著者:Anonymous
出版社: Heaven Lake Press
発売日: 2012年10月22日
Am I a bad girl? Today I slept with a man for money for the first time. He was an American called David and he was thirty-five years old, exactly ten years older than me. Am I a bad girl? I don’t t……続きを見る
著者:T.J. Binyon
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
In the course of his short, dramatic life, Aleksandr Pushkin gave Russia not only its greatest poetry–including the novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin–but a new literary language. He also gave it a figure……続きを見る
Two of Aldiss’ essay collections from the mid-1980s in one volume.
In this warm, chatty, opinionated collection of essays, Brian Aldiss tells the reader a bit about his youth, holds forth on the pos……続きを見る
From the personal to the political, this is the much-awaited memoir from Tim Pat Coogan.
Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not onl……続きを見る
An American Demon is Jack Grishams story of depravity and redemption terror and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore pu……続きを見る
According to Wikipedia: "Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal ……続きを見る
"Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of The Four Greats (De Fire S……続きを見る
著者:Sarah Kirsch
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2012年10月31日
Neues von der Grande Dame der Poesie, nonkonformistisch und unverwechselbar
Plappernder silberner Wind, Hagelschlangen, grüne Kraken im Januargarten – Sarah Kirsch gehört ohne Zweifel zu den Großen ……続きを見る
著者:Dr Maya Angelou
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2010年11月04日
A collection of wisdom and life lessons, from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA
De……続きを見る
著者:Nicholas Murray
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2009年06月04日
This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationshi……続きを見る
著者:Barry Werth
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年09月29日
During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychologi……続きを見る
Why do children growing up together in the same household turn out so completely different? How can a child raised in a family of twelve be so lonely?
Coming to Astoria takes the reader on a journey……続きを見る
From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, f……続きを見る
著者:Alan Weisman
出版社: Turner Publishing Company
発売日: 2008年05月02日
"Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age: who is the real Dan Rather? Weisman has devoted much time, energy, and talent to that question……続きを見る
Opal Irene Whiteley was born in 1897 in Washington and was raised in Oregon, and died at the Napsbury Hospital in England as a psychiatric patient, at the age of ninety-four in 1992. How did a brill……続きを見る
THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It……続きを見る
著者:Frederick H. White
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2006年06月20日
Memoirs and Madness examines memoir as a literary genre, investigates the creation of Leonid Andreev's posthumous legacy by his contemporaries, and explores the possibility that Andreev, Russia's le……続きを見る
One woman’s unexpected story from South Korea. An exhilarating true tale of friendship, danger, and the possibility of new beginnings.
The plight of migrant factory workers in South Korea leads Kat……続きを見る
Twenty-five years ago they bought a homestead, in the middle of Vancouver Island, on the water’s edge. There are still reflections off the small lake at the foot of Mount Benson- of gardens and vine……続きを見る
著者:Gay Talese
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2006年04月25日
The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own lifeーthe zeal for the truth,……続きを見る
Born in the small town of Orangeburg, SC there was little for the youth to do and limited opportunity for growth. Demetrius turned to drugs, crime and alcoholism as a means for excitement……続きを見る
“[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It’s a pleasure to be in their company.”ーMichael Dirda, The Washington Post
“An extended meditation on the processes of ……続きを見る
著者:Michael Reynolds
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2012年05月28日
**A National Book Award Finalist
"The Young Hemingway will entertain and surprise…It should rank as one of the best nonfiction books of the year." ーLos Angeles Times**
Michael Reynolds recreates th……続きを見る
Born in Paris, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a hugely influential poet, art critic and translator whose reputation has only increased in the twentieth century. Throughout his life Baudelaire wa……続きを見る
Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by Norris’s contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of a popular American novelist.
Considering his undergraduate educat……続きを見る
著者:Albert Memmi
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2013年01月30日
Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott; 99,000 words)
In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in Fra……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Barrow
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2011年08月19日
This remarkable double biography celebrates the interlocking lives of two of the greatest eccentrics of the 20th century: the brilliant and bizarre Quentin Crisp and the outlandish Philip O'Connor, ……続きを見る
Rosalia Baena’s theoretically challenging, analytical volume of essays, explores the diversity of shapes that transcultural life writing takes, demonstrating how it has become one of the most dynami……続きを見る
Forrest Gump may have seen life as a box of chocolates, but Libby Simon views it more like a pot of soup...elements that mix and simmer slowly over the years, which result in a complex and unique la……続きを見る