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Comellas, José LuisLa Guerra Civil Europea
Language: Spanish, History & Biography – Format: ePub

Se han escrito unos 60.000 títulos sobre la primera guerra mundial, y más de 250.000 sobre la segunda. ¿Qué aporta otro libro más?
El autor explicará con detenimiento por qué reúne ambos conflictos en una sola guerra y por qué la (More) considera una guerra civil y le aplica el calificativo de “europea”.
Si el lector espera un relato pormenorizado de los acontecimientos de las dos guerras o del periodo que las separa – o que las une -, tiene derecho a criticar este libro, pues la intención del autor es “ofrecer una explicación de lo que ocurre y de su posible porqué”.

Baldacci, DavidVega Jane y el guardián (2015)
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

A Vega Jane siempre le han dicho que nadie puede escapar de Wormwood, que más allá no hay nada, excepto el Quag, un mundo salvaje repleto de peligros. Y ella siempre lo ha aceptado así, hasta la noche en la que descubre un secreto (More) que le revela que todo aquello en lo que ha creído es mentira.
Ahora solo hay una cosa que se interpone entre Vega Jane y la libertad: el Quag, una prisión diseñada para mantener a los enemigos fuera y que hará lo imposible para evitar que ella escape, hasta el punto de intentar incluso acabar con su vida. ¿Logrará Vega Jane salvarse?

Turgenev, IvanFathers and Sons
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the “sons”) and the 1830s liberals sought (More) Western-based social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia’s path lay in its traditional spirituality.
Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol’s Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante’s Divine Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov’s and Arkady’s nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov’s love for Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Ivan Turgenev.

Baldacci, DavidThe Width of the World (Vega Jane, 3)
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

This is it. Vega Jane’s time. She’s been lied to her whole life, so she breaks away from Wormwood, the only home she’s ever known, in search of the truth. She battles horrors to fight her way across the Quag with her best friend, (More) Delph, and her mysterious canine, Harry Two. Against all odds, they survive unimaginable dangers and make it through.
And into a new world that’s even worse. Not because deadly beasts roam the cobblestones, but because the people are enslaved but don’t even know it. It’s up to Vega, Delph, Harry Two and their new comrade, Petra, to take up the fight against a foe that’s unrivaled in savagery and cunning. Not only is Vega’s life and the lives of her friends on the line, but whether she triumphs or fails will determine whether a whole world survives.
Beloved author David Baldacci delivers a shockwave of destruction and shattering revelations in The Width of the World, book three in his instant #1 global bestselling Vega Jane series.

Gomez Perez, RafaelDe Homero a Kafka
Language: Spanish, Essay & Philosophy – Format: ePub

75 autores clásicos tratan sobre la creación literaria, el trabajo, la vida y la muerte, la guerra y la paz, los diversos tipos de amores, la amistad, la libertad, el exilio, la corrupción, la decadencia, la bondad y la maldad, el (More) silencio y la inocencia…, ofreciéndonos una valiosa geografía del alma, que fácilmente despertará el deseo de ahondar en ella.
Por sus páginas aparecen, entre otros, Homero, Hesíodo, Safo y Esquilo, Sófocles, Eurípides, Aristófanes y Tucídides, Platón, Cicerón y Horacio, Virgilio y Ovidio, Séneca, Tito Livio y Marco Aurelio, Dante y Jorge Manrique, Tomás Moro y Luis Vives, Erasmo y Garcilaso, Camoens, Montaigne, santa Teresa y san Juan de la Cruz, Marlowe, Cervantes y Shakespeare, Lope de Vega y Quevedo, Molière, Pascal, Racine, Defoe y Novalis, Austen y Hölderlin, Brontë, Goethe y Manzoni, Leopardi, Chateaubriand y Balzac, Dickens y Dostoievski, Rimbaud, Tolstoi y Wilde, Pessoa, Chesterton, Eliot y Kafka.
Rafael Gómez Pérez, doctor en Derecho y en Filosofía, ha sido durante veintitrés años profesor de Antropología cultural en la Universidad Complutense. Ha impartido cursos de filosofía, historia económica, ética y literatura y es autor de numerosos libros, muchos de ellos publicados en Rialp.

