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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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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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José María de Pereda es uno de los grandes novelistas españoles de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Manuel Marañón fue no solo su amigo «más querido», sino también su alter ego según nos dice en una carta del 5 de febrero de 1895. Este intenso epistolario, que se daba por perdido, se compone de más de 260 cartas que Pereda escribió a Marañón y que fueron conservadas por la familia del destinatario en el archivo de la Fundación Cigarral...
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"In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe." -New York Times Book Review
"His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality." - San Francisco Chronicle
"There's a stainless steel sheen to Cooper's sentences that is...
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El protagonista de la novela, Werther, es un joven de carácter sensible y pasional que se enamora locamente de Charlotte, una mujer que se halla comprometida a otro hombre. Werther es un hombre apuesto que suscita el interés de muchas otras mujeres, pero él está enamorado de Charlotte, quien no lo ama, y a pesar del intenso dolor que le causa el amor no correspondido, Werther desarrolla una amistad íntima con ella e incluso posteriormente, con...
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The Nobel Prize—winning author of Thérèse Desqueyroux shares fascinating insights through correspondence with Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, and others.
Best known as France's great Catholic novelist, François Mauriac was also a playwright, poet, critic, journalist, and member of the Académie Française. He was an influential public intellectual who criticized the Catholic church for supporting Francisco Franco and opposed French rule in Vietnam....
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Este diario es mi cuarto libro, una colección de veinte composiciones que representan el pensamiento y las certezas de nuestra era moderna. Historias sobre un pasado no muy lejano que podría identificarse con la realidad actual, el presente no reseñado periodísticamente, personas que no tienen representaciones públicas comunes, demasiado ocupadas en cierto sentido pensando en lo que nunca podrían hacer, hasta lo que le fue quitdo para no significar...
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The study of Paul and his letters can be exciting, challenging, and life-changing, but only if it is done well and only if students achieve more than a basic familiarity with the subject. This is exactly what Pauline experts Bruce W. Longenecker and Todd D. Still accomplish with their new textbook aimed at college and seminary level courses on Paul and his writings.
Longenecker and Still bring decades of study and expertise to Thinking through Paul,...
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The book of Ephesians is a letter written by the apostle Paul to the church in Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It is believed to have been written during Paul's imprisonment in Rome around AD 60-62.The letter is addressed to both Jewish and Gentile believers in Ephesus and emphasizes the unity of the Church, which is the body of Christ. Paul also emphasizes the spiritual blessings that believers have in Christ, such as redemption,...
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This collection of personal correspondence provides a rare window into the private life of the toweringnineteenth-century philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche was the most iconoclastic philosopher of modern history. He is known to the world as the scathingly brilliant provocateur behind such foundational works as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Twilight of the Idols. This was Nietzsche as he addressed himself to the public. But in this...
12) Dear Intern
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Everyone makes mistakes-especially in their first job. Cringe and commiserate with the everyday missteps and epic workplace screwups in this collection of self-confessed blunders from disaster‑prone‑yet‑good‑intentioned interns finding their footing in professional settings.
All tenured professionals know that detours and mishaps are an essential rite of passage en route to a successful career-but that doesn't make them any less funny. This...
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A great critic's quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence
In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism.
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An Introduction to the Theology and Themes of 2 Corinthians by Dane C. Ortlund
Best known for its interpersonal, emotionally raw, and pastorally distressed tone, 2 Corinthians is one of Paul's most distinctive epistles. In this letter to his complicated church in Corinth, Paul aims to expand on the deeply paradoxical nature of the Christian life. The importance of understanding this key doctrine makes 2 Corinthians an ideal study for believers today.
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15) The Earthly Tent
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Our mind and our body are the two main elements used by the evil forces that dominate our world to control humankind.Mind and body are our two most important shelters we go to hide and protect ourselves against the challenges we face everyday in this dark world.But instead of finding peace of mind and health for our bodies in this world, our minds are contaminated on a daily basis by an aggressive and relentless promotion of false and evil immoral...
16) The Times Sir
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From running commentary on growing cress in lunar soil, to fond collective memories about your mother's ancient Hoover, letter writers to The Times leave no stone unturned. This is a roundup of the wittiest letters printed on the letters page in 2023: pithy, funny and sometimes startling observations about the world in which we live. This collection invites you into the decidedly absurd, and always entertaining world of one of Britain's longest-running...
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Paul's letter to the Romans is considered by many to be the richest exposition of theological truth ever written. The majestic themes of justification by faith, freedom from sin, substitutionary atonement, and God's gracious adoption of sinners ring throughout its pages. In this classic commentary, now updated with a fresh look and Scripture references from the ESV Bible, pastor R. Kent Hughes brings clear exposition and pointed application to this...
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En Pablo, el Espíritu y el pueblo de Dios este erudito pentecostal ha redefinido los términos de la discusión sobre el Espíritu Santo de una manera que trasciende los paradigmas de hoy sobre la orientación carismática o no carismática. Sus palabras son un fuerte recordatorio de lo que Dios, a través de su Espíritu Santo, pretende que la iglesia sea... Su trabajo es un intento de dirigirnos de nuevo a la Biblia y revigorizar nuestra propia...
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How did the Apostle Paul view the Church? And where does Israel fit in? How are the promises to Israel fulfilled? In Heirs of Promise, P. Chase Sears discusses this relationship between the Church and Israel, and he explains how that affects our understanding of the Old Testament. Using a biblical-theological approach to the book of Romans, Sears argues that Paul understood the church not as a replacement of Israel, but as the new Israel--the continuation...
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Join New Testament Scholar Benjamin Merkle as He Explores the Major Themes of the Book of Ephesians
Paul wrote Ephesians as instruction and encouragement for the church in Ephesus, and it has continued to influence the church for centuries. This New Testament book specifically focuses on the believer's union with Christ and our inability to stand before God without the work of Jesus Christ and the Spirit, both of which are still essential today.
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