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According to Wikipedia: "Anatole France (16 April 1844ー12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault,[1] was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-……続きを見る

Biography of a little-known literary figure by a well-known one. According to Wikipedia: "John Sterling was a colleague and friend of Carlyle, but achieved far less success as a writer. They met whe……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

According to Wikipedia: "Edmond de Goncourt (May 26, 1822 July 16, 1896) was a French writer, critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt... He bequeathed his entire estate for t……続きを見る

Biography of the author of Frankenstein and wife of the poet Shelley. According to Wikipedia: "Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, s……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 July 1, 1896) was an abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel ……続きを見る

Book-length memoir about Mark Twain. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a humorist, satirist, lectur……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's n……続きを見る

Biography of the 18th century comic novelist, author of Tom Jones. The Preface begins: "New material alone could justify any attempt to supplement the _Fielding_ of Mr Austin Dobson. Such material h……続きを見る

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova ( 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one……続きを見る

Biography of the French novelist in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand……続きを見る

Biography of the French novelist in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand……続きを見る

In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gord……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English lite……続きを見る

Short biographical essay. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, an……続きを見る

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly i……続きを見る

Juliette Drouet, born Julienne Josephine Gauvain (10 April 1806 - 11 May 1883) was a French actress. She abandoned her career on the stage after becoming the mistress of Victor Hugo, to whom she act……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, his major contribution to the Enlighte……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession ……続きを見る

Cartas a Milena trata de la correspondencia que el escritor Franz Kafka dirigió a Milena Jesenská entre los años 1920 y 1922. La relación epistolar iniciada en un tono de simpatía amistosa y casi pr……続きを見る

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Denise Le Blond-Zola (1889-1942) est la fille d'Emile Zola et de sa maîtresse Jeanne Rozerot. Elle nous fait ainsi découvrir son père dans son intimité : son enfance à Aix-en-Provence où il est l'am……続きを見る

Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In ……続きを見る

First published in 1907. A memoir of the books in Doyle's library. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most ……続きを見る

A genuine literary eventーan illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote ……続きを見る

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only……続きを見る

In early 1921 the young Henry Williamson, traumatised by his experiences in the First World War, moved from London to a tiny cottage in North Devon, seeking solitude and renewal. Here he began to ma……続きを見る

The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal. In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major femini……続きを見る

'I have tried to depict Arnold Bennett as a man of character and integrity, a fundamentally innocent humorist, a superlative friend, and, to others, not myself, a difficult personality; but I have w……続きを見る

How has the Fairfax empire arrived at its current shabby, sorry state -- and what does its demise mean for the future of independent journalism? A decade ago Fairfax Media was one of the most powerf……続きを見る