wired - Literary 4

Una luce inedita e intima del grande scrittore Clive Staples Lewis attraverso la testimonianza del più importante biografo e studioso, suo segretario, discepolo e amico Walter Hooper. Ricordi, episo……続きを見る

William Henry Hudson was a well-respected author and naturalist. Hudson was born in Argentina to two English settlers and he would eventually settle in England where he produced many ornithological ……続きを見る

John Milton was a great English poet who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. With epic poems such as Paradise Lose and Paradise Regained, Milton remains ……続きを見る

What's so friendly about Jane Austen? Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless novels. In recent years, Austen has become more popular than ever as nearly ……続きを見る

Former star correspondent for CNN, Siobhan Darrow covered the world’s hottest war zones over the last two decades, reporting from the front lines in Moscow, Chechnya, the Balkans, Albania, Israel, a……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the ……続きを見る

The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- a……続きを見る

America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and ……続きを見る

Joe Castiglione is one of a few select announcers whose voice harkens fans back to the home field of their favorite team. After 30 years, his commentary has become as much a part of Boston Red Sox l……続きを見る

In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek t……続きを見る

"Who's Afraid of Edna O'Brien?" asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is……続きを見る

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of ……続きを見る

During the course of 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter million dollars on practically every method of gambling currently available in America. Chronicling his wild rid……続きを見る

Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World by Frederic V. Grunfeld (with an introduction by Michael Brenner; 134,000 words, 16 illustrations) Prophets Without Honour is a colle……続きを見る

In 1962 a small Morgan sports car TOK258 created history by defeating factory teams run by leading international manufacturers in the famous 24 hour race at the Le Mans circuit. The car crossed the ……続きを見る

Poetic expression of heart felt emotions during a time of tragedy, crisis, heartbreak, and rebirth. LaFreddie B lays it all on the line as he shares his real emotions during a very dark period of hi……続きを見る

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War de……続きを見る

Vom Millionär zum Glückspilz Man braucht keine Millionen, um ein vermögender Mann zu sein – diese Einsicht bringt den Unternehmer Karl Rabeder dazu, sich von seinem Besitz zu trennen und mit dem Erl……続きを見る

Dr. Audry Lynch, a Steinbeck scholar, has gathered together twenty reminiscences from people who knew John Steinbeck personally. The interviews cover three periods in Steinbeck's life in California:……続きを見る

The proprietor of the "The Bookstore" in Lenox, MA, the author, Matthew Tannenbaum, reflects on getting his start at the legendary Gotham Book Mart on West 47th Street in New York City. He writes, "……続きを見る

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) , a native of Amherst, New Hampshire , grew up the son of a poor farmer. His life reads like the quintessential American success story: from his humble beginnings he mov……続きを見る

Gore Vidal claimed there was no such thing as “gay,” only gay sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and sexualityーand how did it affect and influence his writing and public life? W……続きを見る

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist... At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie……続きを見る

Essays -- The book is a collection of a large number of short subjective treatments of various topics published in 1580. Montaigne's stated goal is to describe man, and especially himself, with utte……続きを見る

Straight from East New York, the dark heart of Brooklyn, RUMBLE IN BROOKLYN depicts the street fighting childhood of Joseph Trigoboff, who knew and exchanged blows with several of the murderous gan……続きを見る

"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person st……続きを見る

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) , a native of Amherst, New Hampshire , grew up the son of a poor farmer. His life reads like the quintessential American success story: from his humble beginnings he mov……続きを見る

What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir does for Greenwich Village in the late 1940s. In 1946, Anatole Broyard was a dapper, earnest, fled……続きを見る

During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychologi……続きを見る

Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slippin……続きを見る