The bold and visionary text that christened cinema "the Seventh Art." Canudo passionately argues that cinema is the total synthesis of the arts of space (architecture, sculpture, painting) and time (music, poetry, dance). A fundamental manifesto that gave cinema its artistic and intellectual status.

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Considered one of the great 19th-century novels in Portuguese, Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas breaks with narrative conventions to offer a brilliant satire on Brazilian society, bourgeois hypocrisy, and the human condition. Narrated by a deceased man with mordacity and lucidity, this work inaugurates modern realism in Latin American literature.

This accessible edition is part of the Peyrusse Historika collection, adapted for readers with reduced vision.

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Can the religious vocation resist the power of desire and beauty?

Pepita Jiménez, Juan Valera's most famous work, tells the story of Luis de Vargas, a young seminarian whose faith is tested when he meets the young widowed Pepita, his father's fiancée. Set in a bright and socially restricted Andalusia, the novel elegantly unfolds the tensions between passion, duty, and convention through a refined and deeply psychological style.

This edition, adapted for readers with reduced vision, features a clear and accessible layout, respecting the literary richness of the original and meeting the visual accessibility standards defined by the Peyrusse Historika collection.

Part of the proceeds from this edition are donated to social and cultural projects.

Can love flourish in times of persecution and imperial decline?

Set in Nero's Rome, this historical novel follows the romance between a Roman patrician and a young Christian woman, as Christianity begins to challenge the empire. A work of faith, moral conflict, and spiritual transformation in an age of violence.

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A masterful selection that brings together ten unforgettable stories by H.G. Wells, a key figure in fantasy literature, science fiction, and social satire. This anthology offers a journey through his most intense atmospheres: from mystery and Gothic horror to adventure, scientific speculation, and philosophical reflection.

Includes:

1. The Country of the Blind – Allegory and adventure in an isolated valley where vision is a heresy.
2. The Magic Shop – An unusual shop that transforms reality with an undercurrent of social criticism.
3. The Red Room – A psychological horror experience in a haunted room.
4. The New Accelerator – A Scientific Experiment Turns Seconds into Eternities.
5. Plattner's Story – A man returns from another dimension with an impossible mystery.
6. Into the Abyss – Diving into the depths of the sea and encountering the unknown.
7. The Valley of the Spiders – Pursuit and danger in a desolate place.
8. The Star – A cosmic catastrophe of disturbing beauty.
9. The Stolen Bacillus – Satire on paranoia in the face of scientific progress.
10. The Man Who Could Work Miracles – Humor and reflection on absolute power.

Ten stories where H.G. Wells's visionary imagination explores the boundaries between the real and the fantastic, the possible and the unsettling. This anthology invites you to cross mysterious thresholds, witness warlike futures, and delve into scientific obsessions, intimate tragedies, and apocalyptic visions.

Includes:

1. The Door in the Wall – Nostalgia, mystery, and fate in a memory that haunts a lifetime.
2. Land battleships – Prophetic anticipation of mechanized warfare.
3. The extraordinary case of Davidson's eyes – Altered perception reveals a distant world.
4. The flowering of a strange orchid – A botanical terror with a deadly scent.
5. The Crystal Egg – A mysterious object that connects Earth to Mars.
6. The Cone – Revenge and violence in an oppressive industrial environment.
7. Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland – An encounter with wonder tinged with melancholy.
8. Pollock and the Porroh Man – Magical realism and African superstition in a story of destiny.
9. A Dream of Armageddon – A dream vision of an inevitable end of the world.
10. The Moth Mansion – Scientific rivalry turns into fatal obsession.

In this third installment of the Essential Stories, H.G. Wells displays his wit in stories where science blends with irony, adventure intersects with the improbable, and imagination explores new horizons. A collection that combines narrative experimentation, biting satire, and fantastical speculation, offering a varied portrait of Wells's talent.

Includes:

1. Mr. Ledbetter Says Goodbye – Moral satire with an unexpected adventure twist.
2. An Honest Deal – Humor and economic speculation surrounding a curious ostrich business.
3. Davidson’s Story – A deep dive with mounting dramatic tension.
4. On the Avenue – Scientific mystery and danger at a remote observatory.
5. The Haunted Chamber – A mystery that mixes science and superstition.
6. Jimmy Goggles the God – Underwater discovery and clash of cultures.
7. The Apple – Satirical fable about ambition and forbidden knowledge.
8. Mr. Brisher's Search for Truth – Greed and humor in the hunt for treasure.
9. A Dream of Armageddon – A Political Vision of a Catastrophic Future.

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Griffin, a brilliant young scientist, unlocks the secret of invisibility—and is trapped inside his own experiment. Faceless and unmoored from identity, he hides in a quiet English village as genius curdles into paranoia and violence. The Invisible Man is a scientific thriller that exposes how fragile morality becomes when no one is watching. With razor-edged irony and clinical precision, Wells dissects power, isolation, and the limits of personal responsibility. A gripping, unsettling modern classic that anticipates today's debates on surveillance, ethics, and unrestrained science.

A Victorian inventor dares to cross the frontier of time and awakens in an unimaginable future: a world of childlike beauty and underground shadows, where the Eloi live on the surface and the Morlocks rule from below. The Time Machine is once an adventure, a social fable, and a scientific warning. HG Wells blends wonder and satire to probe class tensions, the fate of civilization, and the cost of progress. Swiftly paced and wildly inventive, this cornerstone of science fiction still confronts every new reader with a haunting question: what endures when time erodes everything?

Cylinders crash from the sky. From within, towering tripods rise and a cold, methodical enemy advances. London and its outskirts become a landscape of flight and awe as an unnamed narrator records the collapse of certainties—empire, science, faith in progress. The War of the Worlds fuses relentless action with a fierce criticism of colonialism and human arrogance. With indelible images—the heat-ray, the black smoke—Wells invents the alien invasion as a mirror to our own conquests. A visionary classic whose urgency never fades.

The work that codified and structured classical ballet as we know it. Blasis establishes with scientific rigor the positions, movements, and technique that form the basis of academic dance. It is the founding text of ballet, an indispensable manual that remains the reference for dancers and choreographers around the world.

Delve into the absurd and irreverent humor of Manuel A. Sánchez with this collection of 12 short stories of absurd humor.
From a driving test in the Back to the Future DeLorean to a classic ghost unhinged by a modern family and their traumas (a twist on Canterville), each story takes the everyday to the limits of the absurd.
If you're looking for unexpected laughs and situations that defy logic, this collection of biting wit is for you. Prepare to question everything, except the power of humor!

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In a futuristic London, Graham, a man plagued by a strange form of insomnia, falls into a deep sleep that lasts for more than two centuries. Upon awakening, he discovers that he has become the unwitting master of the world: his wealth, accumulated during his slumber, has granted him absolute power over a society ruled by oligarchies and dominated by astonishing—and oppressive—technology. Caught between rebels and rulers, Graham must decide whether he will become the savior of an enslaved humanity or a cog in his own prison. One of HG Wells's most intense visionary novels, and a precursor to modern dystopia.