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An omnibus containing Austin Mitchell’s classic books THE HALF-GALLON QUARTER-ACRE PAVLOVA PARADISE and PAVLOVA PARADISE REVISITED, available for the first time in ebook. Austin Mitchell’s witty, se……続きを見る

Francesco Cimaglia Gonzaga, una persona non comune, paradossale come lo è Napoli, la sua città: idealista e pragmatico, nobile (non solo per nascita) e ribelle, curioso, imprevedibile, ma soprattutt……続きを見る

It's dark, it's funny, it's insane, it's tearful, it's warm, and it's cold. It's all things wrapped into one. Infamous poet and songwriter, Rob Redwine, takes you on a bit of a roller coaster ride o……続きを見る

Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” M……続きを見る

Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author – a seasoned correspondent – took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to……続きを見る

The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life. From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor i……続きを見る

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his magnum opus. Only four of its seven volumes had been published by the time Proust ……続きを見る

“Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to……続きを見る

This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her l……続きを見る

"He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving art……続きを見る

At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in man……続きを見る

One of Britain’s best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite……続きを見る

The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with “extraordinary nobility and wisdom” (The New York Times) When Donald Hall moved to his grandparents’ New H……続きを見る

“Living a better life…with less stuff.” ーNational Post What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thou……続きを見る

Un témoignage percutant et pertinent sur le traitement de l'information par les médias. Ancien correspondant au Moyen-Orient, Joris Luyendijk décrypte dans ces pages savoureuses mais sévères le trav……続きを見る

When your life plan explodes, you ask yourself the big questions: What do I really need in life? How can I make my life a work of art? Should I buy a house? Have kids? What is a life? Following in K……続きを見る

“What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?” Helen Bevington asks. “I’ve taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncom……続きを見る

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pat……続きを見る

"No more passionate voice ever sounded in Russian poetry of the 20th century," Joseph Brodsky writes of Marina Tsvetaeva. And yet Western readers are only now starting to discover what Tsvetaeva’s R……続きを見る

Geoffrey Household's, author of ROGUE MALE, unconventional amusing and exciting autobiography. Ever since the publication of ROGUE MALE, Geoffrey Household has been known in the English-reading worl……続きを見る

This is the fifty-third book of Donna Kakonge. Donna Kakonge is also the publisher of Donna Magazine. She is currently working on her dissertation, as well as attending law school. 続きを見る

It lives in the hole where the moon used to be. And for most of the worst part of the northern winter, over the last two decades, so have we. The real South Pacific was not a Bali Hai musical, but a……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extra……続きを見る

The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth centu……続きを見る

Um cavalo tem a ração cortada pelo prefeito e leva uma cidade inteira à beira da insurreição. Com humor e tom cáustico, o autor cria uma narrativa que pode ……続きを見る

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King Tony shocks with raw truth and strong opinions as he lures you on eye opening excursions through the flamboyant club scene of Atlanta, Georgia, Gritty streets of Durham, North Carolina and the ……続きを見る

Few authors achieve fame in their lifetime and then have that fame compound and grow long after their death. Fewer still spend much of their lives harboring resentment for the work that made them fa……続きを見る

Extrait : Sir Walter Elliot, seigneur de Kellinch-Hall en Somertshire, vivait dans cette terre ; son amusement favori était la lecture continuelle du Baronnetage, ou la liste et l’histoire de……続きを見る

Extrait :  O ma douleur, où donc ne t’ai-je pas conduite ! Des bords de l’Océan au Bosphore lointain Par l’Espagne, l’Égypte et les golfes divins, Des siècles et des……続きを見る