Literary 23

"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

工欲善其事，必先利其器，一部準確無誤的萬年曆是研究命學者桌上必備的重要工具書。《八字‧萬年曆》(増訂版)經著名玄學大師蘇民峰長時間精心校勘、編修而成，堪稱善本。全書分為兩大部分：八字及萬年曆。本書內容……続きを見る

葉靈鳳，原名葉蘊璞，江蘇南京人。生於一九○五年，一九二五年加入創造社，一九三○年加入左翼作家聯盟。一九三七年抗日戰爭爆發，在上海參加《救亡日報》工作，一九三八年廣州失守時適在香港，未能北返，遂在香港定……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

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

**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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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