Biography: writers

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

A literary cult figure on a par with Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel has remained an enigma ever since he disappeared, along with his archive, inside Stalin's secret police headquarters in May of 1939.

This book introduces the reader to the work of the neglected Welsh dramatist J.

Although readers of modern literature have always known about the collaboration of W.

At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W.

It's been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b.

Georgien – ein Land, dessen einzigartige Schrift, tief verwurzelte religiöse Traditionen und reiches kulturelles Erbe eine literarische Geschichte von unvergleichlicher Tiefe und Schönheit hervorgebracht haben.

Evelyn Juers' extraordinary book is a unique imagining of the unconventional love affair between the writer and political activist Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger - a tall, blonde ex-barmaid twenty-seven years his junior - recounting their flight from Nazi Germany in 1933, to France and then to Los Angeles.

Like millions of other readers and moviegoers, as a youngster the late Robert W.

Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker.

Essayist, social critic, poet, "e;mad farmer,"e; novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels.

A critical appraisal of the literary art of a great Byzantine text by the first woman historian, Anna Komnene.

WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER?

Carol Loeb Shloss creates a compelling portrait of a complex relationship of a daughter and her literary-giant father: Ezra Pound and Mary de Rachewiltz, Pound's child by his long-time mistress, the violinist Olga Rudge.

An ';extraordinarily brilliant' and ';pleasurably naughty' (Andr Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemyand who the Bard might really be.

Schota Rustaweli, Autor des unvergänglichen Meisterwerks Der Ritter im Pantherfell, gilt als einer der größten Dichter der georgischen Kulturgeschichte.

From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross“Extremely entertaining.

Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote--his literary genius and flamboyant life-style--details of his childhood years spent in Monroeville, Alabama, have remained a mystery.

This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period.

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From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America.

At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world.

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Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists.

Nicaragua es la patria de los escritores de Centroamérica, desde Rubén Darío hasta el padre Ernesto Cardenal, desde Salomón de la Selva hasta José Coronel Urtecho, desde Claribel Alegría y Daisy Zamora hasta Gioconda Belli, desde Ernesto Mejía Sánchez (quien vivió entre nosotros muchos años y fue miembro de El Colegio de México, entonces dirigido por don Alfonso Reyes) hasta Sergio Ramírez, autor de Margarita, está linda la mar, título de una de sus novelas, tomado de un poema del padre del modernismo, Rubén Darío, el que cubrió de "Azul…" a la literatura del futuro de América Latina.

The third book in V.

Sommerfrische in Bayern, 1918.

John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost.

Eine intellektuelle Biographie über Fremdheit und Ortlosigkeit, im Schreiben wie im Leben.

'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William GodwinWilliam Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice.

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters.

This three-volume collection brings together the best of C.

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy.

Anna Jameson is best known for her 1838 publication, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, the product of her brief visit to the country in 1836-7.

"e;[A] moving, funny, hauntingly brilliant memoir about marriage.

Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work.

'A wonderful book Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel.

Hansjoachim Kienes »Porträt einer Frau in ihrer Welt« macht den Leser nicht nur mit dem Leben von Schillers Lotte bekannt, sondern bezieht auch Schiller als eigentliche Hauptperson gebührend mit ein; und es vermittelt ein detailliertes Bild von der damaligen Epoche, insbesondere vom Weimar der klassischen Zeit.

After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas.

A collection of four novellas, Different Seasons includes some of Stephen King's most enduring and well-known works, including "e;Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,"e; which was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption, and "e;The Body,"e; which was made into the movie Stand by Me.

In February 1910, the young woman who would become Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history.