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On a beaucoup écrit sur Mark Twain. Cependant, peu de choses ont été faites pour entendre ses propres mots, pensées et sentiments concernant sa vie, ses défis et ses succès. La série En ses propres termes vise précisément ce but, en commençant par présenter l'homme qui était le plus...

Se ha escrito mucho sobre Mark Twain. Sin embargo, poco se ha hecho para escuchar sus propias palabras, pensamientos y sentimientos acerca de su vida, desafíos y éxitos. La serie En Sus Propias Palabras tiene precisamente ese propósito, comenzando con él como el mayor ingenio de su época y...

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband.

தமிழ்த்தாத்தா டாக்டர் உ.வே.சா. அவர்கள் எழுதிய தன் வரலாற்று நூல் இது.

This Very Short introduction explores the major themes of Austen criticism through close analysis of her major and minor works, with particular emphasis on the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which the novels emerge, and with which they engage. Thomas Keymer combines critical introductions to each of Austen's six major novels with an exploration of the key themes in her works.

Ces souvenirs de jeunesse composent le portrait délicat d’une âme en formation. Au fil de pages attentives, une mémoire scrute ses premiers éblouissements, ses heurts discrets, et ces instants qui, sans bruit, fondent une vie. Entre retenue et ferveur, le récit fait affleurer la légende intime d’une enfance et la persistance des premières impressions. Une méditation sensible sur ce qui demeure quand les années passent: des images, des voix, la justesse d’un regard—invitation à se laisser porter par la grâce d’une évocation simple et profonde.

இப்படி எண்ண எண்ண இனிக்கும் வாழ்வின் சில இனிய தருணங்களை என்னுடன் சேர்ந்து அசைபோடலாம் வாருங்கள்....

Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age twenty-seven. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all. Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's long-forgotten Love and Silence in a Cairo book stall, she embarks on a journey of reflection and rediscovery that leads her ever closer to the world and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.

No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey—with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods—have inspired us for over two and a half millennia and influenced writers from Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, and Dante to Margaret Atwood.

René Guénon explore, derrière l’œuvre de Dante, une signification initiatique que la lecture profane ignore. Refusant toute grille « systématique », il montre que le symbolisme ne se laisse pas réduire: chaque signe ouvre sur des perspectives illimitées, et l’essentiel demeure de l’ordre de l’inexprimable. Plutôt qu’un traité clos, ce livre est un point de départ: il suggère des voies de recherche, appelle une compréhension vraie et invite à mesurer l’étroitesse de nos conceptions courantes.

Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of US literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's Walden, an autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. It has generated scores of literary imitations and experiments in back-to-basics living.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an 18th-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project, and singlehandedly carried it out. By war's end, he had supplied Washington's army with most of its weapons and powder, though he was never paid or acknowledged by the United States. To some, he was a dashing hero - a towering intellect who saved the American Revolution. To others, he was pure rogue.

Las memorias de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa demuestran que su vida está a la altura de cualquiera de sus novelas. En una conversación desenfadada e íntima, el autor hace un repaso de su vida, desde sus tiempos de corresponsal de guerra a sus colaboraciones con Jacques Cousteau, pasando por sus experiencias en la caza de elefantes o como viajero a través de todo el mundo, sin olvidar su proceso de creación como autor. Un relato apasionante de una vida dedicada a contar historias.

In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb.

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the twentieth century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac's troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality stamped its importance on his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular language that united thoughts on the human condition and spiritual liberation.

On a beaucoup écrit sur Mark Twain. Cependant, peu de choses ont été faites pour entendre ses propres mots, pensées et sentiments concernant sa vie, ses défis et ses succès. La série En ses propres termes vise précisément ce but, en commençant par présenter l'homme qui était le plus grand esprit de son époque et l'auteur des Aventures de Huckleberry Finn, le grand roman américain, des Aventures de Tom Sawyer, le grand roman pour garçons, et de La Tragédie de Pudd'nhead Wilson, un bijou méconnu sauf pour les lecteurs avertis.

In this startling group memoir, four friends - Black and White, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance.

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 Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne is a listener's guide to every novel Jules Verne wrote; in that respect alone, there is no other book like it on the market. But it’s more than that. Nick DiMartino has included several essays evaluating Verne’s overall approach as a writer and the values embodied in his work. He has included as well a number of deeply personal essays about his struggles with the loneliness, pain, and lack of mobility that came with being an amputee.

Con una scrittura intima e vivida, l'autrice racconta storie di umanità e natura, in un affresco emotivo dove i cavalli diventano specchio e guida del percorso interiore. La narrazione, tra paesaggi toscani e atmosfere sudamericane, rivela una sensibilità rara nel cogliere le sfumature dell'esistenza, le molteplici forme dell'amore, per gli animali, per i luoghi, per le persone, e il coraggio necessario per trovare la propria strada.