Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever.
An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the darkness can point the way to living beautifully in the midst of a tragic world.
The complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.
*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year**Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian'This is the book Trump fears most.
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control.
James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.
Embark on a journey through the life behind the mother of cozy mysteries like Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None with this captivating literary biography and stunning celebration of Agatha Christie.
A new translation of one of classical Japan's greatest literary works It is from a desire not to let this impulse count for nothing that I have written this foolish tale of mine.
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932; and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began.
En Hipervínculos, Danilo Albero persiste en el buen hábito de cincelar apuntes, artículos, viñetas o como se los quiera llamar, en donde los viajes a sitios insospechados se mezclan con discusiones acerca del arte y la literatura, con apuntes sobre discos de vinilo, de películas en blanco y negro y en tecnicolor, con reflexiones en torno a libros clásicos y a textos desconocidos, con especulaciones referidas a la vida, a la muerte y a sus derivados.
In SALKIĆ VS ORWELL, writer Saidin Salkić turns his attention to his own novella, When Stalin Read Animal Farm, using it as a point of departure for a series of provocative literary essays on George Orwell, political allegory, historical memory, satire, censorship, empire, and the unstable relationship between fiction and power.
'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa GregoryThe dramatic untold story of the three tragic Grey sisters, all heirs to the Tudor throne, all victims to their royal blood.
Clarence Thomas, Verfassungsrichter am Supreme Court, ist als schwarzer Nationalist auch Trumpist: Wie das zusammengeht, erklärt der Rechtswissenschaftler Amadou Korbinian Sow.
Princesas y Guerreras narra en forma de cuento la historia de tres hermanas, trillizas y princesas en un reino fantástico y muy lejano, las cuales se ven envueltas en un viaje de aventuras, superación y conocimiento personal.
Libro de cuentos donde se producen encuentros fantasticos con la musica, las cometas, el trompo, en la recreacion del juego y la amistad en los patios de las casas o en la zona de recreo de la escuela.
Im Essener Norden der 60er und 70er Jahre, zwischen Kiosken, Kneipen und Fußballstadien, wächst Schulabbrecher Uli im Schatten der Zeche Zollverein auf.
Jorge Isaacs: El caballero de los enigmas está centrado en los grandes interrogantes que no han dejado de rodear a Jorge Isaacs, personaje envuelto en los velos de múltiples leyendas.
Bis kurz vor seinem Tod im Dezember 1966 arbeitete Heimito von Doderer akribisch an seinem letzten Werk, dem Roman No 7/II: Der Grenzwald, in dem er Erinnerungen und Motive seines Schreibens seit der sibirischen Kriegsgefangenschaft 1916–1920 verarbeitete.
A mas de dos anos de la desaparicion de Gabriel Garcia Marquez los trabajos aqui reunidos presentan lecturas diversas de periodistas, profesores y escritores alrededor de la persona y la obra de mas relieve en la cultura colombiana, Si el titulo de este libro une el nombre del escritor a la conjuncion de literatura y memoria es porque el hijo mayor del telegrafista de Aracataca nos enseno a contemplar en sus tramas, metaforas e imagenes esa reunion de realidades e irrealidades que es nuestra historia.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
For almost three thousand years, the Odyssey has captured imaginations with seafaring adventure, romance, friendships, as well as feats of heroism and of bloody revenge.
