The answer to Russia's problems lies here, in Russia. . . . The church is the key. If Russia's guiding force is not religion, then her people will be listless. We can have Western laws, independent ju...
That was the trouble with being too highly born, Finbarr considered. The gods paid too much attention to you. It was ever thus in the Celtic world. Ravens would fly over the house to announce the deat...
La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.
He was quite a good-looking figure of a man.
Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. B...
And Dirk van Dyck the Dutchman realized that he never had been, and never would be, as proud of any child as he was of his elegant little Indian daughter at that moment.
The old man had smiled kindly. It is in their nature, child. God has made woman the weaker vessel. It was an old belief, dating back to St Paul himself. It is man who is made in God’s image, my child....
Small wounds are healed by time, but time can only bandage great wounds, which continue to bleed in secret.
La vida del aristócrata francés estaba llena de fantasmas, de reyes, antepasados y grandes acontecimientos que se desplazaban cual sombras en un desolado jardín. Como los fantasmas, impregnados de una...
Gospodi Pomily: Lord have mercy.
Propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto.
Cada uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos que se describen. Al seguir la historia de estas familias imaginarias a lo largo de los
When a voyager begins a journey, he prepares his ship, decides upon his course and sets sail. What else can he do? But he cannot know the outcome – what storms may arise, what new lands he may find, o...
Never mind,' Gertchen said with a smile, 'you'll have to be pagan today.
London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta
He walked quite contentedly, therefore, unaware that he was an undesirable.
Can you do it?' 'Maybe I can, and maybe I can't. But I am going to make MacDuff think that I can. And belief,' said Gabriel Love, with the smile of an angel, 'is a wonderful thing.
These are graven images – idolatry. A sin. He knew it was true. This was a love of worldly beauty utterly at odds with all he knew to be Puritan and holy.
Sviatopolk tenía la impresión de que ya no podía seguir odiando, pues el odio que se había nutrido con él año tras año, impulsándolo hacia delante como un cruel jinete que hinca las espuelas en los fl...
Novelists liked to imagine the interconnectedness of things—as though all the people in the big city were part of some great organism, their lives intertwined. He