Titoli in Autori

Lessons at the Halfway Point is a deeply thought-provoking look at one man’s courageous journey to understand life from the perspective of having just turned 40. It is both a wry reflection on the past as well as an optimistic look to a challenging future. Nothing escapes Michael Levine’s critical eye, insightful mind, and often humorous spin on our world and ourselves.

Ardis Cameron mines extensive interviews, fan letters, and archival materials including contemporary cartoons and cover images from film posters and foreign editions to tell how the story of a patricide in a small New England village circulated over time and became a cultural phenomenon.

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most listeners, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating audiobook, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction. Perhaps as interesting as the facts he reveals and the opinions he records about Dickens and George Eliot, politics and the civil service are the judgments he passes on his own character.

This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three years. In it, she brought the Dove Cottage years to vivid and intimate life. She noted the walks and weather, the friends, country neighbours, and travellers on the roads. She set down accounts of the garden, of Wordsworth's marriage, their concern for Coleridge, and the composition of Wordsworth's poetry.

Compilación de algunas de las entrevistas más célebres a personajes de la cultura, la política y el entretenimiento. La entrevista es el encuentro con lo insólito, con las distintas caras de las mujeres y los hombres que poco a poco revelan las extraordinarias contradicciones que los vuelven únicos. Desde Julio Cortázar hasta Cantinflas, de Renato Leduc a El Santo, este libro compendia los diálogos más reveladores y peculiares que la autora sostuvo con los protagonistas de la escena cultural, literaria y política de nuestro tiempo; un auténtico regocijo para el curioso que todos llevamos dentro.

Octavio Paz fue un escritor tan mexicano como internacional. Estuvo activo literariamente desde la década de 1930 hasta su muerte en 1998. Aunque supo ser entre otras cosas ensayista y diplomático, en casi todas sus búsquedas (incluido sus variables compromisos políticos) latía el intento de lograr una comunión entre poesía y vida. En la obra de Paz dialogaban el surrealismo, la generación del ´27 española, las tradiciones hindúes y las muchas vetas de la cultura mexicana. Fue Premio Nobel en 1990 y Premio Cervantes en 1981.

Sumida en una depresión profunda y en una espiral autodestructiva de alcoholismo y sexo desmedido, Silvia decide volver a casa, dispuesta a enfrentarse a sus sombras más oscuras. Los años de abuso sexual sufridos durante su infancia, la confusa búsqueda por su propia identidad y las cicatrices emocionales de un hogar disfuncional estaban acabando con su vida.

Este es el audiolibro más luminoso, impactante y real que alguien puede escribir. Tras una niñez marcada por los abusos sexuales, años de eterno acoso escolar y una hipersensibilidad que en no pocas ocasiones lo llevó al borde del suicidio, Alejandro Palomas hila en estas páginas un relato sereno y electrizante con el que sobrevuela sin filtro los recuerdos de infancia, la relación sin igual con su madre, la sombra de un padre finalmente desaparecido y el poder de la imaginación y de la escritura como la última tabla de salvación.

El inclemente retrato de la vida del empedernido jugador Alexéi Ivánovich, la psicología general de los apostadores y la atmósfera decadente de las salas de juego escritos con una veracidad hiriente y de morboso realismo que impactará hondamente al lector.

Un albero disegnato da Marcello Mastroianni, la rabbia e l'orgoglio di Oriana Fallaci dietro le quinte, le lunghe camminate per Roma con Ennio Flaiano. Nella sua carriera Anna Maria Mori ha incrociato nomi altisonanti che hanno sconvolto culturalmente l'ultima metà del Novecento e di cui racconta con sensibilità e acume. Nessuno di loro però è riuscito a farle dimenticare le sue umili origini, la lontananza dalla città natale, gli anni di studio in collegio, la gavetta, il sogno femminista, la maternità. 

Un niño mira el patio de su casa de pueblo y desde ahí aprende a mirar el mundo. "El patio rojo" es la novela que cuenta la infancia de su autor, mediante escenas intensas que nos resultan extrañamente cercanas. Este chico jugando a las carreras de autos con chapitas. O la imagen tenebrosa de un gallinero que se recorta sobre la noche. O el horno de barro al fondo de un galpón gigante, donde la madre lograba hacer las mejores empanadas árabes.

The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy is the final volume in a trilogy on C. S. Lewis’s life. In this third audiobook, scholar Harry Lee Poe examines the years during World War II until Lewis’s death in 1963. This period of his life was wrought with disappointments and tragedy, including the deaths of close friends and family, the decline of his health, and professional failings. Despite these disappointments, this time was also marked by deep and meaningful relationships with those around him, including his friendship with and marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham.

At the end of World War I, young C. S. Lewis was a devout atheist about to begin his studies at Oxford. In the three decades that followed, he would establish himself as one of the most influential writers and scholars of modern times, undergoing a radical conversion to Christianity that would transform his life and his work. Harry Lee Poe unfolds these watershed years in Lewis’s life, offering a unique perspective on his conversion, his friendships with Christians such as J. R. R. Tolkien, and his development from an opponent of Christianity to one of its most ardent defenders.

Puto cáncer aborda en primera persona, literariamente y con humor el tránsito de una enfermedad que muchos ni se atreven a pronunciar. En palabras de la autora, se trata del diario íntimo de una paciente oncológica, que mezcla experiencias propias (ella superó un cáncer de intestino diagnosticado a los 35 años) y de otra gente a la que ha acompañado en el grupo de ayuda mutua Apostar a la vida. 

Este no es solo un audiolibro: es un profundo viaje por destinos tan variados como Atenas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, São Paulo o Sudáfrica, y termina en un camino empinado hacia las entrañas de la condición humana: el sufrimiento, el perdón, el amor, la belleza, la bondad y la libertad. A partir de la sorpresiva muerte de su padre, Christopher Phillips recorre el mundo y, mientras narra su propia experiencia de pérdida y duelo, nos comparte encuentros con personajes que colorean y delinean el pensamiento filosófico.

My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his myopic son into the firing line. Devastated at the loss of his only son, Rudyard undertook the sad mission to find John's grave but tragically never succeeded in his quest.

During his youth, the boy who would become C. S. Lewis formed his most basic impressions and tastes regarding music, art, literature, religion, sports, friendship, imagination, education, war, and more. The issues young “Jack” Lewis wrestled with drove him toward the foundation on which his life would be built. Lewis expert Harry Lee Poe unfolds young Jack’s key relationships, hobbies, spiritual conflicts, and dreams. Along the way, Poe points out where these themes reappear in Lewis’s later works—bringing to life the importance of his conversion and his discovery of joy.

Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1771, being one year younger than her brother William. After their mother died in 1778, they were separated and did not return to the Lake District until 1794, when they spent two happy months walking around the hills near Keswick, eventually settling down at Grasmere in 1799. The journals that Dorothy kept are remarkable for the detailed observations she makes of the surrounding countryside and people, often providing glimpses of poverty and suffering, as well as displaying her complete love affair with nature. 

The brief and tragic life of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) is told through the beautiful and passionate letters written by Charlotte to her best friend Ellen Nussey. Born and brought up in the bleak Haworth parsonage with only her sisters and brother for company, she soon obtains employment as a Governess. Having travelled abroad to study languages in Brussels, she returns to the Yorkshire moors to join her family where she writes her most successful novel, Jane Eyre.