As adaptações de romances para jogos não são nada fora do comum, mas o impacto que tiveram em aproximar a literatura da Europa de Leste ao público global não pode ser menosprezado.
Dark Horse Books, in partnership with LucasFilm Ltd and Respawn Entertainment, is launching a special, hardcover artwork book based on Star Wars’ latest game installment.
Few works testify the essence and the creative ability of their author as well as The Screwtape Letters, perhaps the most ingenious and underestimated of C. S. Lewis’ fiction books. With razor-sharp wit and clever satire, Lewis uses the imaginary correspondence between two demons to point out both virtues and flaws in the Christian faith, as well as to expound on theological questions from the Adversary’s point of view.
Few novels have chapters so rich and impacting they can stand apart from the rest of the book, yet this is precisely what has happened with the story of “The Grand Inquisitor,” from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
As Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter Zamaswazi asks himself, “how could he survive twenty-seven years in prison?” Through the reading of
this compilation of Mandela’s letters, written during his time in prison, we can better understand what helped him carry on.
Twenty-five years after addressing to the subject for the first time, Joni Eareckson Tada returns to euthanasia as the main focus of this updated edition of When Is It Right to Die?. She felt the need to come back after learning of the tragic case of Nancy Fitzmaurice, a young 12-year old girl from England who, by the court’s order, had her tube feeding taken away. She died fourteen days later… of starvation.
The life of Martin Luther King, Jr. blends seamlessly with the fight against racial discrimination, which he experienced from a very early age. Although his parents had taught him the notable values of civility and dignity, the reigning system in the south of the United States, where he lived, repressed the African-American population at all costs, and he soon rebelled against it.
Biblion reviews History Channel’s book on the Knights Templar, a mysterious order that grew to be one of the greatest powers of the Middle Ages, only to be extinguished in a matter of years.
Five hundred years after the beginning of the Protestation Reformation, the words of Martin Luther echo in the theology and the doctrine of numerous denominations.