Literary 46

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazi……続きを見る

Bunyan by James Anthony Froude 'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land.' 'I never went to sc……続きを見る

**A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red. "One of the ……続きを見る

A son’s poignant letter to his fatherーfrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. • “One of the great confessions of literatu……続きを見る

A girl attempts to make her father appear less threatening by dressing him up as a woman.  続きを見る

The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds Simon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be ……続きを見る

He is young, intelligent, well educated, a patriot of his country. Then, as a result of a misunderstanding, he has to flee from Ukraine because in his homeland he is now a persona non grata. Funny e……続きを見る

A second son tries figuring out the sad and troubling relationship between his older brother and their father. 続きを見る

Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she to……続きを見る

Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Se……続きを見る

A comprehensive biography of author and broadcaster Breandán Ó hEithir. The uathor, Liam Mac Con Iomaire, discusses Breandán's background, his travels abroad and also the Ireland in which Breandán l……続きを見る

Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century’s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary……続きを見る

In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the twentieth century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Antho……続きを見る

A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman’s life… A unique memoir, ‘Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers’ is the story of how a young female film cr……続きを見る

Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg (24,000 words, 24 illustrations) Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article. Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia ……続きを見る

A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, a……続きを見る

Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals ……続きを見る

Deric Longden had never thought of himself a cat lover, but from the moment he saw the tiny kitten sitting on an upturned bucket down in the garden he was hooked. Strictly speaking, the little cat b……続きを見る

March With the Muse is a collection of poems on various subjects, written in the 31 day month of March 2012 by Michael N. Johns. Perhaps creativity, perhaps a childlike spirit, or perhaps unmedicate……続きを見る

Essays on memory by the author of Our of Egypt "We remember not because we have something we wish to go back to, nor because memories are all we have. We remember because memory is our most intimate……続きを見る

An authoritative biography of Turkey's most important and most popular poet. Nâzim Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkey’s best-loved poet and a commanding presence in its public life, lived through a turbulen……続きを見る

Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards. His second, he’s found under his floorb……続きを見る

Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: “I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been c……続きを見る

¿Biografía apócrifa, novela testimonial?; ¿una elegía, un manifiesto al borde del hacha, un testamento? Lihn, la muerte sigue los pasos en la vida y, particularmente, en la muerte de Enrique Lihn, e……続きを見る

"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if……続きを見る

Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwell’s life in his own words. From his school days to his tragic early death, George Orwell, who ……続きを見る

Life of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive biography by Frank Thomas Marzials. The author has paid tribute to Dickens the legendary English writer of all times for his contribution to English Litera……続きを見る

An engaging, wickedly funny and splendidly anecdotal memoir of a career spent among writers, agents, publishers and bookmen and women of every stripe. Jeremy Lewis's first memoir, 'Playing for Time'……続きを見る

The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacre……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (17751817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 18……続きを見る