Als der Jude Heinz Magnus während des Zweiten Weltkrieges vor den Nationalsozialisten von Hamburg nach Argentinien flieht, ahnt er nicht, wer ihm dort begegnen wird: Nazis.
Demystifying the "e;Poet Laureate of Depression"e; Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad--Jane Kenyon's complexity and contradictions found expression in luminous poems that continue to attract a passionate following.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Rom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring's romance novels.
A FASCINATING TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, INTRIGUE AND UNFORGIVABLE BETRAYAL, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Readers LOVE Capote's Women: 'A genuinely fascinating account of a great writer and his muses.
The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.
The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.
L'opéra imaginé par Hélène Dorion et écrit à quatre mains avec Marie-Claire Blais est ici offert dans son intégralité et présenté par les librettistes qui en racontent la mise au monde.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751), Gottseibeiuns der französischen Frühaufklärung, lebte als Arzt, Sozialreformer und klandestiner Autor und Philosoph gleich mehrere Leben, ehe er – von Diderot, Voltaire und dem halben intellektuellen Europa gehasst – in Potsdam seinen berühmten Pastetentod starb.
Wien, 1920: Die Monarchie ist Geschichte, die Erste Republik steht auf unsicheren Beinen, da beschließt der Bankier und dilettierende Schriftsteller Richard Kola, ein Verlagshaus zu gründen – nicht irgendeins, sondern das größte Österreichs.
A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux "e;A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.
'Key to understanding Black British history' - The Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction.
This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters - freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness - and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism.
This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell's ideas about free speech and related matters - freedom of the press, the writer's freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness - and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism.
La correspondencia de José Ortega y Gasset con Victoria Ocampo, entre 1917 y 1941, ofrece una riquísima vertiente histórica y emocional en que fluyen afinidades, encuentros, disensos y transferencias personales que abarcan un extenso horizonte cultural y generacional a disposición del lector aficionado al género biográfico y de interés para investigadores y estudiosos del hispanismo internacional.
Stefan Zweig, reconocido como uno de los mayores biógrafos de todos los tiempos, examina con su habitual perspicacia y sutileza la vida y obra de tres grandes escritores, y queda fascinado por la lucidez de Tolstói, la imparcialidad de Casanova y la ambigüedad de Stendhal.
A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around himincluding conservative thinker William F.
In the early fall of 1958, the notorious Olympia Press in Paris published a novel entitled Candy, an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide by one Maxwell Kenton, pseudonym of its coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg.
A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women's power in an often-unsafe world through the lens of Vicky's Foster's own traumatic background.
In his autobiography Mark Twain tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence-ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: Now, then, that is the tale.
