Born Cicely Fairfield in 1892, as a young woman - and a budding actress - Rebecca West changed her name to that of the feminist heroine in Ibsen's play, Rosmersholm .
As a novelist, biographer, editor, and screenwriter, Nicholas Mosley has always been concerned with the central paradox of writing: if by definition fiction is untrue, and biography never complete, is there a form that will enable a writer to get at the truth of a life?
In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time and discovers a brilliant and eccentric woman whose passionate search for success was balanced by an obsession with privacy.
Ein literarisches ReisejournalDas Ende des Kommunismus war für die Völker Osteuropas der Beginn einer Hoffnung und zugleich eine Reise ins gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Elend.
Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son.
With uncompromising frankness and the disciplined simplicity of a poet, Richard Church records his own striving his own voyage home towards maturity of understanding and fulfilment.
Dieses Sachbuch bietet einen Überblick über alle wichtigen Werke Edmond Hamiltons sowie 50 Seiten über Captain Future, inklusive Informationen über das CAPTAIN FUTURE-Magazin, die Fernsehserie und die Comics sowie eine Vorstellung aller Romane und Erzählungen.
Jack Paar, America's midnight maverick, has become the most talked-about, most controversial personality in television by speaking out frankly and frequently-and letting the ratings fall where they may.
Bezaubernd und außergewöhnlichBezaubernd und außergewöhnlichMicio, wie der kleine Guido im Familienkreis genannt wird, wächst in einer Welt von Erwachsenen auf, die Wert auf gute Manieren und gesellschaftliche Abgrenzung legen.
'I have tried to depict Arnold Bennett as a man of character and integrity, a fundamentally innocent humorist, a superlative friend, and, to others, not myself, a difficult personality; but I have worked under considerable difficulties, with many interruptions, and the result may be unsatisfactory.
It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkableJohn Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life and his work has continuing significance for contemporary debates about ethics, politics and economics.
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) gehört mit ihren Gedichten, Hörspielen, Libretti, Essays und Erzählungen und dem Romanzyklus Todesarten, von dem nur Malina fertiggestellt wurde, zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Autorinnen des 20.
In 1921 there burst upon the New York social scene the famous Morgan twins, Thelma and Gloria, whose names in the decade that followed came to spell glamour and excitement in that magic world of the "e;international set.
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty.
The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.
The autobiography of famous actor and vaudevillian Otis Skinner who trod the boards in the early 1900's, this book is filled with anecdotes of a bygone age.
Friedrich Schiller – Militärarzt und feuriger DramatikerDer erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Literaturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zum wichtigsten deutschen Dramatiker des "Sturm und Drang" Friedrich Schiller: "Kunst ist nur dann schön, wenn sie der Vernunft entspricht.
