Extrait : "Par une belle matinée du mois d'août 1868, mon meilleur ami, celui qui partage exactement mes peines et mes joies, et, pour tout dire, mon linge aussi, était arrêté, à l'angle de la rue Vavin, en extase devant un melon.
Cette œuvre est ainsi décrite dans le discours préliminaire : "Les Mémoires de Mme de Vandeul" sur son père sont un des ouvrages où ont le plus puisé les biographes modernes de Diderot.
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: "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.
2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Rebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story "e;Life in the Iron-Mills,"e; set in her native Wheeling, West Virginia.
Readers familiar with Sallie Bingham's 1989 memoir, Passion and Prejudice, will remember her provocative chronicle of the Bingham family saga, cited by Gloria Steinem as "e;a major step toward feminist change and democracy.
"e;Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history.
In The Outlaw Jn Gnarr describes the harsh world of his teenage years and wrestles with painful, bleak memories of this troubled stage of his life, physically abused and surrounded by suicides.
The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("e;the Spanish language Nobel"e;), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat.
Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more.
This memoir follows a punk rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it's like to look back on those times, knowing all the while that he is still under the threat of three strikes, a twenty-five-to-life prison sentence waiting.
OG (Old Guy) Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant.
In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
When the deacons at Mark Beaver's Bible Belt church cue up an evangelical horror flick aimed at dramatizing Hell, he figures he'd better get right with God, and soon.
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.
American Book Award Winner: A ';mesmerizing' memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed).
OPEN THE HEART of Self-Discovery through the Life and Amazing Works of Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman was known as the Good Gray Poet who paved the way for modern American poetry.
Open the Heart of Self-Discovery through the Profound Life and Works of Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau was a lover of Nature and a believer in living the simple life.
Much has been written about Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman as prominent writers, but much less research has been done regarding their spirituality, which gave power to the writing of their unique classics.