"Ein erschütterndes Buch, aber es ist eine heilsame, eine befreiende Erschütterung, eine hilfreiche, mit der man deutlich weiter kommt als mit aller wohltuenden Erträglichkeit. [...] im Kern eine Li……続きを見る
In 1998 John Bayley wrote a best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir of his wife, the great philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease since 1996. At tim……続きを見る
Dieses eBook: "Briefe eines Verstorbenen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871) war ei……続きを見る
Francis Scott Fitzgerald's 'My Lost City & Other Autobiographical Essays' is a collection of introspective and revealing essays that offer a glimpse into the life and mind of one of the greatest Ame……続きを見る
"I enjoyed Outrageous Fortune immensely. Its wonderful mix of the personal and the legal makes it hugely gripping and very moving. It's a terrific read." David Hare
"A harrowing tale of one man's lo……続きを見る
著者:Adam Gopnik
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2001年12月18日
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagin……続きを見る
A landmark book written by household names in journalism, among them Kerry O'Brien, Chris Masters and Caroline Jones, this is the first book from FOUR CORNERS in 26 years and will be the must-have b……続きを見る
A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Joh……続きを見る
著者:V. S. Naipaul
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年11月02日
**The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation.
“Bracing, surprisi……続きを見る
著者:Mark Twain
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年01月01日
In A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain’s unofficial sequel to The Innocents Abroad, the author records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights while on a fifteen-month walking trip through Centra……続きを見る
Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James ext……続きを見る
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2012年09月10日
Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguis……続きを見る
著者:John Simpson
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2011年02月25日
In a Quick Read published for World Book Day, bestselling author and internationally renowned BBC journalist John Simpson shares some of his fascinating stories from a life spent reporting around th……続きを見る
This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains Henry Adams' most memorable works, including 'The Education of Henry Adams,' his autobiography which won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1919. I……続きを見る
著者:Lonnie A. Burnett
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2009年06月15日
One editor. One era. A pen that cut through history.
This book is a biography of Alabama native John Forsyth Jr. and documents his career as a southern newspaper editor during the antebellum, Civil ……続きを見る
Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James Joyce
James Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, but he was not immediately recognised as such; ra……続きを見る
著者:Michael Reynolds
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2012年05月28日
"Excellent…Reynolds is as good on the Paris writing as he is on the Paris life." ーTimes Literary Supplement
The 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, wheth……続きを見る
著者:Joshua Kendall
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年03月13日
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, a "brisk and vivid"( Los Angeles Times) account of an obsessive scholar.
Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of……続きを見る
I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Nobody shall be invited to stay with me, and if anyone……続きを見る
著者:T. S. Eliot
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2013年07月16日
T. S. Eliot writes the letters contained in this volume during a period of weighty responsibilities as husband and increasing demands as editor and publisher. He cultivates the support of prominent ……続きを見る
A collections of anecdotes, reviews and essays, written with the humour and warmth one associates with Brian Aldiss.
In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world’s pre-eminent SF write……続きを見る
This third and final part to the I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk trilogy begins in a Winnipeg jail cell in 1984 and ends twenty-years later in Vancouver. This first hand account of the punk life……続きを見る
著者:E. Lynn Harris
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年11月28日
For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--hi……続きを見る
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?
This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), wh……続きを見る
'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948
Sean O'Casey's s……続きを見る
‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ – The Times
In 1964 V. S. Naip……続きを見る
著者:bell hooks
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2013年06月04日
In Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, award-winning author and renowned academic “bell hooks reveals the heart of her writing life and the process through which she has come to be known as a ‘v……続きを見る
著者:Harold K. Bush
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2008年02月15日
Discover the spiritual depths behind America’s greatest humorist.
Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, how……続きを見る