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After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order to bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed added not only an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand's ideas and beliefs, but a fresh and spontaneous insight into Ayn Rand herself.

El audio de una biografía que no puede perderse. Este notable poeta francés, perteneciente al movimiento simbolista, fue grande entre sus coetáneos y no hizo más que crecer tras su fallecimiento, tanto en Francia como en el resto del mundo. En castellano, el modernismo no puede entenderse sin él Incluso grandes poetas del ámbito hispánico, como Rubén Darío, Manuel Machado, Evelina Riffel o Pablo Neruda, son consecuencia directa o indirecta de la del poeta francés.

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2025 From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed. Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next...

As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book, having been translated into over 2,000 languages, as well as the world's best-selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history.

El «Libro del desasosiego», que presentamos traducido íntegramente por vez primera en lengua castellana, nació en 1913 y Pessoa trabajó en él durante toda su vida. Ésta es una obra inacabada e inacabable: un universo entero en expansión cuya pluralidad—literaria y vital—es infinita...

LPodría decirse que Isaac Asimov, el mayor escritor de ciencia ficción que ha existido, poseía una de las mentes más brillantes y creativas del siglo XX. Su estilo cuidado y accesible, y sus intereses de largo alcance en temas que van desde la ciencia al humor, pasando por la historia, le valieron el apodo de «El gran narrador». Esta es la historia del genio paradójico que escribió sobre viajes a las estrellas y se negó a volar en avión; que imaginó universos extraterrestres y vastas civilizaciones galácticas mientras se quedaba en casa entre páginas.

Книга воспоминаний Любови Евгеньевны Белозерской-Булгаковой — писательницы и литературного деятеля, второй жены Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова, — это уникальный текст, написанный хорошим литературным слогом с увлекательной интонацией, полный обаяния автора, доброго юмора, метких замечаний и с теплом описанных портретов близких и родных людей.

FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M...

What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest...

Eine Jugend in Deutschland, voller Hoffnung und voller Enttäuschung: Als Freiwilliger zieht Ernst Toller begeistert in den Ersten Weltkrieg und kehrt, für kriegsuntauglich erklärt, als bekennender Pazifist zurück. In München schlägt er sich im November 1918 auf die Seite der Revolution, wird zum Anführer der Räterepublik und erlebt deren tragisches Scheitern. Er wird geächtet, festgenommen und zu fünf Jahren Festungshaft verurteilt. Als er im Juli 1924 das Gefängnis verlässt, ist Ernst Toller eine internationale Berühmtheit.

"I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent. I have sampled every kind of human experience. I have known many of the most remarkable men of my time. I have had a long literary career after a medical training which gave me the MD of Edinburgh...I have traveled as Doctor to a whaler for seven months in the Arctic and afterwards in the West Coast of Africa." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, Giving Up the Ghosts is a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical)...

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography.

"With humor and lyrical grace," Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh, and forgiving, steeped in history and myth (San Francisco Chronicle). A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.

Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life...

DIA 5: SEGUNDA-FEIRA, 23 DE JULHO DE 2001, 5h53 "O sol está brilhando através das grades da minha janela, no que deve ser um glorioso dia de verão. Estou encarcerado numa cela de cinco passos por três durante doze horas e meia e só poderei sair de novo ao meio-dia. Dezoito horas e meia de confinamento solitário. Na cela abaixo de mim há um garoto de dezessete anos acusado de roubar uma loja: é seu primeiro delito, ainda nem foi condenado. Ele fica trancado por dezoito horas e meia sem poder falar com ninguém.

Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that "we have all a better guide in ourselves . . . than any other person can be." Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen's own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen's 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how—for over half a century—Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life.

René Guénon explore, derrière l’œuvre de Dante, une signification initiatique que la lecture profane ignore. Refusant toute grille « systématique », il montre que le symbolisme ne se laisse pas réduire: chaque signe ouvre sur des perspectives illimitées, et l’essentiel demeure de l’ordre de l’inexprimable. Plutôt qu’un traité clos, ce livre est un point de départ: il suggère des voies de recherche, appelle une compréhension vraie et invite à mesurer l’étroitesse de nos conceptions courantes.

Anita è stata una bambina solitaria, affidata alla televisione per lunghe giornate mentre i suoi giovanissimi genitori si costruivano la propria vita: batterista con un noto gruppo musicale lui, ricercatrice universitaria lei. Anita diventa adulta nei decenni in cui l'Italia diventa teledipendente, e dagli anni degli studi alle prime esperienze di lavoro le sue disavventure, i suoi amori, le sue scelte corrono parallele alla realtà che da sempre l'assorbe, quella del piccolo schermo.

Appartenente a una nobile famiglia veneziana, fin dalla gioventù Pietro Bembo ebbe modo di costruirsi una solida formazione e reputazione letteraria grazie ai contatti con l'ambiente paterno e in seguito all'amicizia con Ludovico Ariosto, con Baldassarre Castiglione e alla consulenza per Aldo Manuzio.