Literary 15

The second volume of Michel Leiris’s hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the m……続きを見る

Written and illustrated by Boris Johnson The nicest kids you ever saw Were Jim and Molly Albacore… Alas for Molly and Jim, Their lives were not entirely cushy: Their parents were so very pushy. Mr a……続きを見る

Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to re……続きを見る

A poetic journey, telling stories about life and death. Many poems about important events or about significant people in my life. Real facts and real feelings rearranged in different poetic construc……続きを見る

This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled hi……続きを見る

"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth." Louis S. Auchincloss An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, o……続きを見る

Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This amazing and complex epic, combining politics, religion, human evolution, and ecology, has captured the imagination of generations of readers. One of the mos……続きを見る

Born Cicely Fairfield in 1892, as a young woman - and a budding actress – Rebecca West changed her name to that of the feminist heroine in Ibsen's play, Rosmersholm . West was a passionate suffragis……続きを見る

Over the past year I made a series of posts on my blog to relate incidents from my life so far. Encouraged by the interest that they aroused, I decided to compile them into a free ebook to reach eve……続きを見る

Only nothingness exists, but I don't give a shit... too dead inside to care. 続きを見る

Some sample anecdotes: 1) Fan fictionーfiction written by fans using the characters they are fans ofーhas been around for longer than you may think. When Ray Bradbury was 12 years old in the early 1……続きを見る

Communication is key. This is the number one rule of all relationships. For Abbie and Ryder, this key unlocks many doors that should have stayed locked. Breaking Free is a tale of love and pain, wov……続きを見る

**Une vie en mieux Dans "Une vie en mieux", découvrez l'histoire captivante d'une femme forte et déterminée qui a surmonté les obstacles pour atteindre ses rêves. Plongez dans les pages de ce récit ……続きを見る

This short 13,000-word pamphlet contains Mark Twain anecdote and quotations and a short biography. Here is a sample anecdote: Humorist Mark Twain, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, once stay……続きを見る

What saved me from going mad in prison was my music and my pen. The words I believe were given to me by God at times when I needed them the most. Let the words of this book tell you the story of a m……続きを見る

Thirty-one poems about a "colorful" housepainter I worked with one summer when I was young. 続きを見る

Tonight, I don't think That I could put down my drink And have to go back to that Lonely, lonesome home Where it all leaves me all alone And there's no one there to hear me say That I wish with all ……続きを見る

Heather Baker believes in fairy tales, and she turns to their timeless wisdom whenever life gets difficult. Again and again, the playfulness, symbolism, and deeper meaning in fairy tales have filled……続きを見る

De Jane Eyre (1847), ciertamente una de las novelas más famosas de estos dos últimos siglos, solemos conservar la imagen ultrarromántica de una azarosa historia de amor entre una institutriz pobre y……続きを見る

Theodore Dreiser was arguably the most important figure in the development of fiction in the twentieth century. And although world-famous for his novels "Sister Carrie" and "Jennie Gerhardt", Theodo……続きを見る

Nous scrutons les étoiles à la recherche de visiteurs, mais s'ils étaient déjà parmi nous ? S'ils attendaient simplement de s’éveiller ? Et si... vous en faisiez partie ? ★★★ Arcadia quitte sa Cité ……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "KATHERINE MANSFIELD - The Woman Behind The Books: The Life of Katherine Mansfield (Including Her Letters, Journals, Essays & Articles)" is formatted for your eReader w……続きを見る

400美元打造40年歐亞美貿易帝國 最低調神祕的傳奇台商 43堂人生經營課，首度公開 1970年代，一個台南出生的台灣囝仔留學紐約。他身上只剩下400美元，從未修過商學院課程，卻大膽從一張租來的辦公桌白手起家，在風……続きを見る

Gareth Jones was a prolific and adventurous journalist who was murdered one day short of his 30th birthday by bandits in China. His brief career, in which he filed more international scoops than mos……続きを見る

An unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid activists An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days……続きを見る

NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japan……続きを見る

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. Iris Murdoch's pioneering study a……続きを見る

In this FREE eBook you will find the inspiration and introduction to David Wyant's new series, "STOLEN IN PARIS: The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway", documenting a series of "Lost but Fou……続きを見る

Some samples: 1) Celebrities often move in the same circles. Just before graduating from high school, actress Jennifer Love Hewitt was being driven around in a car that would next be used to drive a……続きを見る

I wrote 15 short poems that will get you thinking and hopeful learn from. Inspiration and healing through writing was the goal with these poems. Everything from the kind of men we like to the loss o……続きを見る