Biography: writers

Mahmoud Darwish is the poet laureate of the Palestinian national struggle.

Beatrix uses words like she uses paint.

Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study.

The Letters of Kenneth Tynan- drama critic, talent snob, intellectual dandy, inveterate campaigner - provide a record of a soul: written between the ages of 11 and 53, they not only chart the extraordinary parabola of his career but show the constancy of his quest for grace, style and effortless wit.

Confessions of a Young Man (1888) is a memoir by George Moore.

Born of an Anglican mother and a Jewish father who disdained religion, Kaplan knew little of her Judaic roots and less about her famed great-grandfather until beginning her research, more than twenty years ago.

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?

In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.

The Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) hat in ihrem kurzen Leben sechs Romane veröffentlicht, die zu den unvergänglichen Werken der Weltliteratur gehören.

Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.

Von John Ruskin stammen die ersten Schreckensvisionen einer total industrialisierten Welt.

Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects.

Includes the plays The River Line, The Flashing Stream and The Burning GlassCharles Morgan was a distinguished novelist before he moved onto stage drama, with his reputation as a major dramatist established by his first play, The Flashing Stream.

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century.

Ogden Nash was a rare poet.

“If you are looking to understand a bit more about the circumstances that inspired The Adventures of Tintin—this book will provide a good snapshot.

James McCarroll (1814-1892) was a talented Irish poet, journalist, humorist, musician, and arts critic who left his mark on nineteenth-century Canada by seemingly engaging with anything topical in every medium.

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published.

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare''s life and times.

The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky were all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian hero of WWII.

Das Erbe seines Vaters hat Lukas Bärfuss ausgeschlagen: Es waren vor allem Schulden.

"Ein Autor ohne Biographie – das wollte Doderer sein und daher als Person ganz hinter seinem Werk verschwinden.

Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th centurySylvia Plath and Anne Sextonbecame bitter rivals and, eventually, friends.

Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter "e;Rudy"e; Rucker-mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker.

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

A memoir and meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and deals with the reasons for her withdrawal from writing and the events in her life since the death of her mother (as detailed in Silences, or a Woman's Life).

"e;The Recluse"e; is part one of an unfinished philosophical poem by William Wordsworth.

Informed by newly available diaries and correspondence, here is the first comprehensive biographical and critical study of this enigmatic writer whose tragic suicide at the age of thirty-one served to plunge her fascinating body of work into obscurity.

"Je suis en route …"So beginnt Christoph W.

Mary MacLeod (Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland.

Conversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond our national borders to bring Native American characters and themes to the global stage.

Dieses Werk setzt ein, wo Goethe-Biographien aufzuhören pflegen: mit Goethes Nachruhm und dem Verhältnis der späteren Generationen zu »Deutschlands größtem Dichter«.

Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days.

Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon (b.

**A FINANCIAL TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A remarkable feat' OBSERVER'Clever, wide-ranging.

In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.

Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902) is a posthumously published autobiography by Walter Besant.

The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "e;one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals"e; (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the city of Jerusalem in the era of the dissolution of Mandatory Palestine and the beginning of the State of Israel.

Infused with southern charm, this irresistibly weird and wonderful story chronicles Slash Coleman's upbringing in a warped but warm-hearted household of eccentric artists.

Two Blankets, Three Sheetsdoes for the beleaguered political asylum seeker stuck in legal limbo what Joseph HellersCatch-22did for the hapless soldier trapped in a military at warTranslated from the Dutch into nimble and conversational English by Jonathan Reederit is a tale for and of our time.

Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer.

At first consideration, it would seem that Shakespeare and Monty Python have very little in common other than that they're both English.

The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read.

Das außergewöhnliche Porträt eines Jahrhundertschriftstellers Mit »Im Westen nichts Neues« schrieb Erich Maria Remarque einen der berühmtesten und erfolgreichsten Romane des 20.