Literary 35

"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where ……続きを見る

A fascinating look at some of the famous poets and writers of Shakespeare's day, including John Webster, Thomas Heywood and Thomas Dekker. 続きを見る

**It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet an……続きを見る

An epic work of remarkable scope, vigor and passion, W. E. Gutmans latest book is acerbic, iconoclastic and disquieting. In this memoir, he chronicles his life with eloquent, engaging prose that wil……続きを見る

Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. In 1947 Maugham ……続きを見る

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 Ame……続きを見る

In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life rile……続きを見る

In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a ……続きを見る

In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronté Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronté became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected ……続きを見る

Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the firs……続きを見る

The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as the……続きを見る

Qu’est-ce qu’un enfant pas comme les autres? C’est soit un sorcier, soit un Kisimbi répondront sans réfléchir les Bakongo de la RD Congo. Traduit de la langue Kikongo au français, Kisimbi veut dire ……続きを見る

What do you do when life in sunny Southern California starts to seem plastic, materialistic and just plain hellish? For Sonia and Duke Marsh, the answer was to sell their worldly goods and move to ……続きを見る

The definitive biographical guide to poetry throughout the world in the twentieth century and the only book of its kind to look at non-English language poets in such detail. Written in lively prose,……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybo……続きを見る

"Elegantly written, psychologically and historically astute."ーLos Angeles Times Book Review From scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greates……続きを見る

In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek t……続きを見る

Biography of one English novelist by another. According to Wikipedia: "Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Bronte sisters whose novels have beco……続きを見る

Opal Whiteley (1897-1992) remains a mysterious figure. Her life began as a brilliant young girl with a passion for geology and nature living in logging camps in Oregon, and ended as a psychiatric pa……続きを見る

Life as a Literary Device: A Writer's Manual of Survival is both a summation and a new beginning for Vitaliev, Life as a Literary Device is an analysis of how literature has bound his life and an ex……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. ‘Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of th……続きを見る

"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is,' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, ……続きを見る

The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Ma……続きを見る

Part of a literary circle that included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals, ……続きを見る

Fool for Love is Scott Donaldson’s masterful biography of F. Scott Fitzgeraldーwritten from a fresh and highly intimate perspective. Fool for Love follows Fitzgerald from his birthplace in St. Paul,……続きを見る

Published to coincide with his major biography of Iris Murdoch, Peter Conradi’s acclaimed critical appreciation of her work is reissued in a fully revised and updated edition, with a foreword by Joh……続きを見る

A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack Obama Maya Angelou's seve……続きを見る

The publishing sensation of 2006 - the compelling and probing, Jonestown - now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. 'Tough and impassioned this is a finely written and sparkling boo……続きを見る

"Gut-splittingly funny...a deeply moving account of a boy's attempt to control his world with his own brand of magic." --People magazine, 4 stars. Tracey Ullman once described Eric Poole as "the bes……続きを見る

When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas found himself in his mother's fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him throu……続きを見る