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Rita goes to Egypt to meet up with her Uncle Daniel, who is working on some excavations, but due to a terrible misunderstanding, Rita fails to find the person her uncle has sent to meet her and joins a band of robbers who are looking for the same treasure as her Uncle Daniel. A series of amusing coincidences will leave Rita passing herself off as a young archaeologist.
It is always a challenge to transmute a narrative text into images, even more so when the original text tells one of the most famous stories of universal literature. The only valid techniques for achieving a successful transition between these languages are synthesis, suggestion and connotation.
A thirst for money, danger and adventure. Wit, audacity and a love of games. Meet history’s most cunning thieves in this entertaining look at the great robberies of the past two centuries.
Rodribico is a little bird who loves being strong and having all sorts of adventures. Rodribico lives in an enormous tree, with big branches, and has every possible comfort in his nest. One sunny morning, a circus sets up camp near his nest. Of course, Rodribico has no intention of missing the chance to see the wildest animal in the world… ugh, how frightening!
There's been a great upset in the barn tonight. While everyone was asleep, someone has come in and, it is alleged, stolen the cow's spots! A new case for Roger the Mouse, the most daring detective whom nobody has yet outwitted.
Love, death, betrayal, adventure, abuse, an unknown and exotic culture... Dolores' eyes well up when she tells her story. Her life story is like the plot of a great novel.
Honour, vengeance and fate. The Legend of the Samurai lashed by the wind. 'They were times in which the ocean tanned nations and tempered men'. Year 1600, Dámaso Hernández, sub-lieutenant of the Tercios, is sailing to the Philippines, where he hopes to prosper so as to gain the hand of the girl Constanza.
Originally published in 1927, this humorous novel tells the adventures of Roque Fernandez, a dull civil servant who dies and instead of arriving in heaven, finds himself reincarnated as Jean Rochestier (Roque Two), who speaks French and has a wife and two children with whom he feels an imposter.
Albert Corner i Espiga left the Cuban war behind him some time ago, but he promised himself he would never again be that conscript burdened with poverty and misfortune, but a new man, a survivor. And using that instinct he managed to build a fortune, become part of the Catalan haute bourgeoisie and start a well-off family. These are tense times and the sparks begin to fly.