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They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

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...

Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case. 

Based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult...

Nerval, qui fréquente la bohème rive-gauche et le « Cénacle » romantique, se prend en 1836 d'une folle passion pour l'actrice Jenny Colon, qui incarne tous ses rêves mais qui le délaisse pour se marier avec un musicien. Elle constituera par la suite l'une des figures féminines idéales, où se mêlent, dans un syncrétisme caractéristique de la pensée de Nerval, Marie, Isis, la reine de Saba... Cette passion malheureuse détermine un des traits caractéristiques de son œuvre : l'épanchement du songe dans la vie réelle, le fantastique et le rêve étant pour lui sources d'inspiration.

Toda novela genuina nace en diálogo o discusión con la tradición literaria. Entre los narradores hispanoamericanos contemporáneos son pocos los que escriben tan imbuidos de esa dinámica como el colombiano Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Este ensayo cuenta cómo Vásquez, en novelas como Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana o El ruido de las cosas al caer se enfrenta a la angustia de la influencia y crea a sus precursores.

Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns – ein zeithistorisches Ereignis Der Historiker Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk ediert erstmals Auszüge aus dem Tagebuchwerk von Wolf Biermann. In »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin« finden sich bewegende Einblicke in das Leben und Denken eines Mannes, der wie kein...

Zum 100. Todestag Rilkes: ein eindringliches Porträt des großen Dichters! Als Rainer Maria Rilke vor 100 Jahren starb, lagen ruhelose Jahrzehnte hinter ihm. Ob in der Künstlerkolonie Worpswede, bei dem Vorbild Rodin in Paris oder bei den Frauen, die ihn durchs Leben trugen, es hielt ihn nirgends lange. Der europaweit bestens vernetzte Einzelgänger, der bis zu Tolstoi nach Russland kam, wollte Bewegungsfreiheit, Berührungen, Resonanzen.

Bloomsbury presents Shakespeare's House by Richard Schoch, read by Mike Read. '[A] page-turning story' - Laurie Maguire, Times Literary Supplement 'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life Richard's Schoch's compelling history of...

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A Life. Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists. In his body of work...

In this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change. "This is one of the best memoirs of the decade—a cool-water baptism, so...

“Part memoir, part meditation on the life and work of Agatha Christie . . . moving, enlightening, hopeful, and a joy to read.” —Paula Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Hour One recent Christmas, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling memoirist Cathy Rentzenbrink finds...

One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings precipitated an avalanche of new books and authors in the genre.

Agatha Christie, British queen of crime novels: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Rick Moody ( The Ice Storm), Dinaw Mengestu ( All Our Names), and Hari Kunzru ( Gods Without Men) lead a spirited conversation about Sebald's classic.

In Walt Whitman Speaks, acclaimed author Brenda Wineapple draws from Traubel’s extensive interviews an extraordinary gathering of Whitman’s observations that conveys the core of his ethos and vision. Here is Whitman the sage, champion of expansiveness and human freedom. Here, too, is the poet’s more personal side - his vivid memories of Thoreau, Emerson, and Lincoln, his literary judgments on writers such as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Tolstoy, and his expressions of hope in the democratic promise of the nation he loved.

Dave Eggers scored a worldwide phenomenon with this memoir that topped national best-seller lists and has since become a staple for summer reading and book clubs. A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers hererecounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents’ unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill...

Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties, complete, unabridged and read by the author. Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold.