Biography: writers

Discover the inspiring spiritual legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time has captured the imagination of millions - from literary sensation to timeless classic and now a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling.

Margaret Mitchell was as complex and compelling as her legendary heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, and her story is as dramatic as anything out of her own imaginationindeed, it is the basis for the legend she created.

One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars.

This authoritative biography of writer, poet, and beat generation icon Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) recounts in gripping detail the story of his exceptional life and the key relationships that affected Kerouac's development as an artist, including those with his three wives, numerous girlfriends, and beloved mother.

Ernest Hemingway is a mythic writer and alpha male.

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.

Acclaimed Japanese poet Yorifumi Yaguchi has turned his writing attention to telling what he experienced as a child growing up on the island of Honshu in the late 1930s and '40s.

Award-winning and beloved poet, Jean Janzen, has written her memoir.

This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our timephotographer Toby Molenaar.

An upbeat memoir to savor and admire, Still Alive!

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before.

Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W.

A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "e;early"e; and "e;late"e; workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact.

In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists.

A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writersSaadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Moon and Sixpence: One Man's Journey Across the Field of Art and into Its Depths (Based on Paul Gauguin's Life)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always artistically successful, but a remarkable figure by any standard.

Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate.

This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov.

A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.

From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "e;W.

A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life-yet his poems are anything but conventional.

"Viele Menschen haben sich in der Gegenwart aus den Augen verloren, weil sie es in der Vergangenheit für sinnvoller fanden, ihren Blick in die Zukunft zu richten.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is a foundational work of modern autobiography, at once intimate self-portrait, moral inquiry, and literary experiment.

Dieses eBook: "Das Leben der galanten Damen (Aufsehenerregende Memoiren)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

In "Der Grüne Heinrich" von Gottfried Keller wird die Geschichte des jungen Heinrich Dorn erzählt, der auf der Suche nach seinem Platz in der Welt ist.

Die "Lebensgeschichte des Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué" ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das die Leser in die Welt des 19.

Tagebuch für Stella' ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das sowohl Fans von Jonathan Swift als auch Liebhaber der intimen Briefliteratur ansprechen wird.

In Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (Illustrated Edition), readers are immersed in the intricate world of a young boy who overcomes obstacles to find success in Victorian England.

In 'The Life of William Shakespeare' by Sidney Lee, readers are presented with a comprehensive and meticulously researched biography of the iconic playwright.

Dieses eBook: "Eros' Begräbnis" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "Schloss Meersburg am Bodensee: Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs Dichertheim (Biografie)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "Scheffel - Ein Dichterleben" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Un día de diciembre de 2017, Jesse Ball se dio cuenta de que tenía la misma edad –39 años– que el artista y escritor Édouard Levé cuando escribió su famoso Autorretrato.

'I've never read a book like it.

Der Brief an den Vater ist ein 1919 verfasster, niemals abgeschickter Brief Franz Kafkas an seinen Vater.

'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN WILLIAMS'An unusually intimate and affectionate portrait' PATRICK BARKHAM, GUARDIAN'As a boy I dreamed of scholars and saints wandering around markets and cornfields, and of artists and poets sitting under the trees.

'An excellent anthology' Times Literary Supplement'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTIONI was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile.

In 'Kindheit, Jugend und Krieg' von Theodor Fontane taucht der Leser in eine fesselnde Erzählung ein, die das Leben des Protagonisten von seiner Kindheit bis zum Kriegserlebnis detailliert beschreibt.

In 'Die Erotik' von Lou Andreas-Salomé taucht der Leser in eine tiefgründige Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Erotik ein.

Is it time to take a break from feminism?

In 'The Life & Legacy of Henry David Thoreau', readers are taken on a journey through the life of the famous essayist and transcendentalist.

Joachim Ringelnatz' Buch 'Mein Leben bis zum Kriege & Als Mariner im Krieg' bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Leben des Autors vor und während des Ersten Weltkriegs.

An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous.

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Romane + Novellen + Gedichte + Biografien" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Dieses eBook: "Italienische Reise (Ein Reisetagebuch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

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