Literary 48

Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurstons autobiography. Hurston, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance is best known for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. The book won the 1942 Anisfield-Wo……続きを見る

Simone Weil, legendary French philosopher, mystic and political activist who died in England in 1943 at the age of thirty-four, belongs to a select group of thinkers: as with St Augustine, Pascal an……続きを見る

Poet, peace activist, Confucian, fascist, traitor – love him or loathe him, Ezra Pound is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential and controversial poets of modern times. This book raise……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 En……続きを見る

ABOUT THREE QUARTERS Teresa Madaleno reviews… “Three Quarters” by Donna Kakonge From the first chapter, Three Quarters manages to draw you in so that you sympathize with the main character who happe……続きを見る

"Stories and memoir that will touch your heart and stay with you long after the last page is read." ~The Independent Gay Writer "This collection of thought-provoking and touching stories about love ……続きを見る

A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England "I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the ……続きを見る

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religio……続きを見る

Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for ever Paul Johnson, the celebrated historian, grew up in Tuns……続きを見る

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." ーDan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more abo……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth ……続きを見る

Drug-crazed, iconic, outrageous--Hunter S. Thompson’s own reputation as the rock star writer of the 1970s obscured the meaning behind much of his work, even for many of his fans. An essay on Hunter……続きを見る

Renowned journalist and author of the international bestseller Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American. Growing up……続きを見る

Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frederic Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood, while spending a night in the cells. In his ……続きを見る

This is the second collection of poetry by River Huston. It captures what it is like to live with HIV over two decades and deal with the grief, loss, love, relationships and finding a life beyond HI……続きを見る

With Magazine Wars, a new ABC drama series from the makers of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, set to recreate Nene King's heyday presiding over WOMAN'S DAY in the race for ratings, Peter FitzSimon'……続きを見る

A lot of people have experiences that can be useful for other people. I'm no different. Here are a collection of some articles I wrote while growing up. Living in a country where the legendary War o……続きを見る

Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chroniclin……続きを見る

'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exi……続きを見る

Humorist de talent, scriitor senzațional prin excelență, Creangă e... acel dintre scriitorii noștri care a trăit mai aproape de popor, l-a înțeles mai bine și l-a reprodus mai cu viață. Scutit de ……続きを見る

Author, printer, and libertine Rétif de la Bretonne ("the French pornographer") was among the most eccentric public figures of eighteenth-century France. Gérard de Nerval, drawn to such eccentrics, ……続きを見る

In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in ……続きを見る

The first major biography of the author of Suite Française The posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But t……続きを見る

Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of C……続きを見る

William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison ……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Originally published in 1903–1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ev……続きを見る

Erica Jong's national bestselling memoir was probably the most wildly reviewed book of 2006. Critics called it everything from “brutally funny,” “risqué and wonderfully unrepentant,” “rowdy, self-de……続きを見る

The most fucked up memoir you’ll ever read. A foul-mouthed memoir about a dysfunctional life. Each chapter recounts a key moment in the author’s life through the books she was reading at the time in……続きを見る

Wandering Where I Am is a poetic journey of a young man going through a marital breakdown and encountering the europe he has studied, face to face. The book charts Thoms Andrews' travels through the……続きを見る

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) , a native of Amherst, New Hampshire , grew up the son of a poor farmer. His life reads like the quintessential American success story: from his humble beginnings he mov……続きを見る