Literary 52

A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist,……続きを見る

Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated from the German by Anselm Hollo; 133,000 words and 40 illustrations) Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet……続きを見る

From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, Joh……続きを見る

William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming th……続きを見る

  Howard Marks (Mr Nice)   Harry Shaw has written a book I couldn't put down. A story of a life addicted to A clazz drugs.The people he met whilst spending time in p……続きを見る

Tom Brungar grew up in a comfortable Norwegian environment. He became a ski champion for the Norwegian King’s Ski team. He was destined to have the perfect life… with the perfect wife……続きを見る

"Never Again," Richard La Plante promised after he and his new wife completed building their family home in East Hampton, New York. But he did not keep his promise. Instead, he bought twenty acres o……続きを見る

**The first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist, which was almost single-handedly responsible for creating the Brontë myth ‘A classic in its own right, still read today as ……続きを見る

Von einer, die auszog, die Pornoindustrie zu revolutionieren PorNo war in den 80er-Jahren das Credo der entschiedenen Pornogegnerin Petra Joy – heute ist sie eine mehrfach preisgekrönte, unabhängige……続きを見る

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Geoffrey ……続きを見る

Fyodor Dostoevsky Series (10 Books) Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad……続きを見る

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Charles Dickens remains – 200 years after his birth – arguably Britain’s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Tw……続きを見る

Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life–from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations ……続きを見る

One thousand haiku written from the Workingman perspective along the back roads and dark alleys of American life. These short observational poems look behind the facade, struggling for what's real i……続きを見る

Chris Terrill is a man in search of his limit. He's 55 years old. He is not a soldier. He is being trained by the Royal Marines and he is going to Afghanistan. The only difference is that instead of……続きを見る

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and……続きを見る

In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest,……続きを見る

Written to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Anne Hepple, novelist, who lived most of her life in Northumberland and Berwickshire. Her books, which often feature thinly-disguised local place……続きを見る

In this autobiography, Denis Healey reveals the breadth of his interests and his knowledge of the arts. In this book, he takes time to look at the literary influences that have shaped his life - his……続きを見る

The subtitle of this book could have been “How to squoosh cancer in 20 weeks". Here is an excerpt from the book. *** “The surgeon dropped what he thought would be a bombshell: 'We will hav……続きを見る

"Our journey to Canada began on a chilly, dark morning. We stood in front of our house as Dad pulled the door shut for the last time..." The author, then barely in his teens, reflects on ……続きを見る

** Please note: The eBook version of this title is slightly different from the paperback version. While the textual content remains the same, the illustrations/photographs were removed from the eBoo……続きを見る

A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has ……続きを見る

He wrote all his life – but was he an author? Herbert Allingham was one of 'the men who wrote for the Million'. His melodramatic serial stories ran week after week in the ha'penny papers a hundre……続きを見る

Clair Bee (1896–1983) was a hugely successful basketball coach at Rider College and Long Island University with a 412 and 87 record before his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal.……続きを見る

The English rectory nestling beside an ancient church may evoke a scene from Jane Austen or conjure up something much darker, such as the parsonage on the Yorkshire Moors where the Brontë sisters le……続きを見る

‘Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood … A masterpiece’ RACHEL CUSK At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beam……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE B.C. NATIONAL AWARD FOR CANADIAN NON-FICTION The writings of Lucy Maud Montgomery are so familiar and captivating that ……続きを見る

The biography sheds light on the life of Norwegian playwright and poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson. That the nation hails him as a nationalist who propounded patriotic themes and ideas is eloquently descr……続きを見る

A beautifully rendered portrait of family and loss, of childhood and manhood by a supremely gifted writer evaluating the sum of his experiences and emerging with a moving work of the highest level. ……続きを見る