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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the ……続きを見る
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It is believed that in 1665, James Stevenson in Nether Carsewell, parish of Neilston, county of Renfrew, and presumably a tenant farmer, married one……続きを見る
著者:Nigel Patten
出版社: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co.
発売日: 2013年11月14日
Une passion incompatible raconte lhistoire dramatisée des derniers trois mois dans la vie du poète activiste, Percy Bysshe Shelley.----Au printemps 1822, Percy et sa deuxième épouse, Mary Woolstonec……続きを見る
著者:Peter Kraus
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2011年10月24日
Das Geheimnis eines langen und erfolgreichen Lebens
Künstler, die so lange im Geschäft sind wie Peter Kraus, gibt es eigentlich gar nicht. Seine Karriere dauert nun schon über 50 Jahre an und viele ……続きを見る
著者:Samuel Johnson
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2010年01月28日
Lives that Never Grow Old
Part of a radical series –edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson’s book is a biographical masterpiece, still t……続きを見る
著者:Golgotha Press
出版社: BookCaps Study Guides
発売日: 2013年05月06日
You know their works, but do you know their lives? Do you know what inspired them to write some of the greatest literature the world has ever known? This book contains profiles of five different Am……続きを見る
‘I am almost exclusively a writer, and my style is all I have’, wrote Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). Best known for his deeply controversial 1955 novel Lolita, Nabokov is celebrated as a prolific aut……続きを見る
An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actors
Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central im……続きを見る
著者:Leslie Cockburn
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年07月31日
News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared p……続きを見る
Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a
private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. He explores his ……続きを見る
著者:Jill Ker Conway
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年06月22日
In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthoodーa journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, idea……続きを見る
This changes everything we thought we knew about John Steinbeck. After languishing in the CIA's archives for 60 years, a letter is uncovered in John Steinbeck's own hand that shatters everything his……続きを見る
著者:Paul Baines
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年01月04日
So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Alexander……続きを見る
著者:Sylvia Plath
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
**The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plathーessential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work.
"A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contai……続きを見る
著者:Michael Korda
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年12月21日
In his remarkable memoir, at once frank, audacious, canny, and revealing, Michael Korda, the author of Charmed Lives and Queenie, does for the world of books what Moss Hart did for the theater in Ac……続きを見る
The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was dangerously bold and deeply enigmatic. This controversial biography opens up the secrets and contradictions of this globally renowned Polish journalist a……続きを見る
Spring was late in 1913 and Edward Thomas decided to go and search for winter’s grave and the tell-tale signs of season’s turn. On Good Friday, March 21st, Thomas set out to cycle westwards from Lon……続きを見る
Souvenirs de son adolescence en pleine nature, dans le Pays Craonnais :
Oeuvre plaisante, pittoresque, reflétant les paysages et les moeurs du Haut Anjou, avec quelques pages émouvantes qui annoncen……続きを見る
From Eudora Welty's memoir of childhood to May Sarton's reflections on her seventieth year, writers' journals offer an irresistible opportunity to join a creative thinker in musing on the eventsーwh……続きを見る
著者:Maurice Gee
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2013年04月03日
Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a ……続きを見る
If you want to understand how modern media has changed the world, this is the one book you must read.
Rupert Murdoch is the man everyone talks about but no one knows. He’s everywhere, a larger-than-……続きを見る
著者:Sara Nelson
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年10月05日
“Will make many readers smile with recognition.”ーThe New Yorker
“Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”ーPeople
**“This book is bliss.”ー**The Boston Globe
Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, t……続きを見る
The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey.
Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord o……続きを見る
The letters of Cicero are of a very mixed character. Many sides of Cicero's life other than the political are reflected in these letters. The period covered by them is one of the most interesti……続きを見る
著者:William H. Gass
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年08月07日
The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- a……続きを見る
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter describes Bair’s struggle for independence and acceptance within the male-dominated farming and ranching culture of her birth. As a portrait of one ……続きを見る
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The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
Arthur Train was a Harvard-educated and well-respected at……続きを見る