Valerie - Literary 1

These are the dishes that fuelled great writing. Ever wondered what Iris Murdoch might have served for supper, or how Emily Dickinson took her tea? The Writer’s Table brings together dining habits a……続きを見る

‘It is difficult to put this book into any category except that it is one of those friendly books that should be on one’s bedside table, where it will scare away into serenity the bogeys that someti……続きを見る

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and……続きを見る

Cette œuvre relate le parcours courageux d’une petite fille. Dans la grande maison de sa nounou, elle a appris à lire, à compter, à pleurer et à mentir. Lorsqu’elle a neuf ans et demi, à la rentrée ……続きを見る

‘En zo gebeurde het dat ik op mijn achttiende, elf jaar nadat de kinderbescherming mij onder toezicht had laten plaatsen en mijn ouders plechtig had beloofd goed voor me te zorgen, praktisch analfab……続きを見る

When an old boyfriend kisses Valerie and her marriage of neglect reaches a crescendo, she realizes she’s been lying to herself about being in love with her husband. With two special-needs kids, an a……続きを見る

Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) was a highly original author of fantastic fiction - novels and short stories - and a key in Irish conservative poitics during the first half o the Victorian age. This outs……続きを見る

Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wan……続きを見る

After more than sixty years in publishing, Valerie Mendes steps aside from her own fiction to offer us a unique glimpse into the professional, pioneering and private strands of her life. In Not Only……続きを見る

Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. His own writings, from the play A Voyage Round My F……続きを見る

"J'ai grandi dans une banlieue grise cernée par les tours. Du béton, du gris clair, du gris foncé, du gris sale, du gris triste et sans âme, du gris à perte de vue... Je pense que c'est pour ça que ……続きを見る

Ce livre cherche à découvrir le sens profond de la vie de Julien Assange qui veut révéler la vérité, rien que la vérité. Sa quête est motivée par une foi inébranlable : les preuves des actions des h……続きを見る

Jane Austen (1775–1817) hat in ihrem kurzen Leben sechs Romane veröffentlicht, die zu den unvergänglichen Werken der Weltliteratur gehören. Valerie Grosvenor Myer geht in ihrer Biographie u. a. den ……続きを見る

Loss. Hope. Love. The day Valerie discovered she was pregnant was the day her husband died. She didn't know how to be a widow. Widows were old. Not twenty-six and pregnant. Valerie moved cross-count……続きを見る

A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicke……続きを見る

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spi……続きを見る

Loss. Hope. Love. The day Valerie discovered she was pregnant was the day her husband died. She didn't know how to be a widow. Widows were old. Not twenty-six and pregnant. Valerie moved cross-count……続きを見る

The letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, He……続きを見る

A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers. Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly inf……続きを見る