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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain.

From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood

Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances....

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....

Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley....

David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....

This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars....

In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity....

A celebration of the startling wit and unexpected wisdom of the legendary science fiction author, featuring readings of Douglas Adams’s work, rare archival audio, plus interviews with his most famous friends and fans reflecting on the late author’s legacy.

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them....

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives....

New York Times best-selling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers....

From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues....

Bloomsbury presents The Loves of My Life by the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. Read by Joel Froomkin.

The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten....

From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars comes an enthralling literary adventure that introduces listeners to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen—and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.

America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears.

Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars....

America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history.”

Over the course of his sixty-year career, Elmore Leonard, “the Dickens of Detroit,” published forty-five novels that have had enduring appeal to readers around the world. Revered by Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, and Stephen King, his books were innovative in their blending of a Hemingway-inspired noirish minimalism and a masterful use of realistic dialogue over exposition—a direct evolution spurred by his years as a screenwriter. C. M. Kushins tells Leonard’s full life story.

The only child of a sheet-metal worker and a dinner lady who worked at the canteen of the local school, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of the Depression and the Second World War. But far from being a story of hardship overcome, this loving memoir is a celebration of opportunities afforded by the post-war settlement, of which the author was an unconscious beneficiary. The crux comes at the age of eleven with the exam that decided the future of generations of British schoolkids: secondary modern or the transformative possibilities of grammar school?

Douglas Adams, the legendary author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is one of the most beloved authors of all time. Twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to be read by new generations and his creations along with his ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything being “42”, have seeped deep into public consciousness.

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John.

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output.

Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends – such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve – has changed the way we view society. In his new book, Handy, looking back over a rich and varied life, shares the lessons he has learned along the way. What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us?

This book explores the world of three American expatriate writers in the Europe of the 1920's and 30's.

L’Autobiogrammatica che avete tra le mani è un gioco sorprendente e vertiginoso: il racconto di un’esistenza – unica e comune – come la storia di un linguaggio. Esiste un legame segreto tra le due linee sinuose lungo cui si snoda la nostra vita: da una parte l’apprendistato dell’alfabeto, dei nomi, del lessico famigliare, dell’insulto, dello scherzo, delle lingue straniere, dei codici segreti, della poesia; dall’altra l’invadente amore per i genitori, la scuola che è un viaggio nell’ignoto, le seduzioni e dilazioni dell’amicizia e del desiderio, la contrattazione di un posto nel mondo.

Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, What Matters in Jane Austen? solves the mysteries of Austen’s fictional world. Jane Austen’s novels have been a staple of the English canon since the nineteenth century. Yet critics of the time did not appreciate the true complexity of her work. Nothing, John Mullan argues, is accidental or coincidental in Austen. As Austen herself said, she wrote for readers who have "a great deal of ingenuity themselves."

Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a thinker and writer reach far beyond this text. She was a multi-faceted author, and although the condition of women was a constant preoccupation throughout her life, she wrote on a wide variety of topics and in a range of literary forms, some of which she created herself.

The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th century. Gerald turned them into celebrities with his tripartite memoir, beginning with My Family and Other Animals (1956) which told of his experiences with his widowed mother Louisa and three siblings during their time in 1930s Corfu. We know of the Durrells from their own writings and from the image of them created by TV, film and biographical accounts of specific figures. What we do not know is the truth.

In a world overflowing with information, few manage to craft ideas into books that truly stand out from the noise. Transform Ideas into Books is a bold, tactical, and convenient guide for aspiring and seasoned authors who are ready to rise above the amateur writing grind and enter the elite ranks of modern authorpreneurs. What sets this book apart is its focus on practical strategies, modern tools, and a long-term approach to authorship. Structured into four strategic parts, this book offers more than just inspiration—it delivers a blueprint. From uncovering the genesis of powerful book ...

Diez días después de cancelar su boda, CJ Hauser se embarcó en una expedición a Texas para estudiar a la grulla trompetera. Tras una semana chapoteando en las marismas del golfo comprendió que había estado a punto de firmar un contrato para vivir la vida de otra persona. ¿Qué pasaría si decidiéramos liberarnos de la idea tradicional de felicidad y nos abriéramos a lo inesperado? Hauser se sirve de su propia experiencia para explorar las relaciones sentimentales, los fracasos amorosos, la intimidad y la identidad en el siglo XXI.

Un poeta, un físico y un filósofo exploraron los mayores enigmas del universo: la naturaleza del libre albedrío, el extraño tejido del cosmos y los verdaderos límites de la mente, y descubrieron, cada uno a su manera, una reveladora verdad sobre nuestro lugar en el mundo. Porque como estos pensadores ponen de manifiesto, todos creamos una imagen sustancialmente incompleta del mundo.

El siglo XX se fue y se llevó consigo ambiciones sentenciadas al olvido. José Emilio Pacheco escribió en el ocaso del milenio los poemas reunidos en Siglo pasado (Desenlace) (1999-2000). En ellos decantó el último aliento de un tiempo que vio materializar y derrumbarse, un mundo de aspiraciones que se extinguió con su inevitable carga de gloria y decepción.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 223 This book examines the influence of members of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall on T. S. Eliot’s poetics, cultural criticism and his search for identity. It focusses particularly on Eliot’s friendship with Br George Every SSM, and the correspondence between them that led to a deep intellectual and spiritual relationship. The author builds his study on his own conversations and correspondence with Every, the archive of Society of the Sacred Mission papers in the Borthwick Institute in York, and the collection of papers and other material left to...

Spannende, stimmungsvolle aber auch dramatische Flugerlebnisse verarbeitet der Autor in einem autobiographischen Roman; gesprochen wird lebendig mit etwas differenzierten Stimmen; Kino im Kopf - Film im Kopf mit viel Gefühl von Dr. Feelbook Deutsche Übersetzung von Annette Lallemend

Opowieść o Januszu Przymanowskim, który „Rudym 102" zawojował całą Polskę Czy jest choć jeden dorosły Polak, który nie słuchał serialu „Czterej pancerni i pies"? Podczas emisji w peerelowskiej TVP każdego z odcinków wyludniały się ulice i podwórka. Ten popularny cykl zatrzymywał przed ekranami wiele pokoleń, a jego popularność trwa do dzisiaj. Sama książka Janusza Przymanowskiego to także fenomen, i to nie tylko w sensie literackim, ale socjologicznym i kulturowym. Skąd sukces opowieści, w której można znaleźć sporo naiwności, wręcz komiksowych uproszczeń?

¿Se puede vivir de escribir, o se vive para hacerlo? En Dinero y escritura, Olivia Teroba comparte su lúcida mirada sobre las complejidades que implica imaginar una vida centrada en el arte en el mundo contemporáneo. A la vez, se posiciona frente a temas tabúes para quienes se dedican a este oficio, como la economía personal, los premios literarios, las deudas, la somatización y las herencias familiares.