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Las memorias y confesiones secretas de la gran escritora inglesa. «La única escritura de la que me he sentido celosa». Virginia Woolf «Uno de los grandes hallazgos literarios de mi vida. De los principales». Winston Manrique Sabogal, WMagazín Cuando el diario de Katherine Mansfield se publicó por primera vez en 1927, Dorothy Parker afirmó en su reseña para The New Yorker: «Lo que leemos es tan íntimo que casi me siento culpable por haber transitado estas páginas. Es un libro magnífico, pero creo que solo los grandes y tristes ojos de Katherine deberían haberlo leído». En...

This is a story of a boy raised in an extreme ultra-strict Protestant family, members of “the Exclusive Brethren”. From an early age, James found he was at war with his family and the Brethren. Nothing that would be considered normal was acceptable. This book details his experiences growing up in this family, showing his struggles and confusions. It tells of the Brethren’s involvement in his love affair and how the family put an end to his marriage because he had slept with his fiancée. It outlines his escape from the Brethren while he was working in a large London hospital. The book...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...

Harold Lamb (1892-1962), prestigioso historiador y biógrafo, centró sus investigaciones en los grandes personajes del pasado (Ciro el Grande, Solimán el Magnífico, Gengis Khan), acerca de los cuales hizo aportaciones muy notables. Entre sus obras destacan los ensayos La marcha de los bárbaros, Historia de las cruzadas, Omar Khayyan y las novelas históricas Ciro el Grande y Carlomango.