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  • Las pequeñas virtudes
    Las pequeñas virtudes
    In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes...
    Natalia Ginzburg
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  • Los comienzos del jazz
    Los comienzos del jazz
    Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists...
    Gunther Schuller
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  • Los hombres no son islas
    Los hombres no son islas
    Based on John Donne's famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his "ideal library" by inviting us to read—and reread—more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can arouse the reader's curiosity and encourage them to read the work from which it came,...
    Nuccio Ordine
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  • Lucerna y Albert
    Lucerna y Albert
    Written in 1857 and 1858, these two stories are a tribute to Tolstoy's passion for music and are inspired by episodes from his life. In "Lucerne" he offers evocative descriptions of the city by the lake and recreates in first person the conflicts of...
    Lev Tolstói
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  • Momentos estelares de la humanidad
    Momentos estelares de la humanidad
    This is probably Stefan Zweig's most famous book. In it he brings to its peak the art of historical and literary miniature. Very varied are the events that he brings together under the title of "Stellar Moments": the decline of the Eastern empire, in...
    Stefan Zweig
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  • Novela de ajedrez
    Novela de ajedrez
    With no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the...
    Stefan Zweig
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  • Obligación impuesta y Wondrak
    Obligación impuesta y Wondrak
    In these two pacifist stories, Stefan Zweig condemns the horrors of the Great War that destroyed the freedom and dignity of Europe. In the first, Ferdinand, a young exile in Switzerland, resists being sent to war. In "Wondrak," Ruzena struggles to save her son...
    Stephan Zweig
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  • Para pensar mejor
    Para pensar mejor
    We have been taught that the shortcut is not recommended, that it is a tricky resource, the lazy trick. However, for Marcus du Sautoy it is a legitimate tactic: in mathematics, the realm of strategic thinking that emulates the logic of nature, the shortcut...
    Marcus Du Sautoy
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  • Respira (Batiscafo)
    Respira (Batiscafo)
    Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the wild coast of Western Australia. Loner by nature, he hates the quiet customs of his family, but everything changes when he becomes friends with Loonie, an impulsive and rebellious boy...
    Tim Winton
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  • Séptimo: No robarás
    Séptimo: No robarás
    This essay offers an insightful reflection on the market's origins in the West, highlighting its role from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age as a collective identity and autonomous value judge. Paolo Prodi argues that the mercantile system, often misunderstood, historically shaped the...
    Paolo Prodi
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  • Terra incognita
    Terra incognita
    For thousands of years, human beings ignored a large part of the planet's territories, landscapes and inhabitants, and on maps the unknown regions were called Terra incognita. Even in 1840, the seabed was a complete mystery. Thirty years later, scientists continued to defend that...
    Alain Corbin
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  • Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)
    Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)
    It is not by chance that I bring together in a single book these three essays on Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky. With a common purpose I try to show the three great novelists of the 19th century as prototypes because of the contrast of...
    Stephan Zweig
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  • Tres poetas de sus vidas
    Tres poetas de sus vidas
    Stefan Zweig, recognized as one of the greatest biographers of all time, examines with his usual insight and subtlety the lives and works of three great writers, fascinated by Tolstoy's lucidity, Casanova's impartiality, and Stendhal's ambiguity. He considers all three "poets of their lives"...
    Stefan Zweig
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  • Valentino
    Valentino
    Although his parents are convinced that Valentino will become a great man, his sisters believe that he is nothing more than a vain, selfish and frivolous young man, more concerned with his conquests than with his medical studies. Valentino's sudden engagement to a rich...
    Natalia Ginzburg
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