Títulos en Arte y literatura

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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter’s project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering.

Imogen Hermes Gower, author of one of the most anticipated novels of 2018, joined us to discuss this, her debut, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. A spellbinding story of curiosity and obsession, it is filled to the brim with intelligence, heart and wit. Listen to this exclusive interview to find out more about Imogen’s writing process and research strategies and what it was like to see the audiobook being recorded.

Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. This momentous career was shadowed by a tragic personal life, also fully portrayed here.

Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and...

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions—for painting, women, and ideas—were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. “A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of...

A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow. What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland—now with a new introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a...

El autor de Solo en el mundo e Historia de una desaparición emprende en este relato autobiográfico una infatigable búsqueda de la verdad y nos invita a compartir sus emociones más íntimas, desde las luminosas estampas de una infancia mediterránea en Trípoli y Bengasi hasta un áspero presente donde se mezclan la ilusión, la rabia y la impotencia.

Aunque más conocido entre nosotros por haber sido el esposo de la mítica escritora, Leonard Woolf fue, por derecho propio, una de las personalidades más notables de su tiempo. Editor, escritor y político, su polifacética e intensa vida contiene todo el esplendor y la tragedia del siglo XX, del que es sin duda uno de sus más conspicuos representantes.

Todos nosotros somos, en esencia, aquello que leemos. Este principio, difícilmente rebatible desde cualquier rincón de la cultura, es el presupuesto desde el que parte Luis García Montero en este libro que rastrea las huellas que dejaron en Federico García Lorca sus lecturas.

Compilación de semblanzas de autores admirados por el famoso poeta y escritor nicaragüenese Rubén Darío. La selección incluye por igual a Poe y a Verlaine, a Lautréamont y a Ibsen, a Villiers de L’Isle-Adam y a José Martí, entre otros. Darío sigue la estela de su admiradísimo Verlaine en Les poètes maudits (1884) y de Théophile Gautier en Les grotesques (1844). Un total de diecinueve autores acabaron conformando el siguiente audiolibro.

El misterioso y camaleónico Enrique Amorim, mililonario y escritor uruguayo, sedujo a algunos de los personajes más fascinantes del siglo XX. Entre sus relaciones, la que tuvo con Federico García Lorca fue probablemente la más notable y su envolvimiento en la desaparición del cadáver del...

Read by Tilda Swinton and Olivia Laing. ‘Wonderful and necessary’ ANNE ENRIGHT ~ ‘Constantly surprising’ GUARDIAN ~ ‘Stunning’ DEBORAH LEVY ~ ‘Compulsively fascinating’ NEW STATESMAN ~ ‘Beautiful’ HANYA YANAGIHARA ~ ‘Daring and seductive NEW YORK TIMES ~ ‘Profound...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on...

«He aquí a la Mistral comadre y recadera, mujer vieja y criolla, juguetona: ese es su mal y su bien». Así mismísimo se define muy impersonal pero personalmente la propia Gabriela Mistral, revelando en recreadora frase epistolar ese «ser yo» sin miramiento alguno, a no ser su siempre ver...

Visionary Teachings to Explore the Landscape of the Heart Beloved poet and philosopher John O'Donohue created a remarkable body of work on the subjects of spirituality and Celtic mysticism. His gift was evoking hope, solace, and clarity—offering ancient wisdom that could provide desperately...

Astrid Lindgrens Figuren revolutionierten die Kinderliteratur. Jahrzehntelang begleitete sie dieser Schmerz, sie setzte sich bis ins hohe Alter für Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und die Rechte von Kindern ein und prägte mit ihrem Engagement und ihrem Werk ein ganzes Jahrhundert. Jens Andersen blickt in dieser umfassenden Biografie hinter die Fassade ihres weltweiten Erfolgs und erzählt das Leben der beliebten Bestsellerautorin neu.