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In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would p……続きを見る

Camelia Entekhabifard was six years old in 1979 when the shah of Iran was overthrown by revolutionary supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. By the age of sixteen, Camelia was a nationally celebrated……続きを見る

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history – a……続きを見る

A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artistーfrom the award-winning author of Minor Characters In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of her classic memoir, Door Wide Open, about her ……続きを見る

Did you wonder why the Mars Rover did not work for a while. Find the answer here. What did they throw off of the Tallahatchie Bridge? Find out here. What was high school like in the early sixties? A……続きを見る

• illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Introduction I On the Trail of Adventure II The Building of the "Snark" III On the High Seas IV A Pacific Paradi……続きを見る

A small collection of poetry ー I'm not shying away; I haven't come to apologise and take back all I said, every breath I tookーit's my life, nobody else's. I won't pretend any more! The pain is too……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black wo……続きを見る

Caroline Blackwood was born into the Guinness family in 1931, the daughter of the Fourth Marquess and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Brought up on the ancestral estate in Northern Ireland, Blackwo……続きを見る

From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a ……続きを見る

A fascinating new look at a neglected side of Winston Churchill - his life as a professional author - revealing how his most important literary work shaped his role as a world leader, and the histor……続きを見る

We all carry people inside our headsーactors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico I……続きを見る

From the National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow comes an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, a book built from letters and journals, memory and speculation, and infus……続きを見る

Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a surve……続きを見る

Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau "Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an America……続きを見る

Part crusader, part comedian, Jim Murray was a once-in-a-generation literary talent who just happened to ply his trade on newsprint, right near the box scores and race results. During his lifetime, ……続きを見る

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child……続きを見る

Fiction often imitates real-life. That was certainly the case for Oscar Wilde. This book is part biography, part critical study. It examines all of Wilde’s published and unpublished work to see wha……続きを見る

Calva y brillante como la luna Diario de una loba contra el Lupus Mi padre nos advirtió que no éramos hermosas, aun así yo era una extensión feliz de mi cabello, largo……続きを見る

The amnesiac hardboiled writer Dan J. Marlowe (1914-1986) was so good that author Stephen King dedicated a book to him, but his life was more interesting than his books. This biography interwe……続きを見る

Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Histor……続きを見る

A poetic journey from searching to enlightenment. The issues of each generation may be different but the passions for truth and justice are shared. Know this, you will come out of it for the better,……続きを見る

Biography of the great author (first published in 1887). According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victor……続きを見る

'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of ……続きを見る

'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over……続きを見る

A fascinating biography of one of the most famous poets in history: Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written by famed historian and anthropologist Andrew Lang. 続きを見る

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents,……続きを見る

Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 196……続きを見る

**More than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryーthe author of The Metamorphosis and The Trialーto the people in his life, from his years as a student in……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. ‘London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for yea……続きを見る