The spirit of hope
Byung-Chul Han (Seoul, 1959) studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg, German literature and theology at the University of Munich. In 1994 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on...
Byung-Chul Han (Seoul, 1959) studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg, German literature and theology at the University of Munich. In 1994 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on...
The aim of this small and magnificent book is to make accessible to everyone the essential truths about Purgatory according to the doctrine of the Catholic Church. In addition to the good explanation, it...
Book that approaches with great fidelity to the spirituality of Therese of the Child Jesus. It summarizes the life of trust, abandonment and love of the saint.
Well written and very suggestive....
The title does justice to the content of the book: it is a dispassionate and detailed historical account of the conflict between Athens and Sparta, which took place in the years 431-404 BC, and which...
The story of Ivan Denisovich, a fictional prisoner falsely accused of spying for the enemy, when he was captured by the Germans in World War II. The story is very similar to the one the author himself...
Perhaps the most popular of the author's novels. He says that this is the story of a young woman who, rejecting boyfriends, remains single to take care of her nephews, the children of a sister who is dying...
The book is densely packed with explanations about Catholic teaching on contraception, marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and infertility treatment. Chapter 1 (pages 23-26) contains a section on Natural...
The famous detective stories created by Chesterton appeared between 1910 and 1935. After the writer's death in 1936, they were collected in five volumes: The Innocence Of Father Brown; The Wisdom Of Father...
Sir Walter Scott published this first historical novel without much conviction — in fact he delivered it with a pseudonym — but it was a great success and marked the beginning of his fame. The novel follows...
The arrival to an imaginary village of a recently licensed doctor of London enables the author to show us the customs of rural England during the 1800s and the trouble that comments can cause in a small...
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