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The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

El autor, ha tenido una vida intensa como miembro de la Policía de Barcelona en las unidades más arriesgadas y punteras, y como responsable de empresa privada, una vez entrado en esa edad de la jubilación en la que cuesta adaptarse a la nueva vida, decide plasmar las vivencias de su niñez en forma de versos. Recordando aquellas travesuras y trayendo a su mente los mejores recuerdos de su vida en aquel importante centro minero que representó su pueblo. Cuando llega la jubilación, no estamos preparados para afrontar la inactividad, a mí me dio por escribir todo aquello que se me pasaba...

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