Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Este libro pretende ser una ayuda para las personas que han asistido al retiro de Emaús.

Mientras se documentaba para su monumental biografía de Franz Kafka, Reiner Stach visitó numerosas bibliotecas y archivos de Praga e Israel, donde hizo incontables hallazgos fascinantes: manuscritos de una picardía o ternura extraordinarias, fotografías sorprendentes, fragmentos de cartas y testimonios de contemporáneos que vertían una inesperada luz sobre la personalidad y la obra del escritor praguense.

A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.

A revolutionary, entertaining and readable rewriting of the history of the novel.

The 'bible' for dice living - for everyone who has been inspired by the cult classic THE DICE MAN.

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to write the novel that's in you bursting to get out.

Matthew Dennison creates a revealing portrait of the brave and charismatic Vita, in the first biography of her to be written for thirty years.

An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books.

A fascinating collection of letters from the great English novelist - and prolific correspondent - Penelope FitzgeraldAcclaimed for her exquisitely elegant novels - including the Booker Prize-winning 'Offshore' - and superb biographies, Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most admired authors in Britain during the last century.

This is the true story of C.

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the story of her remarkable family.

Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence.

An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises.

Does it ring a bell?

CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le CarreA visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.

Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'.

The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski's coming of age in a time of great possibility, during the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and the women's movement.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last' Independent on Sunday'Brilliantly illuminating .

Over the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work.

Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frederic Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood, while spending a night in the cells.

An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father's copious unpublished archives.

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.

Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even - his father's most exotic 1960 stunt - being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.

Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

The first English translation of an Argentinean classic.

The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances.

The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership.

A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before.

'The word "e;mesmerising"e; is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove' Financial Times'Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist.

In Tidings, one of America's best-loved authors paints a vivid scene of an unusual family Christmas.

'He loved all mankind; for fortune prevented him from knowing there were rascals.

The second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826.

'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences.

Estos resúmenes de citas conforman un hermoso testimonio de los alumnos y las alumnas de primer año de Medicina, que refleja la visión que ellos tienen de su futura profesión, dan cuenta de una perspectiva humanista, integral, de análisis crítico de la situación actual de salud y de gran entusiasmo en contribuir a un sistema de salud más justo.

Perry Payne, Erfolgsautor, freier Journalist und Moderator bei SofaTalk24 präsentiert die besten Schreibtechniken, gibt wichtige Ratschläge zum Buchmarketing und nennt Anregungen und konkrete Hilfe zum besseren Schreiben, Nachbearbeiten und Veröffentlichen.

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The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct.

'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin.

Crecimos admirando el Boom.

Si la reflexión acerca de la coexistencia de identidades nacionales en un territorio geográfico y discursivo, la descentralización del poder global, sus reproducciones y vestigios, y, sobre todo, la pregunta por lo hereditario —que comprende determinismos biológicos y culturales— como obstáculo para la organización de sociedades en estados de derecho, son puntos neurálgicos del pensamiento humanístico contemporáneo, El Sombrero del Sur (2011) es una novela de carácter evidentemente actual.

'I see her now - cousin Phillis.

The publication of Robinson Crusoe in London in 1719 marked the arrival of a revolutionary art form: the novel.

One of the earliest American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s.