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A medio camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, Las pequeñas virtudes reúne once textos de tema diverso que comparten una escritura instintiva, radical, una mirada comprometida llana y conclusivamente humana.

"Versuchen wir das Unmögliche", dies ist die berühmteste Botschaft Che Guevaras alias Ernesto Guevara La Serna, die zugleich die Lebensweise des Revolutionärs widerspiegelt. Ernesto wird am 14. Juni 1928 in Guatemala geboren. Er beginnt 1952 ein Medizinstudium, da er selbst starkes Asthma hat und armen Menschen helfen möchte. Allerdings wird er diesen Traum nicht in die Tat umsetzen, da er seine beiden, stetig miteinander ringenden Bestrebungen nicht vereinbaren kann: Er will zwar einerseits Menschen helfen, die unter so schrecklichen Krankheiten wie er leiden, aber auch andererseits Größeres erreichen, wie zum Beispiel Tausende aus den Fängen der Diktatur retten.

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

Orthodoxy, first published 1908, is Chesterton's spiritual autobiography. Subtitled, 'The romance of faith', Chesterton declares that people need a life of 'practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.'

Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.

面白くて読みやすい！たちまち１２万部！爽快な読後感が大人気！◎山極壽一さん（総合地球環境学研究所所長）「現代のドリトル先生による新しい動物言語学の誕生だ」

Brought to you by Penguin. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's...

Published seven years after the first instalment, The Common Reader: Second Series explores the works of Thomas Hardy, Laurence Stern and George Eliot, elegantly dissecting the art of the biography and the very nature of reading itself. Again Woolf speaks from the perspective of the everyday reader, urging for an intuitive and curious approach to literature – one which allows for freedom and experimentation as opposed to academic rigour.

Championing the everyday, ‘common’ reader, Woolf emphasises the importance of reading for curiosity and interest, as opposed to academic analysis. In a delightfully conversational tone and with personal flair, Woolf explores the works of classical and contemporary authors alike; from Chaucer and Austen to Defoe and Montaigne. Effortlessly blending biography, criticism and philosophy, these brilliantly written essays showcase Woolf’s passion for literature, and particularly its ability to shape life as we know it.

'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' – Telegraph In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a vivid and politically-engaged case for the importance of art – especially in the turbulent weather of the...

Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV - everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive.

The last 20 years have brought us the rise of the Internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably powerful computers, and the thorough transformation of our economy and society. Through it all, Ellen Ullman lived and worked inside that rising culture of technology, and in Life in Code she tells the continuing story of the changes it wrought with a unique, expert perspective.

High heels, movie deals, wagon wheels, shoes, reviews, having the blues, builders, babies, families and other calamities.... Many think that Marian Keyes leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs, and eating bananas with a laptop on a pillow in front of her. Under the Duvet is a wide collection of her journalism and stories - all personal, closely observed, and painfully funny.

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied...

Stefan Zweig wurde im ersten Weltkrieg zum Pazifisten. Als ich 1982 zur NVA einberufen wurde und im Spind meinen Stefan Zweig im Essensfach versteckte, wurde ich durch diese geistige Nahrung auch zum Kriegshasser. Nein, der Krieg ist nicht der Vater aller Dinge. Hier irren ausnahmsweise die alten Griechen. Liebe zum Menschen und zwar zu allen Menschen, das ist es was Zweig sein Leben lang vorlebte, predigte, ja beschwor. Nur durch Stefan Zweig habe ich gelernt zu hassen.

One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett. In this charming and heartfelt biography, Viginia Woolf tells his story: his early days as Miss Mitford's puppy running across the fields in wild abandon and fathering another, then the years spent in his invalid mistress' bedroom in Wimpole Street.

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination with this New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive. You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate...

Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication...

Basta un año de meditación perseverante, o incluso medio, para percatarse de que se puede vivir de otra forma. La meditación nos concentra, nos devuelve a casa, nos enseña a convivir con nuestro ser, nos agrieta la estructura de nuestra personalidad hasta que, de...

Während eines Aufenthalts auf der kanarischen Vulkaninsel La Gomera, den sie mit Schreiben und ausdauernden Naturbeobachtungen verbringt, wird Marica Bodrožić eines Tages gebeten, auf einen Hund aufzupassen. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit übernimmt er die Regie über ihre Tage und Wahrnehmungen. Ein überzeitliches Gespräch mit den vielen anderen Tieren ihres Lebens ist die Folge. Es entsteht eine Reflexion über Mensch und Natur, und über Angst, Verletzlichkeit und Trauer, die, einmal durchschritten, ein Hohelied des Lebens einleitet.