Books is Alba Longa’s editorial library: contemporary fiction, literary theory and criticism, editions of classics, and studies of symbolic traditions. Each title leads to its bibliographic page, its author, related articles and, where an edition is available, verified distribution links.
Bookshop and practical philosophy
The private cabinet: visit Alba Longa’s Payhip bookshop. The book’s language and format are identified on its product page; the language of this presentation does not determine the edition’s language.
Carlos Cantueso — micro-habits, confidence, decision-making and Stoicism; explore the editions available in each language.
Contemporary fiction
Alba Longa
- The House Next Door — crime fiction, art forgery, power and disappearances.
- Masks Always Speak with an English Accent — political and criminal intrigue.
José Alemany Puig
Philip Bates
Bernardo de Worms
- Suddenly, That Light
- Even Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
- The Secret Fire
- The Fire in the Vessel
Literary theory, criticism and narratology
- Definir el fenómeno literario — Artículos de crítica literaria, volume I.
- Definir el fenómeno literario II — Artículos de crítica literaria, volume II.
- The Architecture of Crime — a narratology of crime fiction.
These books connect with the maps of Literary theory and Narratology, where concepts lead to articles and analyses of individual works.
Editions of classics
Philip Bates’s editions combine classic texts with introductions, notes, glossaries or reading guides. The catalogue includes Lazarillo de Tormes, Historia de la vida del Buscón, Imitación de Cristo, Pepita Jiménez, Marianela and the Novelas ejemplares.
View Philip Bates’s profile and the classical editions.
Map of connections
Continue through Authors to place each book within a body of work; through Works to explore periods and traditions; through Articles to reach the studies; or through Crime fiction, Narratology and Literary theory to follow the main critical routes.