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The six wives of Henry VIII have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either. Inevitably there was great rivalry and jealously between them. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling.

History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their 'adventures and feelings' during two journeys from England to Switzerland at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

"Jeg er levemand" er den sjette i rækken af Agnes Henningsens erindringsbøger. I "Jeg er levemand" indledes fortællingen med Holger Drachmanns sagnomspundne 60-årsfest i 1906 og fortsætter med en lang række portrætter af datidens teaterfolk og forfattere.

"A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience."--Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughter In 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an...

Amelia Earhart (Atchinson, 1898-Pacífico Sur, 1937). Cuando volar un avión era un acto más que temerario, Amelia Earhart fue la primera mujer que cruzó el Atlántico y el Pacífico en solitario. Además de sus hazañas como piloto, escribió tres libros y muchos artículos con los relatos de...

Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser conhecida como Elke Maravilha. Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz, modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a...

Du kender Jane Austens uddødelige værker, men kender du Jane Austen selv? I denne podcast fortæller Lise-Lotte Frederiksen indlevende og vidende om Jane Austens liv og samtid. Bliv klogere på hendes opvækst, hendes familie og hendes kærlighedsliv, og på den tid, hun skrev og levede i. LISE LOTTE FREDERIKSEN er cand.mag. i dansk, engelsk og teatervidenskab. Hun har undervist det meste af sit liv, men har de sidste fem år primært holdt foredrag om litteratur og gået litterære byvandringer i europæiske byer.

2009 wurde sie als erste Frau Hofpoetin bei der britischen Krone. Ihre Aufgabe: Im Gegensatz zum Hofnarren, der den König bloßstellen darf, soll der Hofdichter die Taten der Majestät in den höchsten Tönen preisen. Die einzigartigen Biografien laden dazu ein, sich mit der Geschichte der Frauen zu befassen, die den Mut hatten, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und schließlich ihr Ziel erreichten, die Erste zu sein!

Para Carmen, 2012 es un punto de inflexión. Tiene setenta y cinco años. La salud le empieza a fallar, los temblores repentinos aumentan y en una cena con amigos ocurre lo peor… Para más inri, sus problemas se multiplican cuando se sienta en el banquillo acusada de proxenetismo. Poco antes...

Newlywed Lisa Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life.

A gripping memoir from acclaimed poet Damian Rogers about being raised by a loving but erratic single mother who is today diagnosed with a rare form of frontal-lobe dementia. In the vein of Plum Johnson's They Left Us Everything, Leanne Shapton's Swimming Studies, Jeannette Walls' The Glass...

Los ensayos de este audio libro nacieron como un reconocimiento a la calidad del trabajo de cada una de las autoras que aparecen. "Su original impronta se presta a esos juegos que establezco cuando abordo el ensayo: trenzar la vida y la obra de los artistas con el fin de establecer correspondencias secretas," afirma Beatriz Espejo.Beatriz conoció y trató a cada una de las autoras en circunstancias y momentos diferentes y, asegura, las abordó en sus afanes narrativos debido a una genuina admiración por cada una de ellas.

A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don’t Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to...