Virginia - Biography & Memoir 3

A forty-year-long correspondence with a pen pal provided a record of the remarkable life of Mercedes Marinーa Filipino woman who overcame a Cinderella-like childhood and adolescence to elope with he……続きを見る

First published in 1962, this is a wonderful biography of General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925), one of America’s most celebrated generals. Author Virginia W. Johnson covers General Miles’ career; fro……続きを見る

Winner of the 2020 Silver Nautilus Book Award On a cold winter night in February of 1967, a large rock shattered a bedroom window in Virginia Walden Ford's home in Little Rock, Arkansas, landing in ……続きを見る

Anthropological Lives introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work anthropologists do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologi……続きを見る

Too Strong to Be Broken explores the dynamic life of Edward J. Driving Hawk, a Vietnam and Korean War veteran, chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, former president of the National Congress of Ameri……続きを見る

Tudo o que aqui é contado acontece mesmo. As aventuras são reais, como as da vida de cada um de nós. Trata-se de um livro autobiográfico febril e impetuoso, como um rio; às vezes devastador, mas che……続きを見る

È tutto vero! L'avventura qui è reale, quella della vita di ognuno di noi: un libro autobiografico febbrile, fluviale, a tratti devastante, ma pieno di arguzia, stimoli, mordente. Da leggere d'un fi……続きを見る

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackv……続きを見る

Forty-four and pregnant coupled with divorce proceedings. Things couldn’t get more complicated….until I received a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. How was I to take this journey alone? A single……続きを見る

"Nicolás lleva más tiempo muerto que vivo, pero esa proporción se invierte en mis escritos, donde regresa una y otra vez, sin cesar, porque lxs muertxs también se resisten a quedarse quietxs, fijxs,……続きを見る

From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with ……続きを見る

Many Roads to Home: New York to California reveals Virginia Wink Hilton’s inner and outer journey from the 1950s to the 1980s as she rears her three children and embraces an exciting, fulfilling voc……続きを見る

In 1920, my mother and my aunt, who were just thirteen and fourteen years old, went on an all-summer odyssey with a group of artists, led by their art teacher, renowned Texas artist Frank Reaugh, tr……続きを見る

This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mother Julia Stephen in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant a……続きを見る

La construcción de grandes presas ha desarraigado a millones de personas en el mundo rural. En España no hay datos oficiales, pero se estima que han desaparecido bajo el agua cientos de pueblos e in……続きを見る

Tomboy: Remembering a Family-Farm Childhood, 1934-1948 In 1934, Virginia Evans was introduced to the world of Sharon View Farm with a birth announcement in the Ayrshire Digest, the journal of the na……続きを見る

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under for……続きを見る

**The rediscovered memoir of an American gossip columnist turned “amazingly brilliant reporter” (The New York Times Book Review) as she reports from the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and World……続きを見る

Este maravilloso relato es una meditación compleja sobre la naturaleza de la biografía, algo que seguiría explorando a lo largo de su vida. La complejidad proviene del hábil manejo de Woolf de las c……続きを見る

“Street Haunting: A London Adventure” is a 1930 essay written by Virginia Woolf, inspired by observations made whilst walking the streets of London. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English……続きを見る

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narr……続きを見る

Pablo Escobar es quizás la mente criminal más aterradora y compleja del último siglo. Para acabar con él en 1993, fueron necesarios cientos de agentes estadounidenses y un comando especial de la pol……続きを見る

In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma. 'I was j……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories. Born in……続きを見る

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband,……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the au……続きを見る

Margo Lewers was a leading exponent of Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism during the 1950s - 70s, yet her work, like that of many 20th century female artists, is not well-known today. This book ……続きを見る

En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo, planteó la cuestión desde un punto de vista realista, valiente y particula……続きを見る

As histórias têm o poder de inspirar e ensinar. Elas geram emoções que tornam nossas experiências inesquecíveis. Quando alguém se dedica a compartilhar um acontecimento, ele abre o que há de mais ín……続きを見る

The Cloak is a gripping tale of inner and outer transformation of a seemingly happily married mother of four who over ten tumultuous years faces extraordinary experiences that change her life. With ……続きを見る