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David Copperfield es un niño al que su padrastro abandona tras la muerte de su madre. Sin embargo, el chico hace todo lo posible para demostrar que tiene lo necesario para triunfar. Ambientada en 1840, David viaja por un mundo que trata de apartarle mientras él busca un hueco en el que encajar.
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"The Kreutzer Sonata" portrays an intense conflict between sexual desire and moral constraint. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is a simple, moving tale of peasant life with a moral lesson; the hero of "The Death of Ivan Ilych," after a lifetime of struggle, finds faith and love only as he faces death. Explanatory footnotes.
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Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great...
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"Ever since he saw the legendary player known as 'the Little Giant' compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, 'the King of the Court,' Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens...
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"In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book about the language of poetry, loss, and love. How do you...
26) The stranger
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
27) Fahrenheit 451
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El libro más emblemático de Bradbury llega a Minotauro Esenciales. Un clásico de la literatura.
Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyección hipodérmica, escoltado por helicópteros, está preparado para...
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What would you do if you could text all your questions, all your worries, all your doubts and fears to God? What if He was always online and would always answer you? Would you start typing right now?
Someone once said that the single most important thing about you is your thoughts on God. Give that a minute to sink in. Why would that be? Because all your thoughts about humanity, love, suffering, and the like are shaped primarily by whether or not...
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So viele Geschichten, so viele Menschen, so viele Einzelheiten in der Bibel… Wo soll man da anfangen? Und was ist der rote Faden?
Zwei Bibelexperten haben eine Auswahl aus den wichtigsten Texten der Bibel getroffen. Verbindende Überleitungen zeigen den großen Zusammenhang auf. So kommt man kurzweilig von Adam und Eva bis zum neuen Himmel und der neuen Erde. Ein Streifzug durch die Texte, die man wirklich kennen muss - und zugleich durch Gottes...
30) NET, Abide Bible
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"Abide in me." John 15:4
Do you yearn for life-giving, intimate communion with God? The Abide Bible is designed to help you experience the peace, hope, and growth that come from encountering the voice and presence of God in Scripture. Every feature in Abide is designed to teach and develop Scripture-engagement habits that help you know the power and spiritual nourishment of abiding in Christ.
Created in partnership with Bible Gateway and the Taylor...
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The Amplified Cross-Reference Bible offers the full text of the popular Amplified® translation along with an extensive center-column cross-reference system to help you get the most out of your Bible-reading experience.The Amplified Bible is designed for readers who want to understand all the rich nuances of the original Bible languages. No working knowledge of Greek or Hebrew is required-just a desire to know more about what God says in his Word....
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THE LSV IS FINALLY HERE: A BRAND NEW, LITERAL, EASY-TO-READ TRANSLATION OF THE COMPLETE HOLY BIBLE-BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
• A modern, literal, word-for-word (formal equivalence) English translation of the Holy Scriptures utilizing English word rearrangement when necessitated for readability. The LSV is the most literal translation of The Holy Bible, with significant improvement over previous literal translations, including Robert Young's...
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Diese Übertragung des Neuen Testaments lässt sich lesen wie ein Roman. Sie erweckt das Geschehen intensiver und bildhaft er zum Leben als die klassischen Übersetzungen. Und wird durch die Verszählung für jeden Absatz nun auch zur praktischen Alltagsbibel. Dabei vereint Fred Ritzhaupt die frische Lebendigkeit der heutigen Sprache mit einer hohen Treue zum griechischen Urtext. Und macht den Gott erfahrbar, den Jesus als Vater vorgestellt hat. Wer...
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The biblical books were written to Jews, for Jews, and about Jews, yet most Bible translations do not maintain a connection to the Jewish essence of the Bible. The TLV speaks with a decidedly Jewish voice to recover the authentic context of the Bible and the Christian faith, retaining the Jewish order of the Old Testament books, the Jewish name of the Messiah, reverence for the four-letter unspoken name of God, and many Hebrew transliterated terms,...
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The Expanded Bible: New Testament reflects the latest scholarship, current English, and the needs of contemporary students of the Bible. This new testament includes a multitude of study aids right in line with the text. Expanded translations and other helps make it possible for you to study the Bible while you read. Expanded translations bring out the meaning of words and offer alternatives. Literal meanings of terms from the original languages are...
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This Bible Reading guide helps readers walk with God by becoming a 'committed student of the word of God'. Split into sections of various tips, this book guides readers of the Bible in reading with greater depth, clarity and focus, ultimately encouraging profound connections and revelations. Complete with the author's own notes from Bible Readings, readers leave with a better understanding of how to weave the words of the Bible into your prayer and...
37) The Holy Bible with Notes, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent
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This is the complete Holy Bible as annotated by Fr. George Leo Haydock, and later revised by Oakeley. It is, a venerable Catholic Study Bible of much erudition and Catholic orthodoxy that remains in print to this day. The original Haydock Bible was, published in Manchester England in 1811, and then, revised by Oakeley in 1878. This was the last original updating of the Haydock Bible, which reflected then current discoveries in philology, archaeology...
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“God Speaks Your Language” is a presentation of the theories and issues facing modern Bible readers. It encourages readers to let God's word speak for itself. English words must be accurate in their literary narrative, in the beauty of poetic verse, and in mysterious figurative language, all to capture the rich meaning of his revealed word.
Our first language is the window into our soul. To know God, to share our deepest feelings with our Creator,...
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Lo que se dice de Tom Sawyer podría decirse de cualquier chico en cualquier lugar: curioso, travieso y siempre en busca de diversión. Algunos aseguran que Mark Twain se propuso recrear una parte de su niñez en un poblado a orillas del Misisipi, zona de confluencia de razas y supersticiones, y lo logró con el poder de su imaginación y de su escritura, asegurando para siempre el gusto en los lectores. La historia cuenta cómo Tom y sus amigos Huck...