In fifteenth century Spain, Celestina manipulates the love lives of rich and poor alike. But she always manages to do it to her own advantage.

Pierre and Eve, soulmates who never met while alive, must come to grips with their deaths and the afterlife, and when they get a second chance and are revived, they have twenty-four hours to fall completely in love with one another.

El oro del rey is the fourth installment in the series Las aventuras del Capit?n Alatriste, the most widely read novel series in the nineties. In this book, P?rez-Reverte's most popular hero returns from Flanders and undertakes a dangerous mission in Seville, the most fascinating seventeenth century city. His is charged with recruiting a motley group of brave swordsmen for a risky job involving the contraband gold that the Spanish galleons bring from the Indies.

The short stories in this bilingual anthology are from the works of some of the great masters of the German literary tradition - including Goethe, Glister, Mann, and Kafka - and offer a representative collection illustrating the development of German fiction from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries.