Literary 64

I'm sure you've heard this cliché: "Think of your life's journey as a river." Therapists and Self-help gurus use it all the time. Well, I have my own cliché: "Rivers are created by God's tears." I b……続きを見る

Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years……続きを見る

In 2001, when a couple leaves South Africa for a stay abroad, they land at JFK International Airport on September 11th, unprepared for the sight of smoke billowing from the Manhattan skyline or the ……続きを見る

Bite-sized stories from one of the masters of contemporary fiction. Thanks to social media, the world is getting ever more adept at writing concisely. However, Brian Aldiss was writing in this style……続きを見る

Poetry of a life reflection, refraction, regression covering the seasons of man moving from early work and life experiences, through see evaluation and realisation to the return to the child from wh……続きを見る

Kirstine Stewart, the CBCs executive vice-president in charge of English programming, has the most difficult job in Canadian media. Up against huge budget cuts, the Internet, corporate media giants,……続きを見る

_______________ 'Few writers can match her evocations of individual suffering in wartime.' - Newsweek 'A gifted and humane reporter with a novelist's eye for detail.' - Literary Review 'One of our g……続きを見る

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a brig……続きを見る

Through a crisis of faith, hope emerges. The author explores his crisis of faith when his sister, Peggy, dies at age 40 from complications due to diabetes. Through creative application of images and……続きを見る

In the summer of 1980, a maverick young doctor gave it all up, to hitchhike around the world. The first part of his odyssey took him through South America and up through Africa, accompanied by his m……続きを見る

A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA It is 19……続きを見る

Aldiss’ first novel republished after many years out of print. In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called B……続きを見る

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloque……続きを見る

This is a compliation of poetry I have written since I was 13 years old. I have several romance poems, as well as poems I wrote while in deep depression. I also have Christian poetry, and a few odds……続きを見る

"Anti-romântica por excelência, sem idealizações ou pieguices, com formação em psicologia ...Seu olhar não exibe julgamentos, apenas desvela senti……続きを見る

Suzanne McLain Rosenwasser's local color essays have appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES, LI WOMAN and many other publications, earning both Long Island and New York Press Asscoaitons' awards. The author……続きを見る

Drawing on the memoirs, letters and diaries of a group of British intellectuals writing between 1910 and the Second World War, UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS paints a witty and insightful portrait of seven '……続きを見る

A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances. In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians pou……続きを見る

Beginning with The Portrait of a Lady, this book shows how, in developing his unique form of realism, James highlights the tragic consequences of his American heroine's Romantic imagination, in part……続きを見る

A dramatic reworking of the vampire myth in a way that only Brian Aldiss can… Available for the first time in eBook. When Bram Stoker was writing his famous novel, Dracula, at the end of the 19th ce……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writers One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 2……続きを見る

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagi……続きを見る

A Penguin Classic More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from th……続きを見る

Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her. Anna and the Black Knight introduc……続きを見る

What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal bo……続きを見る

The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was pu……続きを見る

This is a unique biography since Jones was a close friend of Samuel Butler. In this work the great author is seen through the eyes of a friend. With intricate details and profound depth this is an e……続きを見る

Alfred Jarry’s creation of the monster-tyrant Ubu was a watershed in theatre history: his play Ubu Roi (whose origins lie in his mercilessly ridiculed former schoolmaster) on the Paris stage in Dece……続きを見る

The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling' (Mail on Sunday). Muriel Spark ended was one of the gre……続きを見る

She was the 17 year-old daughter of noted philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; he was a 22-year-old trapped in an unhappy marriage. Their love was forbidden...that didn't matter. The……続きを見る