Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Seit seiner Kindheit träumt John Franklin davon, zur See zu fahren, obwohl er dafür denkbar ungeeignet ist, denn in allem, was er tut, ist er extrem langsam.
Extrait : "Dès le mariage commence ce que l'on pourrait appeler la vie publique de Mme de Craven, nous voulons dire la participation aux idées qui passionnent l'opinion, la fréquentation des groupes influents, ou, plus précisément, la propagande de sa propre et personnelle pensée.
George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over timeOrwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity.
As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood.
A vivid, varied account of a globally-minded woman's intriguing adventures and evolving worldview, Santha Rama Rau's "e;informal"e; autobiography covers a life defined by almost perpetual motion-from her birth in India to an upbringing in England and South Africa, from her education at Wellesley College in the United States to far-flung travel to China, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Spain, and beyond.
Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony PowellJust three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took a new wife.
Extrait : "La Société des Places-aux-Jeunes, dont cette étude est destinée à éterniser le souvenir, – au moins pendant une heure, – florissait dans les dernières années du Second Empire.
For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times.
'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal, comic joy' Amy Bloom'Our new house was waiting for us, eager, expectant, and empty'Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision.
'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'The must-read gift for every runner: a compelling meditation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer.
Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.
Extrait : "Il me semble qu'on fait fausse route quand on veut apercevoir d'abord chez les Allemands des sentiments d'une violence et d'une cruauté anormales, un tempérament furieux.
'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday TelegraphEdna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'.
Extrait : "Smorgoni est une petite ville lithuanienne du palatinat de Wilna, devenue célèbre aujourd'hui, parce que c'est de là que l'empereur Napoléon quitta l'armée pour se rendre à Paris, où sa présence était devenue nécessaire.
Extrait: "Je cède aux désirs et aux raisonnements de mes amis honorables, sans cependant adopter toutes leurs idées ; elles flatteraient mon amour-propre, et je veux rester, en écrivant cet opuscule, calme, vrai et modeste comme toute ma vie ; mais comme eux je pense qu'étant, ainsi que mon père vénéré, enfant du peuple et fils de mes œuvres, je dois laisser à ma famille, à mes amis, le même genre d'héritage qu'il m'a laissé.
This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work of dissident literature drawn from vivid personal experience.
