Biography: writers

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prizewinning author who became one of the Soviet regime's most formidable foes.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.

With the warmth and humor weve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them ';A riveting, gossipy, action-packed, seam-bursting blast through 100 years of (mainly) European history Impressively wide-ranging in scope and unflaggingly fascinating.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

A Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy became one of the most famous novels of the tumultuous 1960's.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America.

John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature, yet he remains misunderstood.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

"e;How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,"e; the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child.

Der russisch-jüdische Dichter Ossip Mandelstam, 1891 in Warschau geboren, ist einer der bedeutendsten Lyriker des 20.

Die Philologie ist allem Einzelnen, sei es noch so verquer, unschicklich oder ungeschickt, immer schon eng verbunden.