Extrait : Toute cette histoire remonte à un jour d’élections. Par un brûlant après-midi californien, j’étais descendu à cheval dans la Vallée de la Lune, de mon ranch au petit village, pour voter to……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. ……続きを見る
Extrait : La conversion de Coppée a été le chemin de Damas de tout le monde… À dater de ce jour, on a su que la vie chrétienne était une chose facile. Apr&e……続きを見る
In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the mos……続きを見る
In essays, verse and questions, twenty two contributors representing a plethora of endeavors discuss Chinua Achebe's life and works and legacy. These contributors who were Achebe's friends, peers, c……続きを見る
著者：Nigey Lennon
出版社： Airstream Books
発売日： 2012年08月09日
Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) lived fast, died young, and refused to accept objective reality. He was a major influence on artistic movements such as Dada and Surrealism, and his nihilistic 1896 play, "U……続きを見る
著者：David Carrier
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2014年01月02日
First Published in 1999. John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-1894), and Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) represent three generations of English aesthetes whose writings have transformed art history……続きを見る
著者：Lois Potter
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2014年01月14日
A highly readable and illustrated introduction to the work of Milton, which provides both a biographical account of the poet and his influences, and a critical survey of his poetry.
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Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue……続きを見る
Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of “the best that has ……続きを見る
Theodore Roosevelt (1857–1919) was the most literary of American Presidents, writing scores of books, including Through the Brazilian Wilderness and African Game Trails. He was also the most active ……続きを見る
The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on Damer’s notebooks and previously unpublished letters to explore the li……続きを見る
This book deals with the life and career of Bernhard Karlgren (1889 1978), whose research in a great variety of fields, particularly the historical phonology of the Chinese language, laid the founda……続きを見る
著者：Diane Johnson
出版社： Penguin Publishing Group
発売日： 2014年01月16日
“[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.”
ーThe New York Times Book Review
Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the w……続きを見る
Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her ……続きを見る
Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismatic
teacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington
Duke Hotel in Durha……続きを見る
著者：Vivian Gornick
出版社： Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日： 2005年09月14日
Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachmentsーhailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pagesーhas been selected by the publication’s book cri……続きを見る
Discover a novelist that Neil Gaiman describes as ‘an astonishingly smart writer’.
When a chance meeting with a stranger leads to an offer of a room in exchange for telling her stories, Molly jumps ……続きを見る
During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won th……続きを見る
著者：Ronald T. Farrar
出版社： University of Missouri Press
発売日： 2013年12月24日
This superb biography provides for the first time a candid look at the remarkable life of Walter Williams, the man who founded the world's first school of journalism and perhaps contributed more tow……続きを見る
Glamorous, talented, audaciousーLillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written The Children’s Hour, the first of four hit Broadway play……続きを見る
Mem’s the Word is the candid and compelling autobiography of Australia’s most successful children’s author. It begins with Mem’s ancestors settling in Australia and follows her childhood in Africa, ……続きを見る
著者：Sarah Churchwell
出版社： Penguin Publishing Group
発売日： 2014年01月23日
"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”ーKirkus (STARRED rev……続きを見る
Quinze jours se passèrent sans aucun changement dans aucune des situations ; seulement Geneviève, ennuyée des assiduités de Georges et des compliments exagérés qu’il lui adressait, commença à l’évit……続きを見る
