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Un Mundo Feliz
Aldous Huxley • 1932
La ciudad y sus muros inciertos
Haruki Murakami · 2024
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Actos humanos
Han Kang • 2024
"Mayo de 1980. La ciudad de Gwangju se moviliza contra la dictadura militar de Chun Doo-hwan, que hace unos meses tomó el poder en Corea del Sur. La oposición civil, liderada por los estudiantes universitarios, se subleva a favor de la democracia, pero el ejército reprime cruelmente las protestas disparando indiscriminadamente a la multitud, sin hacer distinciones entre estudiantes y civiles. Tras la sanguinaria matanza, un joven busca el cadáver de un amigo, un alma intenta aferrarse a su cuerpo abandonado y a sus recuerdos, y un país brutalizado busca su voz. En esta novela polifónica, las víctimas y los supervivientes que los lloran se enfrentan a la censura, a la negación, al perdón, a la culpa y a la memoria de un episodio traumático que sigue resonando en nuestros días. Han Kang, galardonada con el premio Nobel de Literatura "por su intensa prosa poética que confronta los traumas históricos y expone la fragilidad de la vida humana", homenajea a las víctimas de la masacre de su ciudad natal a través de las voces de los mártires de la dictadura surcoreana. Actos humanos es una novela brutal, profundamente atemporal y universal que nos habla de las heridas colectivas, la represión y la violencia humana."--Descripción del editor.
El jardín de las mariposas
Dot Hutchison • 2020
Solitaire
Oseman Alice • 2014
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1989
The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2003
El Arte de la Guerra
Su Tzu • 2014
If Cats Disappeared From The World
Kawamura Genki
Poesía Completa
Alejandra Pizarnik • 2000
El diario de Anne Frank
Anne Frank • 2017
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 1992
Blue Nights
Joan Didion · 2012
Carta al Padre
Franz Kafka • 1952
La utilidad de lo inútil (Acantilado Bolsillo, 36) (Spanish Edition)
Nuccio Ordine • 2013
El oxímoron evocado por el título 'La utilidad de lo inútil' merece una aclaración. La paradójica 'utilidad' a la que me refiero no es la misma en cuyo nombre se consideran inútiles los saberes humanísticos y, más en general, todos los saberes que no producen beneficios. En una acepción muy distinta y mucho más amplia, he querido poner en el centro de mis reflexiones la idea de utilidad de aquellos saberes cuyo valor esencial es del todo ajeno a cualquier finalidad utilitarista. [...] Si dejamos morir lo gratuito, si renunciamos a la fuerza generadora de lo inútil, si escuchamos únicamente el mortífero canto de sirenas que nos impele a perseguir el beneficio, sólo seremos capaces de producir una colectividad enferma y sin memoria que, extraviada, acabará por perder el sentido de sí misma y de la vida. Y en ese momento, cuando la desertificación del espiritu nos haya ya agostado, será en verdad difícil imaginar que el ignorante 'homo sapiens' pueda desempeñar todavía un papel en la tarea de hacer más humana la humanidad. NUCCIO ORDINE "Algunos impenitentes agradecemos a Nuccio Ordine su manifiesto La utilidad de lo inútil en el que repasa las opiniones de filósofos y escritores sobre la importancia de seguir tutelando en escuelas y universidades ese afán de saber y de indagar sin objetivo inmediato práctico en el que tradicionalmente se ha basado la dignitas hominis". Fernando Savater "Un libro necesario una guía en esta vida adentellada por la crisis, por el ansia de eficiencia, por las quiebras". Roberto Saviano "En medio de este panorama, resulta oportuno que Nuccio Ordine haya publicado un libro en que alaba los saberes tradicionalmente considerados inútiles y que llegue, incluso, a darles la vuelta a los conceptos, considerando que los saberes humanísticos son más útiles que los supuestos saberes económicos". Jordi Llovet, El País
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf • 2003
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio • 2017
“Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.” —New York Times Book Review On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo • 2021
Winner of the National Book Award<br/>A New York Times Bestseller<br/><br/>"The queer romance we’ve been waiting for.”—Ms. Magazine<br/><br/>Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.<br/><br/>But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.<br/><br/>(Cover image may vary.)
After Dark
Haruki Murakami • 2010
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before; a burly female “love hotel” manager and her maidstaff; and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These “night people” are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Yuri’s slumber—mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime—will either restore or annihilate her. After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency—the interplay between self-expression and understanding, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor • 2002
El túnel
Ernesto Sabato • 2010
Novela De Estructura Casi Policial, El Túnel Presenta En El Personaje De María Iribarne La Comprensión De La Totalidad Y El Absoluto A La Vez Que Las Zonas Ocultas De Misterio Que Impulsarán A Juan Pablo Castel A Asesinarla. El Creador —pintor En Este Caso— Al Dar Forma A Su Obsesión Interna Debe Renunciar A Cualquier Otra Opción, En Un Proceso A La Vez Constructivo Y Destructivo Que Centrará El Análisis De Las Motivaciones Del Crimen. Obra Esencial De Sabato, Que Camus Refrendó Ante La Crítica Mundial, El Túnel Nos Entrega Los Elementos Básicos De Su Visión Metafísica Del Existir.
El Mundo de Sofía
Jostein Gaarder • 1995
Brand New. Ship worldwide
Coraline
Neil Gaiman • 2012
This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film—is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.<br/>"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...."<br/>When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.<br/>But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.<br/>Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.<br/>Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a can't-miss classic that enthralls readers age 8 to 12 but also adults who enjoy a perfect smart spooky read.
