El infatigable Italo Calvino habría cumplido cien años el 15 de octubre de 2023 si el esfuerzo excesivo que conlleva ser, entre otras cosas, «diligente redactor editorial» no hubiera acabado con él.
Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive' Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph'Tomalin has written a biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit and insight' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times'Of all the Austen biographies, this is the best .
A page-turner about page-turners Janice Hallett The perfect piece of armchair detection Ruth Ware Hugely entertaining and unexpectedly gripping London Review of BooksA true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.
I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me.
Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions as his origins.
Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper.
A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.
Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her.
First published in 1978 Fa ades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.
'I am making up "e;To the Lighthouse"e; - the sea is to be heard all through it'Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse.
'I am making up "e;To the Lighthouse"e; - the sea is to be heard all through it'Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse.
Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time but have long been unavailable or extremely hard to find.
Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring one of literature's favourite detectives, Sherlock Holmes.
Fieles a los objetivos y proyectos expuestos por el GEXEL desde su fundacion, la revista Sansuena pretende contribuir a la reconstruccion de la memoria historica, cultural y literaria del exilio republicano espanol de 1939, tarea de evidentes implicaciones eticas y politicas.
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time.
Fieles a los objetivos y proyectos expuestos por el GEXEL desde su fundacion, la revista Sansuena pretende contribuir a la reconstruccion de la memoria historica, cultural y literaria del exilio republicano espanol de 1939, tarea de evidentes implicaciones eticas y politicas.
Fieles a los objetivos y proyectos expuestos por el GEXEL desde su fundacion, la revista Sansuena pretende contribuir a la reconstruccion de la memoria historica, cultural y literaria del exilio republicano espanol de 1939, tarea de evidentes implicaciones eticas y politicas.
"e;Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries"e; adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths.
Abarcará temporalmente la producción literaria hispánica desde finales del XIX hasta, aproximadamente, 1950, además de plantear estudios sobre publicaciones, temas y géneros característicos del periodo, cuya salida a la luz podrá servir de descubrimiento para todos aquellos lectores avezados con la suficiente curiosidad intelectual y gusto por nuestras letras.
'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities.
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.
