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C. S. Lewis Signature Classic: The Four Loves by C S Lewis
Category: Mind | Body | Spirit | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine in its source and expression, and without the sweetening grace of ...Show more
Compelling Reason - Essays on Ethics & Theology - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C. S. Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
'You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning - never by being rude about your opponent's psychology.' For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the sensible way to approach faith and ethics. Much of the 20th century's ills are caused by ill-founded beliefs and opinions. Lewis's original approa ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences tha ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method consisting of chemistry and alchemy. Shelley describes the monster as 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) and hideously ugly, but sensitive and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but i ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Charlotte Brönte (1816-1855) fue una escritora británica, hermana de de Anna y Emily Brönte. Su obra más importante es la novela Jane Eyre, en la que se perciben ciertos rasgos autobiográficos.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters -- Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March -- and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.""Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.""Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."Meditations is a series of p ...Show more
Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine on Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books-The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality-Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the funda ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recomm ...Show more
Pilgrim's Regress - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C. S. Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
One of C. S. Lewis' works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirises different sections of the Church. Written within a year of Lewis' conversion, it characterises the various theological and temperamental leanin ...Show more
Screwtape Proposes a Toast and Other Pieces - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C. S. Lewis
Category: No Category | Series: C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
The only official sequel, penned by Lewis himself, to the ever-popular 'Screwtape Letters' - published alongside other short essays. One of the most popular books ever to come from the pen of C.S. Lewis was written in the name of Screwtape, a senior devil, experienced in the art of luring his 'patients ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
There will never be a man in this world who can truly love me, no matter how much I learn about the world. "I need so much!'" S&S Sense and Sensibility, by Jane AustenJane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility is one of her best-known works. On the title page, "By a Lady" appears where the autho ...Show more