The Haw Lantern

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0151686564

T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...

Author	Marcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN	0674992350

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his...

Author

Sara Uribe

"Esta es la búsqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en México.

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Este es un ensayo y una obra y una novela y un poemario y una investigación, es escritura y reescritura, es un brutalmente honesto activismo literario que invita a reflexionar...

Author	Lucian of Samosata
ISBN	8879835432

La Storia vera, capolavoro di Luciano, viene considerata la prima narrazione fantascientifica, l'antesignana e il paradigma della funzione scientifica che supera gli spazi e i tempi logici delle conoscenze umane. Frutto di una affascinante e liberissima fantasia che si diverte a giocare con una...

Author

George MacDonald

If only the current "Christian romance" genre would go back to the shadows where it belongs, and leave some shelf space for this kind of book--more "Christian" and "romantic" in any of the good senses of those words than all the Oke, Livingstone and Fisher to be had.

The more I read him, the more...

Author	Jonathan Barnes
ISBN	0192854089

The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics,...