The first book of integral short stories by a Cuban author was "Lecturas de Pascuas" by Esteban Borrero, published in 1899. For the next forty years, the genre began a slow rise on the island, and few are the authors who belonged to it: Jesús Castellanos with "De tierra adentro" (1906), Alfonso Hernández Catá with "Los frutos ácidos" (1915) and "Piedras preciosas" (1924), Luis Felipe Rodríguez with "La pascua de la tierra natal" (1928) and "Marcos Antilla" (1932), and Enrique Serpa with "Felisa y yo" (1937).