Parafraseando al historiador romano Cayo Salustio, un hombre universal es aquel que "alcanza la gloria no con las fuerzas corporales sino con las facultades del espíritu".
This account of a bestselling author's suicide is ';part biography, part detective story, part memoir of a thorny but enduring friendship' (Molly Worthen, author of Apostles of Reason).
This incisive exploration probes the relationship between the novels of bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and the key events and influences of her life.
La biografía del filósofo que gobernó la opinión del siglo XVIII, figura totémica que aún hoy representa el librepensamiento y los mejores valores de la libertad individual.
This is the story of a spiritual journey, a theological quest to find better biblical answers (ones that work in real life) to the challenging questions that plague many of us surrounding gender and sexual identity.
Seit seiner Kindheit träumt John Franklin davon, zur See zu fahren, obwohl er dafür denkbar ungeeignet ist, denn in allem, was er tut, ist er extrem langsam.
Records of a Family of Engineers is a memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson that tells the story of his father's family and their work as engineers in Scotland.
Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious second novel from 'The Mobile Library' series.
Arno Schmidt (1914–1979) war ein Mythos schon zu Lebzeiten: Der Schriftsteller galt als der große Einsame, der, abgeschlossen von der Welt, in dem Heidedorf Bargfeld sein Leben ganz der künstlerischen Arbeit unterwarf.
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country.
Nach der Emigration ins gelobte Land sitzt Sammy Gronemann 1946 auch einer Strandterrasse vor der "köstlichen Silhouette Jaffas" und staunt über die gelungene Verwirklichung des zionistischen Jugendtraums.
Die erste Gesamtdarstellung zum literarischen Werkon der »Blechtrommel« (1959) über »Das Treffen in Telgte« (1979) bis hin zu »Vonne Endlichkait« (2015) − in der aktualisierten und erweiterten Neuausgabe bespricht Dieter Stolz das literarische Gesamtwerk von Günter Grass.
Ringelnatz, der zur See fahrende Sachse, der reisende Artist, der dichtende Komiker und schauspielende Poet - dieses Bändchen ist eine Hommage an den vielseitigen, beliebten Wortkünstler.
The editor-in-chief of Guideposts magazine shares the ';heartfelt, honest, lovely' (New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz) story of Millie, his beloved golden retriever, and how she taught him to be a more compassionate person, deepened his faith, and inspired him on his long-term path of recovery from addictionwith a foreword by Debbie Macomber.
As he did in the Edgar®-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards–winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie expert and archivist John Curran once again examines the unpublished notebooks of the world's bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson that serves as a tribute to the life and work of the electrical engineer and inventor Fleeming Jenkin.
Intersectional in approach, this volume of Advances in Gender Research offers an overview of the ways in which environments - broadly defined to include social, natural and built territories, domains and habitats - are gendered.
