Titoli in Autori

"Un ángel llegó una tarde a mi casa, buscaba una escritora que le ayudara a narrar su historia y durante un año trabajamos hombro a hombro para contarla. "He visto a Dios", me dijo... Su historia, contundente, al lado del conocimiento que tuve de él durante estos años, me dieron la certeza de sus palabras. A Elías, un Ángel lo guió por su camino mientras estuvo muerto, y a mí me dio su mano para salir de la oscuridad en la que me encontraba.

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors”. Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. 

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest non-fiction: three full-length books, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry.

En 1974, una nena índia de sis anys aterrava a l'aeroport del Prat per anar a viure amb els seus pares adoptius. Dues dècades després, l'Asha Miró va viatjar al seu país dorigen per retrobar els fils de ls seva història. D'aquella experiència en va sortir "La filla del Gànges" (La Magrana, 2002), un llibre que va commoure milers de persones. Va ser tan gran el ressò que, làny 2003, va tornar a lÏndia per filmar un documental basat en el llibre.

Judith Merril was a pioneer of 20th-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, left politics, and Canadian literature. 

El testimoni íntim d'una dona embarassada, una reflexió global sobre la maternitat i la condició femenina. Una aportació poc habitual, lluny de tòpics romàntics i ensucrats de la vivència de l'embaràs i la maternitat en totes les seves dimensions, des de la més personal a la social, amb la sensibilitat d'una gran escriptora. Temps d'una espera és el diari que l'autora va escriure ara fa més de trenta-cinc anys quan va saber que estava embarassada per segona vegada. A partir d'aquest fil conductor coneixem els pensaments, les sensacions, els sentiments que, dia rere dia, es desprenen d'una dona que espera un infant.

If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds and on men was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well.

Newbery Medal winner Carol Ryrie Brink uses vignettes of people she knew during her childhood in Idaho to give a glimpse of everyday life in the early 20th century and to provide insight into her own tragic early years. 

Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, 16 years old, is traveling to Europe. She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions - Woolf, Durrell, Bergman - sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling”. Kathryn Davis’ hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination.

Un ensayo que analiza el modo en que el exceso de legislación y el aumento de la burocracia han degradado el papel de los docentes y la calidad de la enseñanza secundaria en España. ¿Han servido ocho leyes generales de Educación para conseguir un sistema inclusivo y de calidad? ¿O, por el contrario, LOGSE, LOE, LOMCE o la reciente LOMLOE han contribuido a consolidar un modelo político populista y neoliberal en nuestro país? ¿Cómo afecta a la calidad educativa la ideología del cambio disruptivo continuo, que practican tanto gabinetes de izquierda como de derecha?

No es fácil encontrar una obra que arroje nueva luz sobre un autor tan estudiadio como Howard Phillips Lovecraft, pero el minucioso análisis de Roberto García-Álvarez consigue este propósito con creces. En "El caminante de Providence", García-Álvarez desmonta muchas de las creencias, mitologías y falsas informaciones que se suelen repetir hasta la saciedad acerca del emblemático autor H. P. Lovecraft. Tan imprescindible para sus adeptos como sólido punto de partida para quienes quieran iniciarse en su mundo.

In this beautifully nostalgic memoir, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up. Focusing first on 'The Grange', where her grandfather, the celebrated painted Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces about her parents' home in Kensington Square and the Burne-Jones' seaside retreat, where Angela's cousin, Rudyard Kipling, lived across the green. 

Virginia Woolf es considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX.  

David Herbert Richards Lawrence nació el 11 de septiembre de 1885 en Eastwood, Inglaterra. Era el cuarto hijo de Arthur John Lawrence, un minero bebedor, y de Lydia Beardsall, antigua maestra, y amante de la cultura, que inculcó en David el interés por la pintura y la lectura. Inició una relación sentimental con Frieda Weekley, cuyo apellido de soltera era von Richthofen, mujer del profesor Ernest Weekley y familiar del famoso piloto Barón Rojo, Manfred von Richthofen. 

They were a family. The young father, haunted by his own parents’ disappointment, can’t manage to complete his doctorate, nor can he imagine being able to earn a living or pursue a career. Just as he comes to terms with being a stay-at-home dad, leaving his wife to provide for the family, she hits him with a shocking surprise. As the father begins to hope for a return to the lifestyle he enjoyed before fatherhood, he finally finds the inspiration to see something through to the end.

The Art of Youth is a moving inquiry into the nature of artistic prodigies who did their major work at an early age. Renowned novelist Nicholas Delbanco gives us a triptych of indelible portraits: the American writer Stephen Crane, British artist Dora Carrington and the legendary composer George Gershwin. All three lived colorful, productive lives before dying early, at an average age of thirty-five. In this audiobook, Delbanco discovers what it is we mourn in authors who pass away so young, and muses on his own life - one marked by both early success and longevity.

Best-selling author Frank Delaney deconstructs the Vampire myth through the ages, and shows us how Stoker’s 1897 novel, one of the most widely read books of all time, heightened the allure of sex, the glamour of blood, and the defeat of death in a way that continues to pulse - and faster than ever - on the page and on the screen.

After two years of waiting to adopt - slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair - a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady. Her sweet baby, Grace, was a dream come true. Then Vanessa made a highly uncommon gesture: when Grace’s biological parents became homeless, Vanessa invited them to stay. Without a blueprint for navigating the practical basics of an open adoption or any discussion of expectations or boundaries, the unusual living arrangement became a bottomless well of conflicting emotions and increasingly difficult decisions.

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and survival - whatever she is heading toward has to be better than what she is leaving behind. Struggling with her inner demons, Tanya must learn to take care of herself during two chaotic years in the working-class mill town of Port Alberni, followed by the early-nineties underground goth scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. She finds a chosen family in her fellow misfits, and the bond they form is fierce and unflinching.