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A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of ...

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

Este libro propone un recorrido exhaustivo por la vida y la obra del gran filósofo del siglo pasado, Friedrich Nietzsche, para develar la importancia y brillantez de una obra clave de la historia del pensamiento.

Un libro tan singular como precursor, en el que el autor expresa sus experiencias sensoriales bajo la acción de la mescalina, el principio activo del peyotl, denominación mexicana del cacto, venerado como una deidad por los indios de México y del sudeste de los Estados Unidos.