Staples: 140 books

C. S. Lewis subtituló este libro como Un sueño. Ese es el artificio que le permite construir una fantasía literaria plena de significado y modernidad. El nervio de su relato es una crítica demoledora al "todo vale". El gran divorcio es el que se producirá inevitablemente entre el bien y el mal....

La oración es un puro don, un gran regalo de Dios. Así la entiende también Lewis. Con su habitual brillantez, se sirve de la correspondencia que mantiene con otro intelectual, para aportar luz sobre cuestiones como: ¿qué valor tiene la oración?, ¿es un soliloquio que nadie escucha?, ¿tiene...

Este volumen recoge nueve sermones del autor, proclamados en su mayor parte en Oxford durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en los años inmediatamente posteriores. Salvo el primero, que da título al volumen, siguen un orden cronológico, y fueron publicados por primera vez en 1949. Todos ellos se...

France, 1918. Sophia, the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general, is on her way to the town of Douai to elope with the man of her dreams – a young army officer – against her parents’ wishes. On her way, she witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English...

The Pearly Queen was really Aunt Edie. She was thirty-nine, had a good job in a factory, lived in a flat off Camberwell Green, and had never married. Her fiancé had drowned in the Thames when she was a girl and since then she had been on her own, though not from choice. Everyone loved Aunt Edie -...

When Baroness Sophie von Korvacs meets British painter James Fraser one hot summer's day in Vienna, the attraction is instant. A whirlwind romance follows, with Vienna bathed in the brilliance of the last days of the emperor. And when James proposes to Sophie it seems a fitting end to that wonderful,...

From autumn 1941 to the first months of 1942, the war continued to affect the lives of the Adams and Somers families. It was not so much the war, however, as a succession of tragic domestic events that brought a sad and lonely little girl called Phoebe into the care of Susie and Sammy Adams,...

In 1941, the United Kingdom was in desperate straits, standing alone with its troops against the colossal war machine of Nazi Germany. There was always Prime Minister Winston Churchill, however, who growled his defiance to Hitler and induced in his people a determination to endure. The Adams...

When young British agent John Kirby comes to Russia in 1911 he is there to work and to explore a new and exciting country. He does not expect to fall in love, but an invitation to a ball from the Tsar changes all that and, after an evening of dancing and romance, John and the Tsar's eldest daughter,...

Brussels, 1915 It is a frosty April evening in occupied Belgium when a beautiful young woman finds herself on the run from the enemy. Also being pursued is Ned Scott, a British army major who has been badly injured. The pair find themselves at a hospital run by the famous Edith Cavell, who...

Sammy Adams is always on the look-out for a new business opportunity. When he hears from his son David about the new-fangled supermarkets that are becoming all the rage in America, he immediately starts looking for a suitable site in South London. Meanwhile, legacies of the last war continue...

Compendiada en pocas páginas, esta historia de la vida cotidiana en México habla de todos nosotros, los que vivimos hoy los que vivieron ayer, y nos muestra aquellos aspectos de nuestro pasado en el que somos protagonistas y del que no nos habían hablado antes.

South London in the 1930s ...and Mrs Hilda Jones is fed up with her dull husband. She thought marrying would liven him up, but after twenty-five years he's just as boring as the day she married him , and now she wants to lead her own life. Her newly-married daughter, Olive, is shocked, but Hilda is...

No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible' social and political struggles of subaltern and ethno-racially subordinated women.