La chica de Cartagena

Este libro es una biografía de divulgación sobre santa Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz, más conocida como Edith Stein, una apasionada buscadora de la Verdad. Todas y cada una de las afirmaciones que realiza el libro están respaldadas con textos de la biografiada o de especialistas sobre ella. La obra mantiene un tono sencillo y a lo largo de sus páginas el lector irá conociendo los hechos que acontecieron a la santa y cómo ella lo s va viviendo y encajando en su existencia, signo de contradicción permanente y de esplendor de la Verdad. Y es que nadie como santa Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz ...

A través de innumerables cartas personales, el relato de sus familiares, testimonios de militantes del PRT-RRP y de miembros jerárquicos del ejército, el personaje adquiere una dimensión matizada y precisa.

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...