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Peter Green

    22 de diciembre de 1924

    Este autor, que pasó de una carrera en arquitectura a ser escritor, aporta una perspectiva única a la escritura de misterio, basándose en experiencias con intrigas y posibles engaños encontrados en su vida profesional. Su novela debut presenta a un arquitecto que se topa con un asesinato durante una gran inundación, lo que lo obliga a asumir un papel de detective aficionado para proteger su carrera y su vida. El estilo narrativo del autor está moldeado por su pasado en la redacción de propuestas y una profunda apreciación por las historias familiares, incluyendo relatos de guerra humorísticos y esfuerzos periodísticos, infundiendo a su ficción tanto suspense como detalle auténtico.

    A Concise History of Ancient Greece to the Close of the Classical Era
    The Parthenon
    Gluten Exposed
    Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : A Historical Biography
    Daniel Libeskind
    The Prime of Life
    • The Prime of Life

      • 608 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      The second volume of Simone de Beauvoirs autobiography, starting at the age of 21.

      The Prime of Life2024
      4,2
    • Daniel Libeskind

      • 167 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      This volume examines the architectural work of Daniel Libeskind and features sketches, plans, models and images of completed buildings. Jacques Derrida, Bernhard Schneider and Mark C. Taylor contribute essays.

      Daniel Libeskind1997
      4,0
    • This biography portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Writing for the general reader, the author provides gritty details on Alexander's darker side while providing a gripping tale of Alexander's career.

      Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : A Historical Biography1991
      4,2
    • Penguin Classics: The Erotic Poems

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the "Cures for Love," with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and "On Facial Treatment for Ladies," an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

      Penguin Classics: The Erotic Poems1982
    • The Parthenon

      • 172 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Democracy's symbolic birthplace, the famed Acropolis, stands today as a rubble-strewn reminder of the glory that was Greece. The ancient citadel, once the center of Athenian religion and civic pride, is surmounted by half a dozen ruined buildings, among them the most famous temple in the Western world, the Parthenon.

      The Parthenon1973
      3,5