Confessions of a Crap Artist
Originally written in 1959, it was not published until 1975. It is one of the author’s dozen novels that do not belong to the science fiction genre.
The novel portrays a bitter and complex marital...
Adults
Puttering About in a Small Land
Written in 1957, it was published posthumously in 1985. This novel does not belong to the science fiction genre.
The narrative begins in 1944, when Virginia and Roger meet in Washington and marry...
Cultural Christians in the Early Church
It is a historical-religious essay that seeks to dismantle an overly idealized image of the early Church. Nadya Williams argues that, from the earliest centuries, many Christians lived a faith mixed with...
The teacher
The Teacher, by Freida McFadden, is an intense and addictive psychological thriller that constantly plays with the reader’s sense of distrust. The story takes place in a high school marked by the scandal of...
A year in the life of William Shakespeare: 1599
The year 1599, in Elizabeth I’s England, was not an easy one; it coincided with the sending of an army to crush the rebellion of the Catholic Tyrone in Ireland. They faced the threat of a new naval attack...
The World to Come
The title refers to an expression repeated throughout the book, which takes on different meanings: sometimes it is the world after death, other times the world as it exists now in a more mature state. But...
Separate Rooms
Tondelli (Correggio, 1955–1991) is a representative of postmodern Italian literature. The novel (largely autobiographical) does not present a true plot, but rather three moments in the life of a young...
Erec y Enid
Erec et Enide is one of the earliest and most outstanding Arthurian novels written by Chrétien de Troyes. It is a fundamental work within the so-called “Matter of Britain,” the body of stories inspired by...
A Scanner Darkly
In this science fiction novel (with some elements of detective fiction), Dick imagines a near future in which the U.S. government has lost the battle against drugs. The situation is already horrifying: a...
Accabadora
Maria and Tzia Bonaria live as mother and daughter, but their understanding has the special value of things they have freely chosen for one another. The elderly seamstress saw Maria stealing from a shop and...