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Resumen: Traducción al español de Caperucita roja y el lobo, de Roald Dahal, realizada por César Saldaña, profesor en la Facultad de Lenguas Modernas de la Universidad Ricardo Palma.

Resumen: Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in 1888; Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris appear only in the first section, which is also titled Soldiers Three. The books reveal a side of the British Tommy in Afghanistan rarely seen in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their betters, act the fool, but cut straight to the rawness of war in the mid-east as the British began to loosen their Imperial hold.

Resumen: First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military Gazette they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent. His vignettes of life in Brittish India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo-India at work and play, into a barrack-room life, and into the character of Indians themselves.

Resumen: After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was all just a mistake. But Jack wants nothing to do with her and continues to spurn her. Eventually Mrs. Wessington dies, much to Jack's relief. However, some time thereafter he sees her old rickshaw and assumes that someone has bought it. Then, to his astonishment, the rickshaw and the men pulling it pass through a horse, revealing themselves to be phantoms, bearing the departed ghost of Mrs. Wessington. This leads Jack into increasingly erratic behavior which he tries to cover up by concocting increasingly elaborate lies to assuage Kitty's suspicions. Eventually a Dr. Heatherlegh takes him in, supposing the visions to be the result of disease or madness. Despite their efforts, Kitty and her family become increasingly suspicious and eventually call off the engagement. Jack loses hope and begins wandering the city aimlessly, accompanied by the ghost of Mrs. Wessington.

Resumen: In Black and White is a collection of eight short stories by Rudyard Kipling which was first published in a booklet of 108 pages as no. 3 of A H Wheeler & Co.'s Indian Railway Library in 1888. It was subsequently published in a book along with nos 1 and 2, Soldiers Three (1888) and The Story of the Gadsbys, as Soldiers Three (1899). The characters about whom the stories are concerned are native Indians, rather than the British for writing about whom Kipling may be better known; four of the stories are narrated by the Indians, and four by an observant wise English journalist (the persona that Kipling likes to adopt). / Under the Deodars' is a disturbing, uncomfortable and unsettling read - as Kipling himself said, 'it deals with things that are not pretty and ugliness can hurt'. For here, Kipling takes as his subject matter the life of Englishmen and women in the Indian Subcontinent, and explores the ugly truth of what went on beneath the appealing 'froth' of club life. Instantly rejected by many as being too harsh and too critical, 'Under the Deodars' is in fact a brilliant portrait of Anglo-Indians, and their unforgiving impact upon the provincial society of Simla.

Resumen: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, profundo conocedor de la vida y costumbres de la próspera colonia británica, llegó a Londres en 1899 desde India precedido de una fama que iría incrementándose hasta alcanzar el Premio Nobel en 1907. Poeta y novelista, su talento despunta en el relato breve, en el que demostró una habilidad especial para narrar con asombrosa viveza y un agudo sentido de la observación las peripecias de unos personajes siempre enfrentados a su destino. El siguiente libro fue publicado en 1891 y recoge un amplio conjunto de narraciones ambientadas en la India colonial, un universo en el que conviven multitud de religiones, lenguas y razas con su inevitable misterio. Una sucesión gozosa de cuentos entre los que se encuentran algunos de sus relatos más famosos, como "La marca de la bestia" que revela el talento de Kipling.

Resumen: John Berger presenta una colección de encuentros vividos en la vieja Europa. Veintinueve momentos que, en conjunto, conforman un fresco de la historia de la humanidad, así como un autorretrato de su autor. El original es la realidad; estas Fotocopias nos regalan una visión literaria y panorámica de ella. Por sus páginas desfilan amigos, viajeros en estaciones de tren, campesinos, Simone Weil en su apartamento de Paris, vecinos, extraños en cafés, el fotógrafo Henri Cartier-Bresson, pintores y otros artistas... Fotocopias nos habla, con la frescura y la urgencia de sus mejores creaciones, de la esperanza, la liberación y el coraje.

Resumen: This new collection of Austen's brilliant short fiction is the first annotated edition of her short writings. The texts have been compared with the manuscripts to give a number of new readings. In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection contains many of her poems written to amuse and console her friends, and are unavailable in any other single volume.

Resumen: The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's most well-known work, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890, and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War, titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations (1903), can be considered part of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces.