Extrait : "Pyrrhus disait à ses soldats qui l'appelaient l'Aigle de l'Épire : Si « je suis l'aigle, vous êtes mes amis, car ce sont vos armes qui m'ont élevé si haut.
In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin.
'Defiant, probing, hot' Saba Sams, author of Send NudesAt the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer.
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.
Extrait : "Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont, naquit à Tonnerre, le 5 octobre 1728, de Louis d'Eon, subdélégué de l'Intendance de Paris, et de Françoise de Charenton.
George Woodcock, critique littéraire, historien et anarchiste, a eu un accès privilégié à la complexe histoire personnelle de George Orwell, dont il fut un ami proche.
Das Debattenbuch zur KlimakriseHeute an die Zukunft denken, bedeutet, an den Klimawandel zu denken, der als Klimakatastrophe, gar als Klimaapokalypse daherkommt.
Extrait : "Depuis 1830, tous les ans plusieurs personnes déposaient à la Chambre des pétitions pour le retour en France des restes mortels de l'empereur Napoléon, et toujours ces pétitions étaient renvoyées, à l'unanimité, au président du conseil.
';Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss.
Extrait : "Dès que la Hollande cessa d'être assez forte pour se défendre contre les prétentions du dehors, et que des discordes intérieures eurent rompu le faisceau de l'union, elle a constamment porté le joug de la domination : l'Angleterre et la France l'ont alternativement asservie.
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sin ad Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li and Zakia Sewell.
Extrait : "Je dois au public quelques détails sur la publication d'une brochure où beaucoup de personnes vivantes figurent d'une manière peu honorable.
In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behind him.
Extrait : "Après avoir reçu de la fortune tout ce qu'elle peut prodiguer de grandeurs et d'adversités, après avoir retracé les brillants et tristes détails de ces vicissitudes dans des souvenirs achevés en 1820, j'espérais que le sort, fatigué de m'accabler, ne me réservait plus que le repos ; je croyais l'avoir obtenu enfin.
Extrait : "Le jour même où l'Église célèbre l'Assomption de la Mère de Dieu, dans cette contrée peuplée d'une race plus dure que ses rochers, plus sauvage que ses bruyères, et que les Romains n'avaient point osé appeler au honteux honneur de leur fournir des esclaves ; plusieurs mois après que la Corse, soustraite à la domination génoise, eut été cédée à la France.
Die Memoiren des bekannten Publizisten Klaus Harpprecht – eine intellektuelle Geschichte der BundesrepublikIn seiner Autobiographie erzählt der große Autor und Journalist Klaus Harpprecht erstmals von seiner eigenen Kindheit und Jugend im schwäbischen Pfarrhaus, vom Verlust beider Brüder im Weltkrieg und vom Chaos der 1940er Jahre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriageWhen a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits.
Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.
Bill Brysons bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarshipupdated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.
