The union between elves and people was concluded for the first time in the century. Now is the end of the magical strife. The king of elves and the mortal count managed to make friends. But from behind the sea, the bride of the Count Amaranta arrived, and the king of elves realized that her love was for him more expensive than the peace with mortals. He begins to pay court to Amaranta, bringing her gold roses and magic gifts. And the Queen of Fairies and Dragons wants to destroy a rival.

The king of elves kidnapped Amaranta. Now she is his captive and sweetheart. Probably she is destined to become the queen of elves. But the Queen of Fairies does not give up, and intrigues against the rival. The dangerous magical secrets are waiting for Amaranta in the castle of elves.

Janet has fallen in love with a beautiful elf named Tamlane. So how do we pluck him from the clutches of the fairies’ queen? Tamlane is strong, but not free. The armor of dragon scales he once stole gives him the power to turn into a dragon, but it also shackles him with enchantments. The queen of the fairies holds a tournament. Janet must sneak into it to save her lover.

Princess Marianne fell in love with an elf she saw at a tournament. Alas, Marianne is not free. She already has a fiancé. The elf has entered into a duel with her fiancé without warning of the law of the magical world, which can separate the lovers for a century if the rival dies. Marianne is kidnapped by ice dragons and taken to the castle beyond the clouds, where the queen of the fairies, also subject to the law of one century before marriage, is languishing in prison.

This book revisits the claim that a key dimension of cultural modernity – understood as a turn to the autonomy of the signs and the erasure of the 'face of man' - arose in the mid-nineteenth century. It presents an alternative to that obsession, focusing instead on the aesthetic appreciation of forms through which connections are realised across place and time. The book is one of few to offer a comparative approach to numerous major writers and artists of this period over diverse countries. Specifically, the comparative approach overcomes the constitutively ambiguous relation between the modern and the Hispanic. The Hispanic is often imagined as at once foundational for and excluded from the modern world. Its reincorporation into the story of the mid-century unsettles the notion of modernity. The book offers instead an experiment in writing, tracing commonalities across place and time, and drawing on mid-century expressions of such likenesses.

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This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost, the textual figure of metaphor and history, in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer

The dialectic between national literary production and the rise of a group of writers with cosmopolitan sympathies is the aim of this book, concentrating on Rushdie's novels and journalism.