Brontë, CharlotteJane Eyre
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.
The novel Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel is set (More) somewhere in the north of England, and goes through five distinct stages: Jane’s childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her; and the finale with her reunion with, and marriage to, her beloved Rochester.

Yourcenar, MargueriteMemorias de Adriano
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

La apasionante personalidad de Adriano, emperador de Roma en el siglo segundo, y uno de los más notables gobernantes que tuvo el Imperio, transciende cualquier reseña sobre su obra y figura para convertirse en fuente de (More) inspiración de esta novela excepcional, alabada como una de las obras más singulares, bellas y hondas de la literatura del siglo XX. Este inventario autobiográfico ficticio que Adriano hace a las puertas de la muerte constituye el más íntimo y magistral retrato de quien fue uno de los últimos espíritus libres de la Antigüedad.

Meurisse, ThibautMaster Your Emotions
Language: English, Self-Help – Format: ePub

Have you ever thought…about your thoughts?
Do you have a bias toward the negative?
Understanding how negative feelings and emotions work is the first step. Then we must learn how to reprogram those emotions and turn them around. A (More) happier life is possible if you follow the steps.
This program works.
Over 100,000 copies sold.
“It gives me a place to go to that makes me feel better about my present situation and gives me hope for the future.” – Kimberly
“My biggest take away so far (I’m not yet finished with the entire book) is that I am NOT my emotions. Emotions come and I – I still am who I am!” – Itzel
You’ll learn:
31 simple coping strategies
How to make your emotions work FOR you.
A formula to reprogram your mind
A free downloadable workbook, and much, much more!
The author was an introvert whose shyness kept him from getting the results in life he wanted. When he decided to devote his life to betterment, everything changed. This is his story and how he found joy.
It will be the blueprint for your transformation, too.
You’ll love this practical, no frills program, because the results are easy to achieve once you’ve decided to Master Your Emotions. Get it now.

Ryan Hyde, CatherineFavor por favor
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Con apenas doce años, Trevor McKinney ha logrado concebir una idea que podría cambiar el rostro menos amable de la humanidad. Un planteamiento ingenuo, aunque de belleza inusual, capaz de remover los credos de las conciencias más (More) escépticas y remontarlas hacia metas de un profundo altruismo. A punto de vivir la experiencia de su vida, Trevor arrastrará a una marea humana hacia los caminos abiertos de la bondad, valiéndose tan sólo de la fuerza de una tarea escolar bien resuelta y la lógica madurez de su corta edad.

Zweig, StefanDickens
Language: Italian, History & Biography – Format: ePub

È difficile comprendere pienamente cosa Charles Dickens abbia rappresentato per i suoi contemporanei. Forse solo un autentico old Dickensian poteva sapere con quale trepidazione gli inglesi aspettassero i fascicoli azzurri con le (More) nuove puntate del Circolo Pickwick. Basti pensare che la prima uscita fu stampata in quattrocento esemplari, la quindicesima in quarantamila. Quando Dickens lo lesse in pubblico, l’Inghilterra andò in delirio e le sale furono prese d’assalto. “L’effetto di un fenomeno letterario di tali proporzioni, sia dal punto di vista della diffusione che del coinvolgimento emotivo esercitato sul pubblico” scrive Zweig “può realizzarsi solo in concomitanza della presenza di due elementi perlopiù divergenti: la presenza di uno spirito geniale che riesca a inserirsi nella tradizione di un’epoca”. Pur annoverandolo, insieme a Balzac e Dostoevskij, tra i tre maggiori narratori ottocenteschi, lo scrittore austriaco non gli risparmia qualche bordata: “Soddisfatto nei confini della propria cultura nazionale, mai ha sentito l’esigenza di trasgredire la misura artistica, morale o estetica dell’Inghilterra. Non si pose come un rivoluzionario. […] Tentò sempre di raggiungere la tragedia, ma non superò mai i confini del melodramma”. Eppure, alla fine, all’“inesauribile poeta” che fu Dickens, Zweig perdona anche questo, perché “solo quando si detesta la stupida ipocrisia della cultura vittoriana si può valutare giustamente il genio di un artista che ha trasformato la più insignificante delle vite in poesia”.

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