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A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we……続きを見る

'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall Slipstream unearths the remarkable life of Elizabeth Jane……続きを見る

Glamour, alcohol, reckless and carefree behavior--all themes of a great F. Scott Fitzgerald novel? Yes. But, in the case of Fitzgerald, fiction imitates life. Fitzgerald's marriage to Zelda was vola……続きを見る

'This is Alan Ross's fourth volume of autobiography (following on from Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, and After Pusan)... Winter Sea, like his previous volumes, is an intriguing mix of memoir, ……続きを見る

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on t……続きを見る

Invitación, difícil de rechazar, a sumergirnos en el mundo de las lecturas y los autores que han tocado la vida de Guadalupe Loaeza. Guadalupe Loaeza, escritora y lectora insaciable, lo mismo se sor……続きを見る

'Edna **O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart' Guardian 'Her boldly coloured portrait rewrites his life with all the brio and elan for which her novels are renowned' T……続きを見る

Brian Patten is renowned as an accessible and popular poet. Now his love poems, old and new, are collected together in his single volume. Widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s foremost writers, Bri……続きを見る

A Journey of the Heart is a 47,000 word non-fiction journal in the American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues. Harry’s journey across America in 1986 with his grown son opens a dialogu……続きを見る

Zahava Hanan’s struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in West……続きを見る

Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those f……続きを見る

"An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other Like most lives, Mary Pipher’s is filled with glory a……続きを見る

“You are, of course, never yourself,” wrote Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) in Everybody’s Autobiography. Modernist icon Stein wrote many pseudo-autobiographies, including the well-known story of her lov……続きを見る

Nearly lost for a very long time "A Personal Record" the second of Conrad's autobiographical memoirs first appeared in 1912. This collection retraces the author's East European background his life d……続きを見る

"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person st……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

Collins Shorts – insight in an instant. Under fire in Libya, this is an intense hit of adrenaline as reported by war correspondent Alex Crawford. The only western reporter to be in Green Square when……続きを見る

Note that due to the limitations of some ereading devices not all diacritical marks can be shown. A major biography of one of literature’s most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback ……続きを見る

In the first major literary biography of L. Frank Baum, Rebecca Loncraine reveals the story of Oz with a fresh look behind the curtain at the vivid life and eccentric imagination of its creator. Bau……続きを見る

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According to Wikipedia: "George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (May 12, 1855January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet… For twelve years, Woodberry was an almost constant writer t……続きを見る

Nearly all of the information we have of William Shakespeare, from the town of Stratford Upon Avon, shows that he was most likely illiterate. Thus, this book was written with the question 'could the……続きを見る

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and T……続きを見る

With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s turbulent personal and profe……続きを見る

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spi……続きを見る

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, qu……続きを見る

This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This ……続きを見る

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From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a r……続きを見る

Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to ou……続きを見る