'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper'[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York TimesA New Yorker Book of the YearDiscover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of ShakespeareIn an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.
Gérard de Nerval recurrió a los sueños y fantasías para mostrar los nexos entre la realidad y lo sobrenatural, que de alguna manera reflejaban el estado mental que lo condujo al suicidio.
While many famous writers Balzac, Proust, Oscar Wilde are buried at Pariss Pre Lachaise Cemetery, there are also writers, many more of them in fact, buried there who have been completely forgotten, not necessarily because they were not good but because cultural memory is necessarily limited.
Washington Irving's 'The Complete Historical Works of Washington Irving' is a collection of stories, essays, and biographies that showcase the author's mastery of historical fiction.
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women.
'Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where the blue of the sea melted into the blue of the sky with nothing between.
A memoir you read with the same breathlessness as you read the most gripping of novels - iNews Astonishing a story that brims with life and hard-won hope - Sunday Times Fantastic.
The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite.
The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories and returned to the metropole after the Second World War.
The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories and returned to the metropole after the Second World War.
Der Vortrag gibt eine Übersicht über das Werk "Auf der der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit von Marcel Proust (1870-1922), eine knappe Analyse der Hauptthemen des Buches sowie ein Abriss seines Lebens bis zum Jahre 1910, als er endgültig mit der Niederschrift der "Recherche" begann.
Named Most Anticipated by: Bustle Popsugar Goodreads Zibby Magazine SheReads Book RiotAnd featured in Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire*Nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Best Debut Novel award and longlisted for the Book of the Year award through Book of the Month*'Achingly beautiful, and heartbreakingly relatable.
The anthology 'Personal Correspondence Between Gustave Flaubert & George Sand' serves as an exquisite exploration of the intellectual and emotional interplays between two titans of 19th-century French literature.
The untold story of the favorite children's book author, featuring original artwork by Wesley Dennis from some of Henry's best-known books, as well as over 100 personal photographs, letters, and artifacts.
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead.
»Nur im Wechsel ertragen wir unser Leben« Hugo von Hofmannsthal Unter den großen Autoren der literarischen Moderne ist Hugo von Hofmannsthal ein faszinierender Sonderfall, reich an Widersprüchen und vielfältig in seiner weitgespannten Produktivität.
Die Frankfurter Schule steht für ein Spektrum von Intellektuellen, die langfristig oder zeitweilig dem 1924 in Frankfurt am Main gegründeten Institut für Sozialforschung und dessen Projekt einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft verbunden waren.
In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism.
Este libro analiza la obra de Gabriel García Márquez en la relación con la historia de Colombia a partir de las guerras civiles y la consolidación del cacicazgo en el poder.
Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024, Irish Book AwardsShortlisted for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2025Longlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Prize 2025 How far would you go for the missing?
Dieses eBook: "Autobiographische Abenteuergeschichten und Memoiren" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Of Human Bondage (The Unabridged Autobiographical Novel)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
'Clown Grimaldi: Biografischer Roman' ist ein Buch, das Liebhaber der viktorianischen Literatur ebenso begeistern wird wie Leser, die sich für die historische Unterhaltungskultur interessieren.
Dans "Le Monde d'hier", Zweig, alors qu'il vit en exil depuis de nombreuses années après avoir fuit la guerre en Europe et la montée du nazisme en Allemagne, fait le point sur son parcours, décrivant son enfance, son adolescence, sa passion précoce pour la littérature et le développement de son engagement intellectuel.
