This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy.
Two of the twentieth century's most fascinating figures, Ernest Hemingway and Ho Chi Minh, grappling with a world in which Western culture and their respective governments were failing them, came to Paris at the same time in the 1920s.
Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine.
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge.
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
In the foreword to Li-Young Lee's first book, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, ';What characterizes Li-Young Lee's poetry is a certain kind of humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding.
Don Pablo de Santamaría y 16 epístolas es una obra notable de Fernán Pérez de Guzmán, importante escritor y biógrafo que vivió en España entre 1370 y 1460.
Aunque el original de esta Autobiografía de Ignacio de Loyola quedó archivado durante 150 años, esta obra constituye una pieza importante para entender los Ejercicios espirituales.
This book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munshi Abdullah (1796-1854).
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night.
**WINNER OF THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.
Exploring dislocation and longing, Sarah Krasnostein dives into Peter Carey's literary tour de force, True History of the Kelly Gang, in this latest offering from the stunning Writers on Writers essay series.
Irmgard Keun (1905–1982) veröffentlichte 1931 mit 26 Jahren ihren ersten Roman und galt als eines der großen Talente der deutschen Literatur – doch die Nazis trieben sie ins Exil und verboten ihre Bücher.
New Lands Within The Arctic Circle is a non-fiction book written by Julius Payer, an Austrian explorer who was a member of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition of 1872-1874.
Auszug: "Unter den vielen europäischen Reisenden, die Indien seither besucht haben, hatten nur wenige Auserwählte Gelegenheit, in nähere Berührung mit den indischen Fürstenhöfen zu kommen.
Dieses eBook: "Lelia (Autobiografischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
The first full-length biography of Christopher Okigbo, the most anthologized modern African poet, giving an extended narrative and rounded account of his life and times.
Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos OzIn the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas.
Dieses eBook: "Der Grüne Heinrich (Autobiographischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.