carrera literaria con thrillers como Hen ́s Teeth (finalista del Orange Prize), Night Mares, Stronger than Death (premiado por el Arts Council) o No Good Dead (finalista de los premios Edgar en 2003), por los cuales fue considerada “una de las autoras de serie negra más importantes de Gran Bretaña” (The Times). Sin embargo, el éxito internacional le ha llegado con su incursión en el género de la novela histórica, mediante un impresionante fresco que recrea la biografía de Boudica, la reina guerrera de los celtas, un ciclo de novelas de lectura independiente...