Biography: writers

»Mein Deutschtum ist in dem kosmopolitischen Universum, das Amerika heisst, am richtigsten untergebracht.

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Auf seinen Streifzügen durch Bibliotheken und Archive, auf den Forschungsreisen nach Prag oder Israel stößt der Kafka-Biograph Reiner Stach immer wieder auf unglaubliche Funde: Handschriftliche Ungereimtheiten, unerwartete Fotografien, Briefausschnitte und Zeugnisse von Zeitgenossen, die ein überraschendes Licht auf die Persönlichkeit und das Schreiben Franz Kafkas werfen.

Die groß angelegte Kafka-Biographie von Reiner Stach übt eine sogartige Wirkung aus.

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Wie kein anderer deutscher Dichter hat Kleist die Leser fasziniert.

Eine neue Deutung von Flaubert als Wegbereiter der ModerneFlaubert gilt als »Vater« und Erneuerer der modernen Literatur.

Fünfzig Jahre lang lebte Katia Mann an der Seite Thomas Manns und hielt sich stets diskret im Hintergrund.

Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.

Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate.

Lo que comenzó como una conferencia sobre "Las mujeres y la novela" para un auditorio de estudiantes universitarias en 1928, se ha convertido en uno de los ensayos más emblemáticos del feminismo.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE YOUNG GUARD - World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:PoemsConsecrationLord's LeaveLast PostThe Old BoysRuddy Young GingerThe Ballad of Ensign JoyBond and FreeShell-Shock in ArrasThe Big ThingForerunnersUppingham SongWooden CrossesMemoirNotes of a Camp Follower on the Western FrontE.

An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years.

';The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books' (The Wall Street Journal) in this Edgar Awardnominated celebration of the famously private V.

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times In this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th centurySylvia Plath and Anne Sexton';the friendship and rivalry that the pair sharednot to mention the titular cocktails at a Boston hotelis explored in fascinating detail' (Town & Country).

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today.

Dieses eBook: "Majestät: König Ludwig II.

';Bernie Schein is the funniest man alive, or so he has dogmatically maintained during the burdensome decades I have known him.

Dieses eBook: "Bekenntnisse eines Ichmenschen: Das Leben des Henri Brulard (Autobiografie + Tagebücher)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Equal parts nostalgic, witty, self-serving, and frank, Connecticut Yankee is an entertaining and informative memoir of the state and a scholar who shaped it.

9:11 No More Fear is a collection of spiritual and healing poems meant to remind us, that in our darkest moments in life, seeking God's love can give us the hope we need to lift us out of despair.

Dieses eBook: "SCHILLER - Lebensgeschichte in 6 Bänden" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Josephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952).

"e;Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me.

"e;I've read a beautiful perfect book.

*** 'This powerful, speaking-truth-to-power book is an essential read for everybody who wants to stop feeling clueless and helpless about the impacts of cosumerism, and start doing their part to help create a more sustainable world' - Layla Saad 'A critique on what we buy, how it's made and the systems behind it that make an unfair and broken cycle' - New York Times 'The book is a blueprint for anyone who wants to do better' - VOGUE 'SUCH integrity.

Fresh from the award-winning Woodmansterne studio, Hysterical Heritage juxtaposes imagery inspired by the Bayeaux Tapestry with modern day expressions and dilemmas, resulting in a hilarious and unique, new humour range.

An amazing guide to some of the most beloved, original, inspiring, hysterical, heart-warming, compelling, rude and downright scary books that have enchanted children the world over.

Emilio Becher (1882-1921) fue el primer pensador argentino que, ya en los años iniciales de este siglo, enjuició con dureza las bases mismas de la sociedad moderna, democrática y tecnificada, hacia la cual el país daba entonces pasos rápidos y seguros.

No one is more responsible for Britain"e;s current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007).

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers.

A new, updated edition, with a new foreword of Andrew Keen's witty and provocative polemic against the rise of user-generated content and the anything goes standards of much online publishing, which set the blogosphere and media alight on publication.

On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York.

A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik and his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris.

Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction.

Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.

Many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed Brown's vision and work are presented here, with poems appearing among the prose.

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her.

George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes.

LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami.

In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably.

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music.

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world.

The definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins.

**WINNER of the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize**'A major literary talent .

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since.

In What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell covers everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about ourselves and our world.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT.