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.
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.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERForeword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year Finalist (Religion)"A blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church.
The story of Branwell Brontë has been plagued by misconceptions, lies, and misunderstandings for decades This incredible new volume seeks to set the record straight.
While I don't attest to being a poet or being educated in proper poetry writing, I have enjoyed creating my own works of poetry and song over the last two decades.
If you are a seasoned bread maker looking for tasty new bread recipes or baking techniques including how to bake bread in an air fryer or slow cooker or if you are new to breadmaking, The Complete Starter Guide to Making Bread is for you.
Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.
This book introduces the unique archive of letters, textiles, hand-drawn maps, emails and photographs from asylum seekers held indefinitely in offshore detention at Topside Camp, Nauru 2001-5.
In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist's Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century.
The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator whose achievements can be traced across Canada and the United States.
Dieses eBook: "Das Haus - Eine Familiengeschichte vom Ende des vorigen Jahrhunderts" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Dieses eBook: "Anton Reiser (Psychologischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
This book is a collection of biographical records portraying the life of Rudyard Kipling, drawn from official biographies, memoirs, testimonies, letters, diaries, conversations, anecdotes, essays, and reviews.
Of Time and the River (1935) is Thomas Wolfe's vast, lyrical chronicle of Eugene Gant's passage from provincial youth into artistic self-consciousness, following his education at Harvard, travels through America and Europe, and anguished search for identity, vocation, and belonging.
Dieses eBook: "Friedrich Schiller - Sein Leben und Schaffen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare.
Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River form the vast autobiographical foundation of Thomas Wolfe's fiction, tracing Eugene Gant's passage from a turbulent Southern childhood to artistic awakening and restless exile.
What is it about Elena Ferrante's writing, especially her masterwork Neapolitan Novels, that resonates so deeply with millions of readers, making this Italian author who writes under a pseudonym with absolutely no platform an international sensation?
Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer's touching, funny and thought-provoking memoir is a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she'd been born and brought up to be: 'a proper girl' - a precious definition in a segregate and racist America where black life was deemed only three-fifths of white life .
