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First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged……続きを見る

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of ……続きを見る

The memoirs of the famous Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. 続きを見る

A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable ……続きを見る

In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit……続きを見る

English translation of Dieter Südhoff's PhD thesis on the life of forgotten Czech Jewish writer, Hermann Ungar, who died in 1929. 続きを見る

The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was chea……続きを見る

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hem……続きを見る

The originality of the study lies in the degree to which Ms Kelly has achieved something like a group biography... not a series of linked portraits, but the evocation of an entire emotional milieu. ……続きを見る

**The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trialーone of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryーprovide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one ……続きを見る

Life is not measured by the light we make or the sums of one, but by the fears we break and the shadeauxs we come from. From birth to death we are challenged with various tasks until we complete our……続きを見る

"In burnished, exquisite prose, Browning describes her feelings of being set adrift until she gradually transforms her helter-skelter days into a deliberate, contemplative way of life." -The Boston ……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Preface Chronology I. Austens and Leighs, 1600-1764 II. Steventon, 1764-1785 III. Warren Hastings an……続きを見る

»Fahren Sie mich irgendwohin, ich werde überall gebraucht!« Fahrgäste, die sich im Taxi nackt ausziehen, die so betrunken sind, dass sie auf die Frage nach dem Zielort nur noch »nach Hause« lallen k……続きを見る

A collection of essays on Jorge Luis Borges by his long-time friend and collaborator. Jorge Luis Borges – Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer – is widely considered one of the giants of……続きを見る

This antiquarian volume contains 'A Backward Glance', Edith Wharton's detailed account of her life, both pubic and private. She describes in a dazzling yet delicate manner, the upper-class New York ……続きを見る

“True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of thisーall of itーand still want to go on living, tha……続きを見る

The third volume of autobiography from legendary foreign correspondent, John Simpson. 13 November 2001. John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital wa……続きを見る

Carnet de voyage. Grand prix de l'Académie française. L'auteur arrive à St Sébastien en 1894. Puis il va par le train à Bilbao où le socialisme monte chez les ouvriers. Il va ensuite à Santander par……続きを見る

"Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rur……続きを見る

The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson.……続きを見る

‘What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name ……続きを見る

Jack is the intimate, extraordinary story of the gregarious, irascible trailblazer who propelled Canada into a cultural coming of age and changed the business and flavour of book publishing forever.……続きを見る

From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer. McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children gr……続きを見る

Born in 1836 near Strabane, Co. Tyrone, George Sigerson was educated in Paris and University College, Cork, where he studied medicine. He became one of the foremost authorities on diseases of the ne……続きを見る

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, undersellin……続きを見る

Baker muses on the creative process via his obsession with John Updike. 続きを見る

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is one of the best-loved Scottish writers. Beginning with a series of poetry collections and nonfiction works, Scott quickly became known as a rising force in British le……続きを見る

Franz Kafka remains one of the central intellectual and cultural figures of our time. Eighty years after his death his work and life continues to fascinate readers and writers. The aura of his life ……続きを見る

Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominan……続きを見る