Über das BuchDer Roman erinnert an das Leben eines namenlosen Zeitgenossen, eines traumatisierten Freigeistes, eines wagemutigen Nonkonformisten, der im alltäglichen Scheitern und spontanen Wiederbeginn den Sinn des Lebens begriff und in vielfältigen Existenzformen ausagierte.
Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Cette étude est la première consacrée à François Claude André Le Roy de Lozembrune (1749-1801), originaire du Boulonnais, auteur oublié ayant passé la majorité de sa vie dans les pays germaniques, particulièrement à Vienne.
Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Admired by his contemporaries, and a hugely celebrated writer of his day, Charles Dickens is now remembered as one of the greatest English novelists and an influential spokesman for the conscience of Victorian England.
Rasputín es uno de los personajes más enigmáticos y polémicos del siglo XX; un monje analfabeto que, merced a sus supuestos dones espirituales, llegó a ejercer una tutela absoluta sobre la familia Romanov y el destino de la Rusia zarista.
The gripping story of Australias first female crime writer and her career-criminal sonWhen Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent herself.
In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie.
Novelist, critic, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, traveler, and art aficionado, Nicholas Delbanco has here compiled a mosaic of his life as he glances backwards and forwards from the vantage point of his eightieth year.
