Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jos� Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his belov……続きを見る
A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on ph……続きを見る
Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s ‘Girls’ and the award-winning movie ‘Tiny Furniture’, displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this excep……続きを見る
Ein Schatz für alle Kafka-Liebhaber
Über drei Jahrzehnte hat der große Kafka-Biograph Reiner Stach Daten rund um das Leben von Franz Kafka gesammelt: Er hat eine unendliche Fülle an Material zusamme……続きを見る
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"
Shaun Bythell is the owner of……続きを見る
Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.
In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views ……続きを見る
著者:Derek Jarman
出版社: Random House
発売日: 2017年12月14日
Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s.
In 1986 Derek Jarman discover……続きを見る
**A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years
'The best German book there is' Nietzsche**
By the turn of the ninet……続きを見る
Diese Aufzeichnungen sind eine Hommage an das Land, in das Heinrich Böll 1954 seine erste wirkliche Auslandsreise unternahm und das ihm in den darauffolgenden Jahren mehr und mehr zur Wahlheimat wur……続きを見る
著者:Isabelle de Charrière
出版社: A Paris [i.e. Lausanne] : [Durand], 1793
発売日: 2017年05月03日
Vingt-huit lettres fictives datées du 19 avril au 16 juillet 1793, composées entre mai et juillet 1793. C’est dire que l’auteure écrit à chaud, en prise directe avec l’actualité: en janvier 1793, Lo……続きを見る
Saint Ambrose, also known as Aurelius Ambrosius, is one of the four original doctors of the Church. He was the Bishop of Milan and became one of the most important theological figure of the 4th cent……続きを見る
Dreißigjährig, nach Jahren erfolgloser Arbeit an seinem ersten Romanprojekt «Ich, der Henker», den Bekenntnissen eines Naziverbrechers, entschließt Imre Kertész sich zu einer «nüchternen Selbstprüfu……続きを見る
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BETWEEN OURSELVES, IN CONVERSATION WITH TARA FLYNN
Laugh your socks off with this hilarious collection of tales, observations and flights of fancy from the No. 1 bestsell……続きを見る
GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, usually known as Pliny the Younger, was born at Como in 62 A. D. He was only eight years old when his father Caecilius died, and he was adopted by his uncle, the el……続きを見る
著者:Emily Dickinson
出版社: Wesleyan University Press
発売日: 2022年03月11日
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volu……続きを見る
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years
Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute……続きを見る
著者:J. J. Benítez
出版社: Editorial Planeta
発売日: 2020年10月27日
Horas antes de partir hacia su segunda vuelta al mundo, J. J. Benítez recibe una carta procedente de EE. UU. La carta es abierta, pero no leída. Juanjo embarca en el Costa Deliziosa y, en plena nave……続きを見る
Lun Xun is a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, ……続きを見る
著者:Cesare Pavese
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年09月08日
On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his o……続きを見る
Еще одно дарование Гончарова, развернувшееся в последние годы – эпистолярное. Обладая тактом «критической деликатности», писатель резко выступал против того, чтобы письма знаменитых людей становилис……続きを見る
著者:Claire Manes
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年03月26日
In 1924 when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy, now referred to as Hansen's Disease, stigmatized and disfigure……続きを見る
One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters an……続きを見る
著者:T. S. Eliot
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2013年07月16日
T. S. Eliot writes the letters contained in this volume during a period of weighty responsibilities as husband and increasing demands as editor and publisher. He cultivates the support of prominent ……続きを見る
著者:Jane Austen
出版社: Neeland Media LLC
発売日: 2012年01月01日
One of the most beloved authors in English literature, Jane Austen wrote myriad novels, stories and poems that illustrated her sophisticated sense of irony, humor and biting commentary on the societ……続きを見る
When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel. All but a prisoner to her strict, disciplinarian father, (who had f……続きを見る
‘Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious’ Daily Mail
Full of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother’s letters give readers a vivid insight into t……続きを見る
Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s.
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEA……続きを見る