Category: Ficção
Como os Jogos Tornaram os Livros da Europa de Leste Populares no Ocidente
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.
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The Art of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Limited Edition)
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.
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The Sources of Enchiridion Vol. 1, Ranked by Goodreads: Top #30-21
Our Enchiridion – The Handbook series is built around the words of authors and thinkers who helped shape Western culture. Thus we decided to list all thirty sources from Vol. 1 according to their average ratings on Goodreads in order to find out which work is the best among the best!
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The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis
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.
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PHILOSOPHY: The Grand Inquisitor – Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
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AGEING LIKE A FINE WINE… RIGHT?
One thing becomes evident as soon as one starts reading Le Morte d’Arthur: it sounds a bit stiff. Sentences just don’t seem to flow when the vast majority of them begins with “So,” “Then,” “And,” or a combination of these.
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“ICHTHUS”: CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS IN QUO VADIS
The fish is a well-known symbol for Christians. You’ve probably seen it displayed in the trunk of cars; if that is the case, then you’ve probably asked yourself also, “Why a fish?” or “What is it supposed to mean?”
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Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
Quo Vadis, one of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s most appraised novels, is a tour de force that will take you back to Nero’s Rome, in a magnificent story where love and faith triumph even over the Emperor’s madness.
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Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
The epic retelling of the Arthurian legend in the form of Le Morte d’Arthur has immortalized not only its author, but the very legend of Arthur and his valiant Knights of the Round Table as well. It contains everything a great fiction book ought to have – adventure, love, chivalry, danger, betrayal and a sprinkle of magic.
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FICTION: The Open Utopia – Thomas More
Heavily based on Plato’s Republic and the emergent humanist ideals of More’s time, Utopia depicts an idyllic nation and society which all other nations and societies should aspire to imitate, and its content remains the subject of much discussion more than five-hundred years after its publication.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: NARNIA
An extensive guide to the fantastic world of Narnia, as created by C. S. Lewis.
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