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पश्चिम महाराष्ट्रातली पोरं लै डेरींगबाज. प्रत्येक गोष्ट त्यांना उसाच्या शेतात न्यायचीच लै घाई. अशा एका...

विदर्भातल्या छोट्याशा गावातल्या पोरीने आपल्या प्रियकराला लिहलेले तिचं पहिलं प्रेमपत्र…...

कोकणी माणूस फणसासारखा असं म्हणतात. आतून प्रेमळ असला तरी मूर्तीमंत खवचटपणा आणि त्यात वेंधळेपणा असेल तर काय...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'How much I learned from this brave man... The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey With an Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas _______________ Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor...

Final words and heartfelt remembrances from bestselling author Pat Conroy take center stage in this winning nonfiction collection, supplemented by touching pieces from Conroy’s many friends. This new volume of Pat Conroy’s nonfiction brings together some of the most charming interviews...

"L'intranquillité" de Fernando Pessoa met en scène les différents hétéronymes que l'auteur avait inventés pour se permettre des styles d'écriture divers, voire opposés. Ces personnages prennent une certaine consistance dans ce journal intime qui mêle réalité vécue et réalité littéraire. Écrit à partir de 1913 et jusqu'à la mort de Pessoa en 1935, ce texte est à la fois préoccupé, libre et poétique.

Winner of the 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is...

From their early days as tutor and scholar, discussing philosophy over Spartan dinners, to their work together to publish Einstein’s books in Europe, in Maurice Solovine Einstein found both an engaged mind and a loyal friend. While Einstein frequently shared his observations on science, politics, philosophy, and religion in his correspondence with Solovine, he was just as likely to express his feelings about everyday life.

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993), one of India's finest poets, translators, folklorists, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century, is a stalwart in India's literary history. His translations of ancient Tamil and medieval Kannada poetry, as well as of UR Ananthamurthy's novel Samskara, are...

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing while the ‘Lionel of Flanders’, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium.

John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft, he must first confront his brother's death from tuberculosis and then the imminent prospect of his own, tormented by the fear that he will not live to consummate his relationship with Fanny Brawne.

Winner of the 2018 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a...

Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell reveals, that's really only half the story. Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good.

Love Letters from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn offers a rare and intimate glimpse into one of the most consequential romances in English history. Written in the early 16th century, these private letters reveal a side of King Henry VIII rarely seen in official records: ardent, vulnerable, impatient, and deeply infatuated.

Il Camilleri dell'epistolario è un infervorato studente fuorisede. Vive a Roma. È un borsista dell'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. Ha due insigni maestri, Silvio d'Amico e Orazio Costa. Fa subito amicizia con Vittorio Gassman, giovane attore del teatro di posa. Lui studia regia teatrale. È un moderno Robinson Crusoe, che di continuo deve inventarsi un alloggio sempre provvisorio, le suppellettili necessarie, tutti i gesti della giornata tra il lavaggio della biancheria e la ricerca di un ristorantino alla portata delle sue tasche semivuote. Camilleri è giovane, giovanissimo.

A spirited exploration of the diary, from pen-and-paper to TikTok, for the people who write—and read—them Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor Swift We know what it was like to be an out lesbian in 19th-century England, what the inner...

From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf—two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all. Whether you’re seeking something to believe in or no...

23½ Ways to Make a Girl Fall for You is arguably the most incorrect piece of work ever written. Eclipsing even Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, this book is a huge mathematical error. However, once you can bypass the glaring mistakes, which only end two minutes after the book is over, there is plenty of information to be gleaned by the novice male lover-to-be. Although very little of that information will be helpful, I'm sure you'll all join me in saying that the effort was there.

Dronning Ingrid er Annelise Bistrups indsigtsfulde værk om prinsesse Ingrids opvækst ved det svenske hof. Vi får et detaljeret indblik i den svenske prinsesses liv sammen med Kong Frederik IX og tiden efter hans død, hvor hun fortsætter sit officielle liv som dronning.

'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters. Here's what readers are saying: 'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A wonderful record of a remarkable...