This book explores significant problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe. Maximillian E. Novak investigates a number of elements in Defoe’s work by probing his interest in rendering of reality (what D……続きを見る
Years after his death, Nick Joaquin's legacy continues to live on. Through his prolific writingーboth fiction and non-fictionーthis National Artist for Literature awardee has left his mark not only ……続きを見る
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many ye……続きを見る
This is Stevenson’s first book and a very enjoyable read. Stevenson and his friend Walter Simpson, known as Cigarette in the narrative, take a casual canoe trip through Belgium and France in 1876.
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Former United Press International reporter Michael S. Barrett spent several years in the Middle East and Europe as a foreign correspondent and editor during the mid-1970s. While reporting daily on a……続きを見る
Mr. Clemens began to write his autobiography many years ago, and he continues to add to it day by day. It was his original intention to permit no publication of his memoirs until after his death; bu……続きを見る
Dieses eBook: "Engelhart Ratgeber: Die zwei Welten (Autobiografischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Jakob Was……続きを見る
An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literatureーthe only collection of interviews with Marquez available
Hailed by the New York Times as a "conjurer of ……続きを見る
A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ’n’ rollーas brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself
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C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known a……続きを見る
L’ÂME DU POÈTE
CLAIR DE LUNE INTELLECTUEL
Ma pensée est couleur de lumières lointaines,
Du fond de quelque crypte aux vagues profondeurs.
Elle a l’éclat parfois des subtiles verdeurs
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Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along th……続きを見る
My personal association with Mr. Clemens, comparatively brief though it was--an ocean voyage, meetings here and there, a brief stay as a guest in his home--gave me at last the justification for payi……続きを見る
These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the ……続きを見る
What is a testimony without a test ? The struggles of an average teen on a journey to greatness.This Book tells the story of a young woman learning life lessons along the way and finding the pathway……続きを見る
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an ……続きを見る
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a ……続きを見る
One of Australia's most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues that affect us
George Negus is one of Australia's most respected journalists. As the host of SBS tV's Datel……続きを見る
On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their children literally to fly at the s……続きを見る
The second book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series: the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime fiction and influenced writers from Stieg Larrson to Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell and……続きを見る
This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings.
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Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.
Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the……続きを見る
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.
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LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD
This unique series – edited by Richard Holmes – recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece – still thrilling to r……続きを見る
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tokas were the talk of pre-war Paris. Photographed by Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway, they were at the heart of Parisian cult……続きを見る
"An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial Times
Windsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his fa……続きを見る
Is it every woman's fate to turn into her mother? This is renowned writer and journalist Virginia Ironside's poignant and blackly funny memoir of life with fashion professor and media icon Janey Iro……続きを見る
The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic……続きを見る
In these pages, Kevin Crossley-Holland visits the foreign land of childhood. First memories as a war-baby; starting a museum; being coached at Lord's; living above the spring line below the great ch……続きを見る
