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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Every……続きを見る

Hurdles presents true episodes in the lives of my wife, a pediatrician; myselfーthe authorーa chemical engineer; and of our four young children. Having survived World War II, we arrive in this count……続きを見る

A beautifully rendered portrait of family and loss, of childhood and manhood by a supremely gifted writer evaluating the sum of his experiences and emerging with a moving work of the highest level. ……続きを見る

The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David ……続きを見る

This book deals with the life and career of Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), whose research in a great variety of fields, particularly the historical phonology of the Chinese language, laid the founda……続きを見る

"A beautifully cadenced work of artーit will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."ーJoyce Carol Oates Paris in the 1930sーmelancholy, erotic, intensely politicizedーprovides the p……続きを見る

This is the true story of Totò Riina, the Cosa Nostra boss who rose from nothing to become the most powerful man in Sicily. The picture emerges of a bloodthirsty, power-hungry monster who, despite h……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'égoïsme domine d'abord en nous. Peu à peu, le choc des autres égoïsmes le ramène à de plus juste proportions, il s'épure par l'amitié, s'ennoblit par l'amour, s'étend à la famille et à ……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Das Feuer (Autobiographischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Das Feuer ist ein Roman des italie……続きを見る

"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom an……続きを見る

David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone wort……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 25 July 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of ……続きを見る

Regorgeant d’anecdotes pleines de vie, « Mes souvenirs » relate la vie de Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, de son enfance à sa vie de jeune épouse. Re……続きを見る

Cette œuvre est composée de trois nouvelles : Valentia, Hervé et Julien. Valentia est une œuvre de fiction autobiographique - Mes plus anciens souvenirs me montrent une petite chambre……続きを見る

In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P.D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, 'a time to be in earnest', as Dr Johnson s……続きを見る

From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encoun……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

Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explor……続きを見る

A tratti spassoso e divertente, a tratti amaro e graffiante, “Ciccione” è il diario fedele, sincero e senza mediazioni di una vita oversize. Con il piglio del cronista e la penna del narratore, l’au……続きを見る

CE discours est un vieil ouvrage d’un des meilleurs Esprits de nostre siecle, qu’il ne m’est permis de te nommer : Il le fit par divertissement, dans un temps auquel il eut pû le donner au public sa……続きを見る

Extrait : IL y a terriblement d’années, je m’en allais chasser le gibier d’eau dans les marais de l’Ouest, ー et comme il n’y avait pas alors de chemins de fer dans le pays où il me fallait voyager,……続きを見る

Born in Millheim, Texas, to a family of German immigrants who moved to Texas in the wake of the 1848 revolution, William Andreas Trenckmann was a teacher, journalist, and publisher who successfully ……続きを見る

“If one more rando tells me that women have to be raped in fantasy because that’s how it was back then, I am going to cut someone. With a spoon.” And so was born this eclectic collection of essays a……続きを見る

Theodor Fontane war einer der modernsten Autoren seiner Zeit (1819–1898) Er schrieb Balladen über amerikanische Dampfschiffe und Eisenbahnunfälle in Schottland, als Journalist und Romanautor war er ……続きを見る

À M. César Daly Pendant que vous voyagez, mon cher Daly, et que le souvenir de vos amis ne sait où vous prendre, voici quelque chose (je n’ose pas dire un livre) qui vous attendra à votre seuil. C’e……続きを見る

Suivre pas à pas la marche de l’esprit humain dans ses capricieuses pérégrinations à travers un monde idéal ; analyser minutieusement certains détails de nature à jeter une vive lumière sur l’ensemb……続きを見る

Diplomat, Asian scholar, author, polyglot, polymath, passionate lover of life in all its forms, Robert van Gulik researched and wrote prolifically on a wide range of Asian subects, such as Chinese s……続きを見る

In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and travelled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon……続きを見る

The only reprint since its publication in 1924, this impassioned memoir of the often fruitless labors of an Italian immigrant in America describes the harsh, inhumane working conditions that immigra……続きを見る

Extrait : "A la fin de la session de 1839, une discussion plus brillante qu'utile avait eu lieu dans les Chambres sur la question d'Orient. L'attention du gouvernement et du public était éveillée : ……続きを見る