An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life.
A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most famous people in the world.
"e;This girl is a real novelist,"e; wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood.
During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more.
Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century's great American composers, spent time studying in Paris.
During his early years, Franz Liszt worked as a traveling piano virtuoso, his adventures highlighted by his entree into the literary world as a correspondent for the most popular French journals of his time.
Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet.
A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence offers a Northern counterpart to the great collection of Southern family letters published in The Children of Pride.
**MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year**The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friendA towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm 'Mal' Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles' inner circle.
"e;This girl is a real novelist,"e; wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood.
Viaje a Oxiana, clasico entre clasicos de la literatura de viajes, relata la travesia de Robert Byron a principios de la decada de 1930 para llegar a Oxiana, la tierra del Oxus, el hoy rio Amu Darya.
Abre una ventana íntima y reveladora al universo cotidiano, familiar y empresarial del historiador y bibliógrafo Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1825-1894).
Mit Band 92 liegt der Briefwechsel zwischen Karl May und seinem zu Lebzeiten wichtigsten Verleger Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld aus Freiburg im Breisgau komplett vor.
Charles Baudelaire, uno de los más grandes e influyentes poetas de la historia de la literatura, el primer moderno, además de escribir sus geniales poemas mantuvo una intensa relación epistolar con su madre.
Un documental que ilumina las redes de comunicacion y colaboracion entre dos destacados eruditos del siglo XIX: el historiador y bibliografo mexicano Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta y el abogado y bibliografo franco-estadounidense Henry Harrisse.
Por que elegir a Alice Domon, la religiosa francesa desaparecida en 1977, para escribir una biografia como tesis de candidatura al doctorado en Filosofia de la Universidad de Buenos Aires?
Bianka Bleier setzt ihre beleibte Buchreihe fort und präsentiert wieder ein wunderbar erzähltes Tagebuch voller Herz, Ehrlichkeit, Lebenshunger und Charme - und mit einem Glauben, der sich gerade in den Hochs und Tiefs des Lebens als tragfähig zeigt: »Jede Zeit, jede Dekade meines Lebens hat ihr Schönes - auch die, über die mein Tagebuch hier erzählt!
Un día más en el Universo reúne las mejores aperturas de Últimos Cartuchos, el programa radial de culto conducido por Migue Granados y Martín Garabal y emitido por Vorterix en Argentina.
Was im Dezember 2012 in Berlin mit einem Konzert im Jugendhaus Königsstatt begann, endete schließlich im November 2019 in der zweimal ausverkauften Berliner Columbiahalle.
«Esta mañana de mis setenta años ha amanecido en calma y sin viento: el mar es azul pálido y, aunque los campos todavía se ven de color tierra parda, por fin empiezan a asomar los primeros narcisos.
