Literary 60

This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS I. Introductory II. Pushkin III. Gogol IV. Turgenef V. Tolstoy the Artist VI. Tolstoy the Preacher 続きを見る

The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prominent political an……続きを見る

Poet, travel writer, teacher, quiz-show presenter, broadcaster, adventurer - Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, met many people, and been many places. His life journey, marked by frequent diversio……続きを見る

The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi (with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Albert Camus; translated from the French by Edouard Roditi; 114,000 words) When The Pillar of Salt was firs……続きを見る

The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgeraldーwashed up, alcoholic and illーdedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved. In 1937, on the night of her engagem……続きを見る

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, scho……続きを見る

David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England. He was born in London in the aftermath of the wa……続きを見る

In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomatーa romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books.……続きを見る

Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist has played many roles-writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she never tackled the role of teacher. Offered the opportunity to teach creati……続きを見る

Who is this woman?----She was born in Leeds, U.K., died in Kaitaia, New Zealand, and appears in both the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the Bibliography of Australian Literature…----She was……続きを見る

Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by……続きを見る

Mark Twain's Speeches was published by Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens in 1910. He better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novel The Adven……続きを見る

What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fled……続きを見る

'Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence' Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were the panhandlers a……続きを見る

Juan LePuen draws on Primo Levi's notions of purity and impurity to examine the work, both literary and extra-literary, of the Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro. He argues that Ribeyro's work is characte……続きを見る

Mary and I FORTY YEARS WITH THE SIOUX. By Stephen Return Riggs 続きを見る

Dame Edith Sitwell died while this autobiography was in the course of printing. One of the last acts of her life was to approve the 'specimen page' from the printer. She did not live to correct her ……続きを見る

Father and son: arguably the most complex of all family relationships. But what happens when your dad is a manic-depressive who paints the front door in the middle of the night and sends good-wishes……続きを見る

The 2013 edition of the New York Times bestseller revised, updated and with an important new introduction by the author. The Passion of Ayn Rand was the first full-length Ayn Rand bio……続きを見る

It was more than coincidenceーindeed, it was all but fateーthat the lives and thoughts of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman should converge during the terrible years of the Civil War. Kindred spirits……続きを見る

In this exhaustive and enlightening biographyーnearly two decades in the makingーGerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel……続きを見る

Former editor of The Times, the late William Rees-Mogg was a pivotal figure of post-war Britain. Here he recounts the remarkable story of his life. As editor of The Times (his glory years), journali……続きを見る

Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Ma……続きを見る

On July 21, 1548, Princess Elizabeth Tudor gave birth to a son at Cheshunt, England. The father of the child was Thomas Seymour, her stepfather. The child was placed in the home of John de Vere, 16t……続きを見る

Celebration of the 150th Birthday of Rabindranath Tagore. We happy to Publish this book. Its is a Hug collection of tagore's literature. poems, stories, dramas, paintings and Biography of Rabindran……続きを見る

A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century’s most famous literary enfants terribles. Written in 1980 but published here for the first time, these te……続きを見る

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory gui……続きを見る

Biographical profile of Katharine Graham who once described herself as a doormat wife but subsequently became one of the most powerful figures in America during the 20th Century. The New York Times ……続きを見る

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... br……続きを見る

Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented. A man of many parts, including social critic, he is known to have had an influence on……続きを見る