Literary 97

In his touching and amusing memoir Chance Meetings, William Saroyan gives us a glimpse of the characters that have left an indelible impression on his mind for years to come. From the Armenian neigh……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

On or about Saturday 22d April 1564, William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare, glover and dealer in wool, and his wife Mary, née Arden, was born in Henley Street, Stratford-on-Avon, and was bapt……続きを見る

My Reminiscences is a fascinating autobiography by the great Indian poet/author, Rabindranath Tagore. "Upon the reality of life he erects his faith, and buttresses it with whatever of devotional goo……続きを見る

Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforget……続きを見る

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early ……続きを見る

The Memoir of my aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with……続きを見る

Schon zu Lebzeiten war Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) ihren Zeitgenossen ein faszinierendes Rätsel. Im Leben von Nietzsche, Rilke und Freud spielt sie eine wichtige Rolle, aber sie war viel mehr als……続きを見る

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man," living in post-Reconstruction e……続きを見る

“The least pretentious and in its impact the most popular of Henrik Ibsen biographies” according to the National Library of Norway. Hans Heiberg writes in the preface “I have always wanted to read a……続きを見る

If a new translation of Herodotus does not justify itself, it will hardly be justified in a preface; therefore the question whether it was needed may be left here without discussion. The aim of the ……続きを見る

Lo spunto iniziale del racconto è dato dalle riflessioni del narratore, a tre anni di distanza dall'evento, sul sisma che devastò l'Aquila e il suo territorio nella primavera del 2009.……続きを見る

From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Mel……続きを見る

From the author of Ohio (Best Books of Summer 2018 Selection in Time, Vulture, and the New York Post) comes a brilliant, hilarious, and deeply touching memoir that blows the roof off the genre. Fed ……続きを見る

Ringelnatz, der zur See fahrende Sachse, der reisende Artist, der dichtende Komiker und schauspielende Poet - dieses Bändchen ist eine Hommage an den vielseitigen, beliebten Wortkünstler. Er war ein……続きを見る

Vor dem Hintergrund der Teilung Deutschlands schildert Elke Cohnen ihre ganz persönliche Geschichte von Trennung und Verlust. Zusammen mit ihren Geschwistern wächst sie nach dem Krieg in Görlitz auf……続きを見る

Weithin sichtbar dominiert das barocke Stift mit den markanten Zwiebeltürmen und der Reiterstatue Meinhards II. auf dem Dachgiebel das kleine Oberländer Dorf, in welches das Kind Annemarie 1948 hine……続きを見る

Der vorliegende Band erschien erstmals 1992 als Band 1 der Reihe taschenführer populäre kultur im Verlag Thomas Tilsner (Eine tschechische Übersetzung erschien 1994 bei Arcadia, Prag.) Da dieser Ver……続きを見る

1961 erschoss sich Ernest Hemingway. Er liebte den Stierkampf, die Jagd, die Frauen und die Feste. Warum dieses brutale Ende nach einem so energiegeladenen Leben? Der stern schaute sich am Tatort in……続きを見る

Die Stimme von Thatcher, Clinton und Co. Wolfgang Ghantus gehört zu den dienstältesten Englisch-Dolmetschern Deutschlands. Seit über 60 Jahren spielt sich seine Arbeit vor dem Hintergrund weltpoliti……続きを見る

"Wir machen uns die Welt, wie sie uns gefällt." Mutig sein, wer und wie man ist, und Missstände anprangern - ohne ein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen - dafür steht Lindgren. Ideal für alle, die das Kin……続きを見る

Wie zufällig lernt Eva auf einem Studentenball Andreas kennen. Eine kurze, intensive und unvergessliche Begegnung - aus der eine große, einzigartige Liebe erwachsen wird. Durch die persönlichen, abe……続きを見る

In diesem Buch nimmt sich ein Literaturwissenschaftler, der ein Berufsleben lang immer das Andere, Literatur von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern, betrachtet hat, einmal das Eigene vor, ohne ……続きを見る

William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability ……続きを見る

This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn a……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations inclu……続きを見る

Jeder erhält das Geschenk seiner Jugend, wenn man es denn ein Geschenk nennen kann. Eine Jugend "auf St Pauli" in der Nachkriegszeit ist etwas Besonderes, besonders dreckig, hungrig, spießig und jen……続きを見る

On a cold, dark winter day during the Second World War, a young Alan Bradley found hidden beneath a floorboard in his mother’s bedroom closet a well-worn cardboard shoebox. At the time, he could mak……続きを見る

(Poems from a Drawer) is a compilation of poems written by Ronald Kent. Some were written years ago and others more recently. They cover current events such as Lac Megantic, Sandy Hook, and bul……続きを見る

When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately around my native town of Dunba……続きを見る