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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelve……続きを見る

The inspiration for the new miniseries starring Alex Wolff “A vivid glimpse of life on the Greek island of Hydra where artists traveled to live, love and escape convention in the heady ’60s … The gl……続きを見る

A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escapeーthat woman being Dorothy Parker. “Kids, I have started one thousand……続きを見る

"Peter Worthington's journey through history has been Homeric. He writes the way journalists were meant to write, with immediacy, clarity and courage." ~ William F. Buckley Jr. Outspoken and colourf……続きを見る

Ma double vie ou les mémoires de Sarah Bernhardt L'autobiographie officielle ! La biographie de Sarah Bernhardt, c'est l'histoire d'une réussite. Femme moderne, libre, créative ; comédienne mais aus……続きを見る

'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and co……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker) (22 April 1766 14 July 1817) (IPA: [stal]), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English language.……続きを見る

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre Mark Twain, t……続きを見る

Biography of the author of Treasure Island, from the "Famous Scots Series". According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer……続きを見る

Capturing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of science fiction, this unique autobiography by Robert Silverberg shows how famous stories in this genre were conceived and written. Chronicling……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of t……続きを見る

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the That……続きを見る

As senior war correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the Second World War, Matthew Halton reported from the front lines in Italy and Northwest Europe and became “the voice of……続きを見る

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs is rare gli……続きを見る

 L’océan Polaire entoure d’une ceinture de glace éternelle les bords déserts de la Sibérie et de l’Amérique du Nord !… ces dernières limites des deux m……続きを見る

24 themed chapters. Each with 10 numbered paragraphs. Each paragraph with precisely 120 words. The sum of a life. In his beautiful and haunting new book, Charles Lambert explores the fragmentary nat……続きを見る

Taylor Caldwell Reback the international writer of 40 books who fell, in her later years, into the talons of the money hunters. The vulpine valentinos turned the Reback family into a Greek tragedy t……続きを見る

Je naquis le 26 février 1786, dans la commune d’Estagel, ancienne province du Roussillon (département des Pyrénées-Orientales).  Mon père, licencié en ……続きを見る

Alors qu’ils descendaient le long de la berge en boitant douloureusement, l’homme qui marchait le premier chancela soudain parmi les rochers. Tous deux étaient fatigués et faibles ; leurs visages co……続きを見る

 Certainement subsiste une présence de Minuit. L’heure n’a pas disparu par un miroir, ne s’est pas enfouie en tentures, évoquant un ameublement par sa vacante sonorité. Je ……続きを見る

C’est un port, l’un des plus beaux du bord des eaux. Il est illustre sur tous les parallèles. À tout instant du jour et de la nuit, des bateaux labourent pour lui au plus loin des mers. Il est l’un ……続きを見る

¿Qué pensaba Elena Garro de la política, de la vida, de la literatura? Carlos Landeros plasma en este libro las siempre atinada opinión de esta extraordinaria escritora, casada por más de 20 años co……続きを見る

Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam, nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le……続きを見る

Robert Fisk’s bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis. The history of the Middle East is an epic ……続きを見る

A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and M……続きを見る

A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureーclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estateーthrough the lens of mothers and daughters. A……続きを見る

Collection of autobiographical essays and letters. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in ……続きを見る

Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was inーand aroundーhis novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and eva……続きを見る

From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry David Thoreau – author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, schoolteacher, engine……続きを見る