Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic.
Karl Otto Conrady zeichnet in seiner Biographie alle wichtigen Stationen des Goetheschen Lebens auf dem Hintergrund der von Kriegen und der Französischen Revolution bestimmten Epoche nach.
Challenging convention with the SF nonconformist Roger Zelazny combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1960s.
Der Band bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die Grundlagen, Theorien und empirischen Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft.
A candid and intimate chapter in the life of a modern woman, Yvette Eastman's vivid narrative also contributes richly to the life story of Theodore Dreiser.
A woman’s passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields “a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir” (The Washington Post).
An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters.
Eugene O'Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright's life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections.
Die Legende des Golems, eines aus Lehm geschaffenen Wesens, das durch mystische Rituale zum Leben erweckt wird, ist tief in der jüdischen Tradition verwurzelt.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between themand their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American historythe novelist and poet Herman Melville (18191891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (18951990).
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors.
In diesem Buch nimmt sich ein Literaturwissenschaftler, der ein Berufsleben lang immer das Andere, Literatur von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern, betrachtet hat, einmal das Eigene vor, ohne aber jenes Andere zu lassen.
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.
In an ';eye-opening memoir' (People) ';as beautiful as it is discomfiting' (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.
Kraftvoll, ehrlich und mit schonungsloser Offenheit schildert Oskar Maria Graf seine Erlebnisse von der Kindheit bis zum Ausgang des Ersten Weltkriegs und der Zeit der Münchner Räterepublik.
Berühmte Recherchen, die RAF und Zeitgeschichte aus der ersten Reihe – der große Journalist erzähltBerühmte Recherchen, die RAF und Zeitgeschichte aus der ersten Reihe – der große Journalist erzählt»Es wurde mir von Tag zu Tag deutlicher bewusst, welches Privileg es war, als ›so eine Art Journalist‹, wie ich immer gern gesagt hatte, am Straßenrand der Geschichte zu stehen.
In Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the later years of a life which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism.
'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esm Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, author of Red Clocks'The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work but it reads like an intimate gift' Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a WolfA DAZZLING MEDITATION ON TEARSIn this symphonic work of non-fiction, Heather Christle explores the most human of behaviours: crying.
Jochen Grevens einführende Essays belegen eindrucksvoll, daß Walsers Werk unter einer inneren Spannung steht, die es unabschließbar, aber auch unauslotbar macht.
Time Must-Read Books of 2024Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024Mojo Books of the Year 2024"e;A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma"e; Guardian"e;A powerful portrait"e; Irish Independent"e;Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than most to catching up with Mitchell on her lonely road"e; TimesCelebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni MitchellWhat you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell.
John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797--1841) -- pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "e;business brother.
In 1986, after years of publishing stories in literary magazines and periodicals, Mary Ward Brown published her first book, the story collection Tongues of Flame.
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'
