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In ancient Rome, Seneca the Younger rose to power as a politician and statesman during the middle of his life. After being exiled by Emperor Caligula, he was finally welcomed back to Rome as Nero's minister. He gained significant wealth, though Seneca often despised his own standing because of his personal philosophy. At the end of his life, Seneca wrote a number of letters to the Roman governor of Sicily. From this collection of letters comes "Letters...
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Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod's yearslong endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.
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Además de inventar motores y turbinas, soñar con un mundo de naves teledirigidas y torres inalámbricas, levantar grandes laboratorios mágicos de los que salían relámpagos y tormentas artificiales y hasta diseñar aparatos domésticos, Nikola Tesla escribió mucho. Cartas a la familia, narrando sus éxitos y planes; cartas a sus jefes y patronos, contando sus proyectos y sueños; cartas a los amigos, cartas a los periódicos, cartas con quejas,...
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El libro reúne textos esenciales para comprender la obra poética de León Felipe procedentes del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Zamora y la Residencia de Estudiantes.
Se divide en dos partes: «Aposentos», en la que se incluyen versos y textos en prosa, y «Moradas», una recopilación de correspondencia inédita con figuras literarias de la talla de Camilo José Cela, Juan Larrea o Diez-Canedo.
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Como una ventana indiscreta, las cartas de Jane Austen a su hermana Cassandra proporcionan una mirada fascinante sobre la vida de la autora. Relaciones amorosas, ocasiones mundanas, visitas a vecinos, salidas al teatro: minúsculos detalles cotidianos que nos desvelan la faceta más íntima del mundo de Austen y nos ayudan a reconstruir la persona-lidad de una de las autoras más impor-tantes de la historia de la literatura. En esta original selección...
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"Schwester Teresa macht sich Sorgen um die Sorgen. Zum Glück. Die meisten Menschen sorgen sich viel zu viel. … Höchste Zeit, sich mit dem leidigen Phänomen des Sorgens mal ein bisschen intensiver zu beschäftigen. Und da ist Schwester Teresa genau die Richtige. Eine fromme Tausendsassa, die mit beiden Beinen auf dem Boden steht und dabei den Blick immer fest in den Himmel gerichtet hält. Vor allem aber schafft sie es auf eindrückliche Weise,...
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Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh's complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish to read and analyze the whole text as a literary work. Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh's letters and a distillation...
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Meanderings of the Pen, a collection of short stories told in first person by the author as she brings us into the lives of many different characters. The tales are heartwarming, nostalgic, and surprisingly entertaining. Whether they be 'beauty or beast' you will enjoy a camaraderie with them. Walk with her as she locates attention to some of the less obvious in our surroundings. Things you may have overlooked as you travelled through life. Savor...
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A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairnby the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroborosand the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy. Eric Rucker Eddison's first book, originally published privately in hardback during the First World War, is a poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Philip Sidney Fletcher Nairn, whose work was so inspired by his Scottish ancestry, life in the Lake District, and his subsequent travels...
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In this book, Michael Laitman's fascinating commentary uncovers the wisdom in the Pentateuch (also known as the "Torah") in a manner no other book has done before. Here you discover that each protagonist in the stories of the Torah is really a force within, determining your path in life. Delve into the text to enrich and empower yourself as you become the happy, confident person that you dream of being.
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Como fósforos de Lucifer propone una selección de cartas de Charlotte Brontë que nos ayuda a iluminar escenas de una vida de escritura en la sombra. Valiente, justa, obstinada y tenaz, Brontë se retrata como una mujer hecha a sí misma que busca un hueco para ella y para sus hermanas en un mundo que no le pertenece y en el que la literatura es el único camino de desahogo y salvación. Gracias a estas cartas es posible revivir los momentos más...
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"El presente volumen de la Serie Cuadernos de Humanidades celebra los cumpleaños de tres clásicos de la literatura colombiana: 150 años de María por Jorge Isaacs; 50 años de Cien años de Soledad por Gabriel García Márquez; 40 años de Qué viva la música por Andrés Caicedo. Estas tres obras pertenecientes al canon literario colombiano son también referencia literaria mundial. Este volumen comparte los textos presentados en los homenajes...
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In this collection we find two of Cicero's philosophical treatises, "On Friendship" and "On Old Age". In Cicero's treatise on friendship we learn of his belief that true friendship with someone is derived from complete honesty, truth and trust. Cicero placed a high value upon friendship and saw it as a relationship of mutual benefit in which friends do things for each other without expectation of repayment. In a related philosophical writing on the...
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Our fantasies and dreams create our reality. Most parents wish the best for their children and especially strong is the mother and daughter bond. In "Faery Letters" Pamela Erickson, a uniquely talented writer, demonstrates her love and caring for her own daughter through a series of "Faery Letters." This is a book that will be shared between mothers and daughters alike and passed down among generations of woman who will find themselves reflected in...
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Este relato, la penúltima de las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes es, en un primer plano narrativo, la historia de un soldado, convaleciente de sífilis, conversando con un amigo. La anécdota que narra el alférez Campuzano, enraizada en el tópico del engañador que termina siendo engañado -al que regresaron una y otra vez escritores consagrados y menores de los Siglos de Oro-, posee un andamiaje cómico notable. Un pequeño guiño: cuando Peralta...
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Rilke quiso publicar estas cartas dirigidas a su mujer, Clara Westhoff, donde deja de manifiesto el hondo influjo de su alma gemela, Cézanne. Rilke se empeña en pintar el mundo con palabras, y compartirá opiniones con Orlik, Paul Klee, Vogeler, Rodin o Pasternak. Hay también lugar en sus cartas para los deberes de todo artista: la sumisión a la naturaleza, la sinceridad, etc.
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Frequently the deeper dimension of love is lost with words that express physical contact. The act of making love and self-gratification has taken the place of the meaning of love. These letters attempt to express the true meaning of love. In any love relationship there cannot help but be some physical expression; be it a touch of the hand to a shoulder. There is however a far deeper meaning of love which has to do with the human spirit. The purpose...
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Este Epistolario íntimo reúne una selección de las cartas que escribió el poeta a lo largo de su obra. El volumen puede leerse como la carta de navegación del signo Vallejo. Es en las epístolas enviadas a compañeros de ruta como Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego o Mariátegui donde Vallejo devela de forma más prístina las reflexiones que motivan su escritura. A través de ellas también se puede reconstruir el itinerario vital que operó como motor...
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Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski-America's "Ultimate Outsider" Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protégé of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature...
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