El médico, el rector

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

How would you describe the every day life of little girls throughout history? What did they aspire to do? What were their greatest worries? This book focuses on 33 girls that have resided on every continent, in different cultures and ages. Every one of these girls has tried to understand the world around them and dreamt of a better future. This book transcends borders and time to discover what all of these little girls have had in common, despite their varying circumstances.

Los últimos días de Pompeya, novela escrita por Edward Bulwer Lytton en 1834, es una de las más importantes novelas históricas del romanticismo inglés y narra los últimos días de la vida de unos cuantos habitantes de Pompeya, inmediatamente antes de la destrucción de la ciudad que provocó la erupción del Vesubio en el año 79 de nuestra era. Los personajes de este libro muestran la cultura de la Roma Antigua del siglo I. El protagonista, Glauco, representa la cultura griega, que ha sido subordinada por Roma, y Arbaces, su oponente, la antiquísima e inmóvil cultura egipcia. Dione...

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...