Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This forthright biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem with his shif……続きを見る
Pour comprendre Léon Tolstoï, son évolution et ses doctrines, il faut d’abord le replacer dans le cadre habituel de son existence, dans son milieu national... La vie de l’auteur de "Guerre et Paix",……続きを見る
'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'
Meet a dazzling array of bold, brainy, mischievous and sometimes downright wicked women in this witty, empowering guide to Shakespeare’s fiercest female chara……続きを見る
La madrugada del 2 de noviembre de 1975, una patrulla de los carabinieri halló el cadáver de Pier Paolo Pasolini en un descampado de Ostia, a las afueras de Roma. El suceso conmocionó a la sociedad ……続きを見る
著者:Arundhati Roy
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2025年09月04日
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著者:Roy Macskimming
出版社: McClelland & Stewart
発売日: 2012年01月11日
A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing
Part cultural history, part personal memoir, this accomplished, sweeping, yet intimate book demonstrates that the story of Can……続きを見る
著者:Paul Conroy
出版社: Grand Central Publishing
発売日: 2013年10月08日
The true story of iconic war correspondent Marie Colvin (called by her peers "the greatest war correspondent of her generation") featured in the film A Private War, produced by Charlize Theron and s……続きを見る
著者:Pat Conroy
出版社: Le Nouveau Pont
発売日: 2018年05月23日
"J'ai détesté mon père bien avant de savoir qu'il existait un mot pour la haine."
Ce livre en forme de mémoires se lit comme un roman. Pat Conroy, auteur acclamé du Prince des Marées, revient ici su……続きを見る
Gustave Geffroy a été un des inventeurs du journalisme moderne.
Mais il est de ce siècle de géants, en pleine conscience de ce que leur a offert leur siècle. On ne raccourcit pas sa phrase sous prét……続きを見る
Soutien à Boualem Sansal
Dans cet ouvrage collectif, près de 40 auteurs unissent leurs voix pour soutenir Boualem Sansal, écrivain emprisonné en Algérie pour avoir défendu la liberté d'expression. À……続きを見る
The biggest super team since the X-Men comes the white hot music sensation One Direction! For the 1st time, the two sold out issues of the Fame One Direction join forces in one giant-sized graphic n……続きを見る
Author of some of the most memorable characters in all of literature, Charles Dickens is widely considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His work is timeless, transcending generations,……続きを見る
This award-winning history explores Sherlock Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle's obsession with the spiritualism movement.
ASJA Award-Winner in the Biography/History Category
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著者:Anindyo Roy
出版社: Hachette India
発売日: 2023年12月14日
Somewhere in the foothills of the Himalayas, a sixty-two-year-old English painter falls off his sketching stool. Overweight, asthmatic and prone to attacks of epilepsy, Edward Lear is nevertheless o……続きを見る
著者:Lorio Roy
出版社: Éditions de la Francophonie
発売日: 2023年10月31日
Il fut un temps où existait dans mon monde la notion de la panne devant la feuille blanche ! C’est un phénomène que je connais bien, mais qui existait au passé. Je l’ai remplacé par le café et la fe……続きを見る
著者:Sabarna Roy
出版社: One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
発売日: 2023年03月13日
Intense, morbid, stark, realistic, thought-provoking and unputdownable are the words that come to mind when you read Sabarna Roy's latest book: 'Thirty Summer Poems and Conversations about a Murder'……続きを見る
著者:Roy MacGregor
出版社: Random House of Canada
発売日: 2023年08月01日
One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories.
From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a v……続きを見る
著者:Nicholas Royle
出版社: Manchester University Press
発売日: 2023年12月05日
In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delve……続きを見る
L’année 2020 était censée s’ouvrir sur des moments mémorables en famille, avec pour objectif la découverte de Tokyo, son riche patrimoine culturel et ses paysages fascinants. Cependant, pour Nina, c……続きを見る
Zora Neale Hurston's 'Dust Tracks on a Road: Autobiography' is a remarkable depiction of the author's life journey through the lens of her unique literary style. Hurston's autobiographical work is c……続きを見る
著者:James Ellroy
出版社: RANDOM HOUSE
発売日: 2012年04月26日
James Ellroy, el legendario autor de novela policiaca, nos ofrece unas memorias crudas y brutalmente sinceras.
En 1959 James Ellroy tenía diez años. Un día, después de hacerle un regalo, su madre, J……続きを見る
Samuel Butler's 'The Way of All Flesh' is a poignant and satirical autobiographical novel that delves into the complexities of Victorian family life and society. Through the protagonist Ernest Ponti……続きを見る
The books of Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy are among the most beloved in Canadian literature. In 1976, when both were at the height of their careers, they began a seven-year written correspond……続きを見る
When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey first appeared in the late 1960s, it was hailed as a landmark in contemporary biography. Drawing on new material, published and unpublished, Holroyd completel……続きを見る
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Bernard Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions.
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'This is a book about surprises – at any rate, it has surprised me.'
In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something ……続きを見る
Michael Holroyd – the most famous biographer in Britain – turns his attention upon himself and his own family in Basil Street Blues (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was ……続きを見る
著者:Eugène Le Roy
出版社: Martine Dubouil
発売日: 2016年10月05日
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Le plus loin dont il me souvienne, c’est 1815, l’année que les étrangers vinrent à Paris, et où Napoléon, appelé par les messieurs du château de l’Herm « l’ogre de Corse », fut envoyé à Sa……続きを見る
著者:Roy Morris
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年06月14日
For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion une……続きを見る
著者:Roy Hattersley
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2017年07月06日
It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elega……続きを見る