著者:Paul Brody
出版社: BookCaps Study Guides
発売日: 2014年01月23日
Writers are complicated beast with troubled minds. Genius doesn’t come without consequences, and the authors profiled in this book, show that the minds behind some literatures greatest works were no……続きを見る
Pendant toute la durée de son règne, depuis son avènement au Consulat jusqu’à son abdication, Napoléon Ier a eu à se défendre contre les conspirateurs qui menaçaient sa vie. Les complots constituent……続きを見る
‘Marco Roth’s book about his father is a farewell to a bygone culture – polygot, intellectual, Europhile, psychoanalytic – and simultaneously a renewal of that culture. It’s moving, tough-minded, an……続きを見る
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Aujourd’hui que les traditions indiennes sont écoutées avec l’intérêt que nous prêtons aux événements des siècles reculés et peu connus, il ……続きを見る
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Quoique le Trappeur manifestât quelque surprise en voyant s’approcher encore une forme humaine, et cela dans une direction opposée à l’endroit où l’émigrant avait établi son cam……続きを見る
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A u commencement d’octobre 1832, une voiture de voyage s’arrêta sur le sommet de cette longue descente qui conduit des plaines élevées de Moudon en Suisse, au niveau du lac de G……続きを見る
Leave to Remain is Abbas El-Zein's award-winning memoir of his youth in Lebanon and his years of travel between the Arab and Western worlds. It is powerful and poetic, passionate and elegiac, a clea……続きを見る
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Nos aventuriers n’avaient pas bien loin à aller. Ayant une fois trouvé la percée et la source, Hurry connaissait le chemin, et il conduisit alors son compagnon avec la confiance d’un homme……続きを見る
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Au commencement du mois d’octobre de l’an de Notre-Seigneur 1469, Juan de Transtamare régnait en Aragon, et tenait sa cour à Zaragosa, ville située sur l’Ebre, dont on suppose que le……続きを見る
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L’escadre étant à l’ancre en sûreté et en bon ordre, en dépit du brouillard, sir Gervais Oakes se montra disposé à accomplir ses vues ultérieures.
ー Nous avons vu un beau spec……続きを見る
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Aucun Américain ne peut ignorer les principaux événements qui portèrent le parlement de la Grande-Bretagne, en 1774, à frapper le port de Boston de ces restrictions impolitiques qui détrui……続きを見る
著者:LifeCaps
出版社: BookCaps Study Guides
発売日: 2014年01月24日
Writers are intense people; but when a writer falls in love with another writer, the walls come thumbing down. This book examines the lives and marriages of three literary couples: Percy Bysshe Shel……続きを見る
According to Wikipedia: "Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree……続きを見る
According to Wikipedia: "Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 July 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist associated with the American transcendental movement. She was ……続きを見る
The incredible autobiography from Claire Lorrimer, bestselling romance novelist and daughter of 'Queen of Romance' Denise Robins.
You Never Know is former WAAF officer and bestselling novelist Clair……続きを見る
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Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her ……続きを見る
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Set ten years after ‘Little Men’, ‘Jo’s Boys’ is the final novel in the unofficial series that follows the ups and downs of……続きを見る
著者:Chris Donald
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2014年01月30日
This is the straight-talking, fascinating story of Viz magazine, founded in 1979 by Chris Donald – editor until 1999. Chris tells the remarkable story of the magazine, from the tatty rag produced in……続きを見る
This edition does not include illustrations.
This explosive biography of the Prince of Wales set media headlines alight on hardback publication. Now available complete with an updated epilogue, it w……続きを見る
What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute to Shakespeare?
'About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we ……続きを見る
This edition does not include illustrations.
From the author of ‘Britons’, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh – an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in……続きを見る
Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.
Self-portr……続きを見る
This edition does not include illustrations.
A major biography of the most modern and the most underrated of English Literature's Great Victorians.
Henry James called Robert Browning (1812–89) 'a tr……続きを見る