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion • 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.<br/><br/>Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.<br/><br/>This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges • 2000
En agosto nos vemos
Gabriel García Márquez • 2024
Uno de los “25 libros más esperados de 2024” de la revista Time<br/><br/>Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez<br/><br/>Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino. Un regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores del Nobel colombiano.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>One of the Time Magazine’s “25 Most Anticipated Books of 2024”<br/><br/>The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.<br/><br/>Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios, and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter • 2015
Los demasiados libros
Gabriel Zaid • 2009
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante • 2005
From the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s descent into despair—and rage—is “a masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house, cook meals with creativity and passion, refrain from using obscenities. After running into her husband with his much-younger new lover in public, she cannot even refrain from assaulting him physically. In a “raging, torrential voice” (The New York Times), Olga conveys her journey from denial to devastating emptiness—and when she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal. “Intelligent and darkly comic.” —Publishers Weekly “Remarkable, lucid, austerely honest.” —The New Yorker
Emma
Jane Austen • 2016
Emma By Jane Austen Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her friend and former governess, to Mr Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she likes matchmaking. After she returns home to Hartfield with her father, Emma forges ahead with her new interest against the advice of Mr Knightley and tries to match her new friend Harriet Smith to Mr Elton, the local vicar. First, Emma must persuade Harriet to refuse the marriage proposal from Robert Martin, a respectable, educated, and well-spoken young farmer, which Harriet does against her own wishes. However, Mr Elton, a social climber, thinks Emma is in love with him and proposes to her. When Emma tells him that she had thought him attached to Harriet, he is outraged. After Emma rejects him, Mr Elton leaves for a stay at Bath and returns with a pretentious, nouveau-riche wife, as Mr Knightley expected. Harriet is heartbroken and Emma feels ashamed about misleading her. Frank Churchill, Mr Weston's son, arrives for a two-week visit to his father and makes many friends. Mr Knightley suggests to Emma that, while Frank is clever and engaging, he is also a shallow character. Jane Fairfax comes home to see her aunt, Miss Bates, and grandmother, Mrs Bates, for a few months, before she must go out on her own as a governess. She is the same age as Emma, but Emma has not been as friendly with her as she might. Emma envies her talent and is annoyed to find all, including Mrs Weston and Mr Knightley, praising Jane. The patronising Mrs Elton takes Jane under her wing and announces that she will find her the ideal governess post before it is
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
La Carta Robada
Edgar Allan Poe • 2017
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2020
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)—where much of the story takes place—and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel.
Muchas vidas, muchos maestros / Many Lives, Many Masters
Brian Weiss • 2018
La historia real de un psiquiatra, su joven paciente y la terapia de regresión que cambió sus vidas para siempre. Un punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica.<br/><br/>El doctor Brian Weiss, jefe de psiquiatría del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, relata en éste, si primer libro, una asombrosa experiencia que cambió por completo su propia vida y su visión de la psicoterapia.<br/><br/>Una de sus pacientes, Catherine, recordó bajo hipnosis varias de sus vidas pasadas y pudo encontrar en ellas el origen de muchos de los traumas que sufría. Catherine se curó, pero ocurrió algo todavía más importante: logró ponerse en contacto con los Maestros, espíritus superiores que habitan los estados entre dos vidas. Ellos le comunicaron importantes mensajes de sabiduría y de conocimiento.<br/><br/>Este relato, profundamente conmovedor, punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica, constituyó un extraordinario best seller y sigue siendo de obligada lectura en un mundo convulsionado, en especial para los que buscan un sentido espiritual.<br/><br/>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br/><br/>The true story about a psychiatrist, his young patient, and a regression therapy that changed their lives forever. It is a meeting point between science and metaphysics.<br/><br/>Dr. Brian Weiss, head of psychiatry at the Mount Sinai hospital in Miami, narrates in this his first book, the astounding events that change his life and his vision of what is psychotherapy. Catherine, one of his patients, while under hypnosis was able to find many of her past lives and there, found the origins of various of the traumas that she was currently going through.<br/><br/>Catherine was cured, but something even more important happened: she managed to get in touch with the Masters, higher spirits that live in between two lives; they passed down important messages of wisdom and knowledge to her. This deeply moving story and a meeting point between science and metaphysics, was an extraordinary best seller and continues to be a must-read in a troubled world, especially for those who seek spiritual guidance.
Dracula
Bram Stroker • 2023
La peste
Albert Camus • 2002
Rare book
El Nacimiento De La Tragedia
Friedrich Nietzche • 2019
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 2004
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
Por el camino de Swann
Marcel Proust • 1991
Los niños del verano (Collector) (Spanish Edition)
Dot Hutchison • 2020
Crimen y castigo
Fiódor Dostoyevski • 2012
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 2013
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Franz Kafka · 2015
The Waves
Virginia Woolf · 1978
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors • 2022
The smash National bestseller and Goodreads Choice Award finalist--perfect for readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends. An addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple’s impulsive marriage.<br/><br/>Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank’s life is full of all the excesses Cleo’s lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could’ve predicted.<br/><br/>Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it’s Cleo’s best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo’s marriage, or Frank’s financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.<br/><br/>As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.
Las lágrimas azules
Juliette Morillot • 2013
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls • 2006
THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON<br/><br/>The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.<br/><br/>The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.<br/><br/>The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.<br/><br/>The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.<br/><br/>The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf • 1989
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”<br/><br/>In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling.<br/><br/>In this classic essay, Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create.<br/><br/>With a Foreword by Mary Gordon
