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Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated from the German by Anselm Hollo; 133,000 words and 40 illustrations) Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet……続きを見る

Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was ……続きを見る

" Je ne suis passionné de rien mais j'aime tout ", a coutume de dire Philippe Etchebest, avant d'ajouter avec fougue : " Et tout ce que je fais, j'essaie de le faire bien. Je le fais avec cœur et be……続きを見る

Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was att……続きを見る

Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Association (under the author's co-leadership) was eme……続きを見る

This 225-page book provides a candid portrait of the awesome heroism of Most Rev. Hannah Caroline Faal-Heim, the Presiding Methodist Bishop of The Gambia, who put her life in harm’s way to speak out……続きを見る

Georges Rémi Jr est l'homonyme de son oncle, plus connu sous son nom de plume : Hergé (22 mai 1907- 3 mars 1983). Il raconte ici ses souvenirs avec tristesse et révolte, le sentiment d'un rendez-vou……続きを見る

Ne sachant guère que le fait de penser a une quelconque conséquence sur notre existence, je découvre grâce à ma curiosité que ceci est une option à ne pas négliger. Mes souvenirs et mes expériences ……続きを見る

Austin Mardon is a respected advocate for the mentally ill. His academic career was cut short when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Prior to that he had been to the South Pole with NASA, and had……続きを見る

Un memoir su cosa significhi oggi vivere da poveri nel paese più ricco del mondo, gli Stati Uniti. «Le difficili esperienze di Stephanie Land fanno riflettere, ma a colpirci è soprattutto l'idea di ……続きを見る

La obra fotoperiodística de Christa Cowrie fue publicada en el diario uno más uno por más de 25 años. A partir de una cuidadosa selección, en este libro se analizan, por un lado, el poder solemne en……続きを見る

In Simple Pleasures: Thoughts on Food, Friendship, and Life we have highlighted two chapters from Stephanie Mill’s reflection the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties, of a perhaps sim……続きを見る

Ce témoignage d’un officier du renseignement d’Israël lève pudiquement un coin du voile sur les actions secrètes menées par l’auteur aux quatre coins du monde. Il y a une forte dose d’espoir et de d……続きを見る

June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play Something's Wrong, and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to vanities and foibles. Ifs and Buts conti……続きを見る

F Scott Fitzgerald is widely praised as the finest and most celebrated novelist of twentieth century America. His reputation is infinitely more lustrous since his untimely death than it was for much……続きを見る

My notebooks are my conscience,' writes Frederic Raphael. 'They contain a writer's letters to himself.' This second volume of his notebooks covers the first three years of the 1970s: years of slump,……続きを見る

In 1951, when he was twenty, the novelist, screen-writer and homme-de-lettres-to-be Frederic Raphael bought a spiral-bound notebook from Joseph Gibert in the Boulevard St Michel and started keeping ……続きを見る

Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphael's acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the author's eventful and provocative life, opinions and times drawn from his ……続きを見る

Quel est le rôle de l'art dans notre société ? À quelles sources les artistes puisent-ils leur inspiration ? *** Entretiens avec : Barbara Pravi, Abd al Malik, Guillaume Canet, Juliette Fievet, Féli……続きを見る

In this biography, chronological chapters follow Zora Neale Hurston's family, upbringing, education, influences, and major works, placing these experiences within the context of American history. Th……続きを見る

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helmーas well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journa……続きを見る

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender ……続きを見る

**Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine’s April 2018 book pick A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choi……続きを見る

Pourquoi, en France, un seul accent est-il jugé " normal " ? Pourquoi n'entend-on jamais ou presque à la télévision ou à la Comédie-Française les intonations du Gers, du Nord, d'Alsace ou de Corse ?……続きを見る

How can a lone female of “a certain age” take her last stand on a stony wedge of land in the mountains of Northern New Mexico? Will she find a job, learn to chop wood, be eaten by a bear or give it ……続きを見る

Certainement subsiste une présence de Minuit. L’heure n’a pas disparu par un miroir, ne s’est pas enfouie en tentures, évoquant un ameublement par sa vacante sonorité. Je me rap……続きを見る

 Certainement subsiste une présence de Minuit. L’heure n’a pas disparu par un miroir, ne s’est pas enfouie en tentures, évoquant un ameublement par sa vacante sonorité. Je ……続きを見る

1961 erschoss sich Ernest Hemingway. Er liebte den Stierkampf, die Jagd, die Frauen und die Feste. Warum dieses brutale Ende nach einem so energiegeladenen Leben? Der stern schaute sich am Tatort in……続きを見る

This book is a comic narrative about the real life of a full–time writer. Stephanie Dickison had been successfully publishing features and articles for over a decade while working a full–time job bu……続きを見る

Certainement subsiste une présence de Minuit. L’heure n’a pas disparu par un miroir, ne s’est pas enfouie en tentures, évoquant un ameublement par sa vacante sonorité. Je me rap……続きを見る