Ｙ．Ａ - Essays 5

In her second book, award-winning actor Divya Dutta recounts her experiences with some of the stalwarts of Bollywood who played a significant role in her film journey. She talks about the inspiratio……続きを見る

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue dur�e o……続きを見る

Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories se……続きを見る

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eig……続きを見る

Sieben Jahre nach dem Tode von Rudolf Augstein erhob Martin Walser erstmals im November 2009 Anspruch auf die Vaterschaft von dessen ältestem Sohn Jakob. Und dieser gibt erstmals Martin Walser als s……続きを見る

Louisa May Alcott's 'Onder Moeders Vleugels' is een klassieke coming-of-age roman die het verhaal vertelt van de vier zusjes March - Meg, Jo, Beth en Amy - die opgroeien tijdens de Amerikaanse Burge……続きを見る

Conversaciones con Ian McEwan reúne catorce entrevistas que abarcan cuarenta años de la trayectoria del autor de Expiación, Sábado y Chesil Beach. En diálogo con prestigiosos escritores como Martin ……続きを見る

«Perteneció a la estirpe de estos contempladores de mirada libre y liberadora, con una conciencia exaltada de lo real, que no puede sino significar una exaltada conciencia del propio ser, una pasión……続きを見る

"During my first post-lockdown massage, I willingly engaged in the requisite chit chat about lockdown experiences with my therapist. He gushed behind his mask: ‘Oh man. It was so great. Every day I ……続きを見る

This collection of Flash Fiction goes great with coffee during your day and goes great with a drink at the end of your day! 続きを見る

The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangeli……続きを見る

'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' Guardian What advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? ……続きを見る

The word 'kama' means the desire for sensual pleasure in Sanskrit, and was considered an essential part of the well-rounded education of a young, urbane gentleman. Treating pleasure as an art, Kama ……続きを見る

India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an ……続きを見る

RUNNER-UP OF THE 2020 BODLEY HEAD / FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE 'It's an exhausting, futile battle, really. Every night, the same smug cockroach squeezes herself out of my bathroom drain's grilled l……続きを見る

They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually ……続きを見る

Wie ein Sturm ist das Werk Emily Brontës in das Leben von Mithu Sanyal hineingefegt. Die erste Lektüre des Romans »Sturmhöhe: Wuthering Heights« hatte für die Autorin von »Identitti« lebensprägende,……続きを見る

यह मेरा पाँचवाँ व्यंग्य-संकलन है। इसके साथ कहानी और व्यंग्य के संकलनों की संख्या बराबर हो गयी। कहानी और व्यंग्य समान गति से लिखने और प्रकाशित होने के बावजूद दूसरा व्यंग्य-संग्रह बहुत विलंब से प्रकाश……続きを見る

Rudyard Kipling's 'Limits and Renewals' is a collection of short stories that explore themes of human nature, moral growth, and the complexities of life. Kipling's literary style is characterized by……続きを見る

**A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that……続きを見る

Mistakes. We all make them. But should there always be regrets? If you like true-life stories in the self-help genre, you are in the right place. It was a mistake is a how-to manual for professional……続きを見る

1947 में हिंदुस्तान को आज़ादी मिली, साथ विभाजन हुआ जिससे एक अलग इस्लामी राष्ट्र पाकिस्तान बना। इस विभाजन और आजादी से भारत की जनता को राजनीतिक और धार्मिक स्वतंत्रता की उम्मीद बंधी थी, लेकिन मिला, भयान……続きを見る

Era Dostoievski quien decía: Si no nos salvamos todos, de qué sirve que se salven algunos. La memoria literaria reacciona entonces ante esos muros de amnesia y olvido levantados en nuestras sociedad……続きを見る

My dear reader! Before you is the first volume of the book "In the UZ Zone", congratulations, a lot of impressions await you, and not always positive ones! The author wants to show the truth about m……続きを見る

Even when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch……続きを見る

This book is a personal memoir of a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to her family. It traces her life from childhood, to adulthood, to motherhood. It includes facts and fantasies, divine ……続きを見る

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, exp……続きを見る

Le Roman Comique du Chat Noir de Gabriel Montoya est une œuvre littéraire fascinante qui mêle satire politique, humour noir et réflexions profondes sur la condition humaine. À travers une série de c……続きを見る

For a few years in the early 1990s - when the embers of a violent agitation for Gorkhaland were slowly dying down - Parimal Bhattacharya taught at the Government College in Darjeeling. No Path in Da……続きを見る

Almost all of the Himalayas had been mapped by the time the Great Game - in which the British and Russian empires fought for control of Central and Southern Asia - reached its zenith in the latter h……続きを見る