The full story of an Australian literary enigmaWhy did Elizabeth Harrower one of Australias most important postwar authors stop writing at the height of her powers?
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years “Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was.
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years “Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was.
Apoyada en una amplia documentación y en un tono íntimo, El hijo de Míster Playa traza la cartografía del recorrido vital de Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) a través de las personas que lo conocieron y de las anécdotas que de él se atesoran.
Das Debattenbuch zur KlimakriseHeute an die Zukunft denken, bedeutet, an den Klimawandel zu denken, der als Klimakatastrophe, gar als Klimaapokalypse daherkommt.
Das Debattenbuch zur KlimakriseHeute an die Zukunft denken, bedeutet, an den Klimawandel zu denken, der als Klimakatastrophe, gar als Klimaapokalypse daherkommt.
This new biography takes into account the whole woman-not just the prolific author of such great works as Their Eyes Were Watching God , Moses, Man of the Mountain, Jonah's Gourd Vine, Mules and Men, as well as essays, folklore, short stories, and poetry-but the philosopher and the spiritual soul, examining how each is reflected in her career, fiction and nonfiction publications, social and political activity, and, ultimately, her death.
"e;An enthralling, heartening study of a man of unflagging interest in life"e; Independent"e;A thoroughly researched biography"e; New York Review of Books"e;Provides readers of English with a perfect introduction to the life and works of an outstanding writer, one whom everyone should read"e; Irish Times"e;I am thoroughly convinced by Gudmundsson's portrayal of Laxness"e; J.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature.
Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her experience.
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her experience.
Scribners tells the inside story of five generationsover 150 yearsat the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribners Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day.
Scribners tells the inside story of five generationsover 150 yearsat the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribners Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day.
In 1842, Victorian England's foremost novelist visited America, naively expecting both a return to Eden and an ideal republic that would demonstrate progress as a natural law.
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nations imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity.
The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page'Lifescapes is the universe in miniature'DAILY TELEGRAPHIt is soul that I go looking for.
Dieses eBook: "Reisen eines Deutschen in Italien in den Jahren 1786 bis 1788" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas.
An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters.
A pioneering biography of George Orwell told through moments of everyday life 'A clever, offbeat history of mid-century Britain through George Orwell's eyes.
William Henry Hudson spent the first 18 years of his life living among the stunning landscape of the Argentine Pampas and studying the diverse flora and fauna there.
