Cartas a Milena reúne la correspondencia que entre 1920 y 1922 Franz Kafka (1883-1924) dirigió a Milena Jesenská, mujer de temperamento excepcional residente en Viena, con quien trabó conocimiento a raíz de su voluntad de traducir al checo dos de sus relatos.
Narrador, crítico social y agudo ensayista, Francisco Ayala (1906-2009) participó a lo largo de su vida en las peripecias de una historia agitada y llena de convulsiones, de la que pudo rendir cumplido testimonio desde su personal perspectiva y con la integridad del intelectual que, ante aquello en lo que cree, no admite compromisos ni se acoge a subterfugios.
No son frecuentes las obras que, por distintos motivos, consiguen atraer la atención de sucesivas generaciones de lectores y estudiosos; obras que por extrañas razones o sinrazones ejercen una clara seducción, no se sabe muy bien si debido a su contenido o a una leyenda que el tiempo no hace sino acrecentar.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and life goes on normally in a latin way.
Geprägt von tiefer Verehrung und Bewunderung schreibt Klaus Mann als sein letztes Werk die erste ausführliche Darstellung des französischen Nobelpreisträgers in deutscher Sprache.
Hans-Hermann Kestel entwirft ein »überaus komplexes Themen- und Motivgeflecht«, das sowohl dem Kenner des Werkes von Erich Loest neue Einblicke ermöglicht, aber genauso jemandem, der schlichtweg »nur« daran interessiert ist, mehr über den Autor und seine Texte zu erfahren.
Der Band gibt eine übersichtliche Darstellung von Goethes Naturforschung, zeichnet sie in allen von ihm betriebenen Wissenschaften nach ‒ mit Schwerpunkt auf der Morphologie und Metamorphosenlehre.
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John ClareIn 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough.
José Ortega Spottorno, el menor de los tres hijos de José Ortega y Gasset, compaginó a lo largo de toda su vida el empeño en conservar, difundir y, en su labor editorial, continuar la obra de su padre, reanudando las actividades de Revista de Occidente, e impulsando la creación de iniciativas propias.
THE ONLY COMPLETE BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS AUTHORFeatures exclusive interview content with relatives of RowlingWith nearly 150 full-color photographs - many published here for the first timeContains 5 maps and a Family Tree specially created for this bookJoanne "e;Jo"e; Rowling is known to readers the world over as J.
Jane Austen is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English literary canon, and recent film and television adaptations of her works have brought them to a new audience almost 200 years after her untimely death.
Jane Austen is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English literary canon, and recent film and television adaptations of her works have brought them to a new audience almost 200 years after her untimely death.
Nachdem Gustav aus dem Krieg zurückkehrt, zieht es ihn auf Einladung seines Onkels Georg Sattler, der dort eine private Lufttransportfirma aufbaut, nach Kolumbien.
In a memoir that's equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking secret, and her family's history.
Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries.
This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of his letters and manuscripts, items written about Hemingway between 1918 and 1965, and short excerpts from reviews of each of Hemingway's novels.
Making contact this way with the late Christopher Hitchens a prominent atheist, may appear a contradiction to his life's work, however once you hear his words about how this is possible, you may reconsider, or should I say, please consider.
Outstanding literary critic, editor, lecturer and teacher, master of classical and oriental thought, widely respected interpreter of Christian belief, Paul Elmer More lived a full and productive life.
Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "e;Civil Disobedience,"e; a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail.
This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art.
Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "e;color line"e; into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century.
In the twenty-two months covered by this volume, Jefferson spent most of his time at Monticello, where in his short-lived retirement from office he turned in earnest to the renovation of his residence and described himself as a 'monstrous farmer.
Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be ';the One,' the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection.
In a memoir that's equal parts love story, investigation, and racial reckoning, Munemo unravels and interrogates her whiteness, a shocking secret, and her family's history.
Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries.
An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains the best guide to his own life and work.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times'Extraordinary and engrossing' SpectatorIt was the most extraordinary year.
'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.
