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International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. He has been diagnosed with severe depressio……続きを見る

Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essa……続きを見る

Sir John Willison (1856-1927) was the most influential Canadian journalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries while the country achieved economic growth, intellectual maturation, and world st……続きを見る

Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed "Dr. Foth," Fotheringhamgraduated from the University of British Columbia andhas worked for numerous ……続きを見る

From his earliest days in Winnipeg and throughout his varied and flamboyant career as a journalist and public relations manager, Ed Parker distinguished himself as a dynamic, creative, energetic inn……続きを見る

Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence’s life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and fa……続きを見る

'[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age... ' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably t……続きを見る

'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life. Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise and helpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority o……続きを見る

This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on let……続きを見る

New biography of one of the key figures in British history focusing on both his writing and legacy. Mark Nicholls is President and Librarian of St John's College, Cambridge. 続きを見る

Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir. PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and poten……続きを見る

A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairn by the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroboros and the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy. Eric Rucker Eddison’s first book, orig……続きを見る

Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) was a Spanish writer who lived in Rome in the second half of the first century AD. He wrote only in the genre of epigram, invented by the Greeks, which he chose b……続きを見る

This book explores the significant intellectual impact the philosopher Jean Wahl had on the directions Gilles Deleuze took as a philosopher and writer of a philosophy of experimentation. The study o……続きを見る

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other ……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. ‘He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned t……続きを見る

Contents Rose À Charlitte (1898) Beautiful Joe Daisy Beautiful Joe- BEAUTIFUL JOE is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life……続きを見る

'When he was at Florence he contracted a friendship with the famous Galileo Galileo, whom he extremely venerated and magnified; and not only as he was a prodigious wit, but for his sweetness of natu……続きを見る

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

Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century’s most important poet from……続きを見る

Pauline Frederick Reporting is the biography of the life and career of the first woman to become a network news correspondent. After no less an authority than Edward R. Murrow told her there was no ……続きを見る

Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee. Published posthumously in 1957, A Death in the Family won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958……続きを見る

At the age of eight, Balzac was placed as boarder at the Collége de Vendôme, where, through the compression of his dreamy nature by unaccustomed tasks and rules, he soon lapsed into a careless negle……続きを見る

Essays reflecting on the music, politics and social revolutions that shaped who we are today. l 続きを見る

Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examp……続きを見る

The first book in V. S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy – with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but a……続きを見る

Voici le carnet de bord d’une virée au pays des maharadjahs, ou si vous voulez, la narration du vagabondage de M. Jourdain aux sources de la pensée indo-européenne, dans le contreforts de l’Himalaya……続きを見る

Ne cherchez pas à mettre un visage sur l’énergumène qui s’égare dans ces pages. Amateur d’ailleurs géographiques et temporels, inconstant dans ses passions, versatile en émotions, il ne se reconnaît……続きを見る

Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-size magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement. It was said, only half-jokingly, "If it wasn't in Jet, it didn't……続きを見る

For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This accessible guide to Hughes’ w……続きを見る