Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia.
Für Sándor Márai ist 1945 ein Schicksalsjahr, es ist der Untergang der alten Welt, das Ende des bürgerlichen Zeitalters, dem er mit Leib und Seele angehörte.
Der Mord an Jürgen Ponto und die FolgenEin bewegendes Buch aus der Sicht von zwei Frauen, deren Familien einst eng miteinander verbunden waren und die durch den Mord an Jürgen Ponto auseinandergerissen worden sind.
"In den Märchen über Inzest zwischen Vater und Tochter – ›Das Mädchen ohne Hände‹, ›Allerleirauh‹, in der Originalversion von ›Aschenputtel‹ und den Geschichten der Heiligen Dymphna, der Patronin aller Inzest-Opfer – verhalten sich die Töchter immer genauso, wie man es von ihnen erwarten würde: Sie sind entsetzt über die sexuellen Annäherungen ihrer Väter.
Extrait : "Au commencement du XIXe siècle vivait à Boulogne-sur-Mer, une famille bourgeoise jouissant d'une certaine aisance et parfaitement apparentée, du nom de Paillet-Dupont, en ménage depuis le 17 janvier 1786.
The instant Sunday Times top ten bestsellerA Guardian Book of the YearAn Evening Standard Book of the YearAn Independent Book of the YearNetgalley's non-fiction Book of the YearA national treasure's journey to the brink and back.
"e;That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hearand very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr.
The perfect gift for any theatre loverThere has been always as much drama offstage as on at the National Theatre, and much of it is to be found in the letters, telegrams, scribbled notes and colourful postcards of its main players.
Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the South Atlantic is well known.
FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE 'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' Los Angeles Times Book Review An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.
'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus 300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens.
In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another.
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.
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "e;a marvelously piercing fiction"e; (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize.
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