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.
The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle Earth is a comprehensive biography of the linguist and writer; taking the reader from his formative years of home-schooling, through the spires of Oxford, to his romance with his wife-to-be on the brink of war, and onwards into his phenomenal academic success and his creation of the seminal high fantasy world of Middle Earth.
Meet the Governor who read the Bible to Sally Rand; English Bob, the nose-biter, and all the luscious damozels, in this fabulous potpourri of stories by Billy Rose, author of the syndicated column PITCHING HORSESHOES.
'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.
Unzählige Bestsellerplatzierungen, höchst erfolgreiche Romanverfilmungen, Bühnenfassungen, die ein breites Publikum begeistern – Iny Lorentz ist ein Phänomen, das Millionen Menschen in den Bann zieht.
'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.
Carla Lane's enchanting autobiography fizzes with the wry humour, sharp insights and fabulous characterization one would expect from the author of such award-winning TV dramas as the Liver Birds, Bread and Butterflies.
Este libro se sirve de los recursos bibliográficos existentes hasta el día de hoy y recupera información inédita de archivos familiares e institucionales para construir, con una amplia mirada de contexto y con nutridas referencias culturales, un prolijo relato de la existencia individual y social de Tomás Carrasquilla.
This remarkable double biography celebrates the interlocking lives of two of the greatest eccentrics of the 20th century: the brilliant and bizarre Quentin Crisp and the outlandish Philip O'Connor, whose careers first became entwined in Fitzrovia during the Second World War.
In these warm, happy memoirs of one of America's most beloved radio, television, and stage stars, a woman who has delighted millions of people tells her own wonderful story, from the arrival of her grandfather in this country to her triumph in the Broadway hit A Majority of One.
Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site.
Poseedor de una de las plumas más notables e incisivas de nuestra lengua y pieza clave en la consolidación de las instituciones educativas de México, Jaime Torres Bodet nos lega en sus memorias un fiel testimonio de su paso por dichas instituciones y por el Servicio Exterior Mexicano.
William Shakespeare: seine Zeit, sein Werk und dessen Wirkung - auf 100 Seiten hat Stefana Sabin alles Wissenswerte über den Barden von Avon zusammengefasst.
Johann Wolfang von Goethe – Dichterfürst und FreigeistWer deutsche Literatur und die große Philosophie der Aufklärung verstehen will, der sollte Goethes Leben und Werke gut kennen.
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an account of a phenomenon and a legend in her lifetime, Barbara Cartland.
BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER'The Swimmer is a wonderful, original achievement; teeming with stories, glittering with images, and experimental in form and tone' Robert MacfarlaneRoger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog, was a man of many parts: maverick ad-man, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter and filmmaker.
