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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.

See the difference, read Maya Angelou in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface This wise book is the wonderful continuation of the bestselling Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now. Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya...

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), Sohn einer alten englischen Adelsfamilie, britischer Premier und Nobelpreisträger für Literatur, hat schon viele Historiker beschäftigt. Churchill, der sich bereits in den dreißiger Jahren zur stärksten politischen Persönlichkeit Englands entwickelte, wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg eine Art lebendiges Symbol des nationalen Widerstands und einer der großen Heroen der Anti-Hitler-Koalition. Seit 1946 gab er dank seines internationalen Ansehens wichtige Impulse zur Schaffung des Nordatlantik-Paktes und zur wirtschaftlichen und politischen Einigung Europas.

These short, vivid biographies offer quick insights, big ideas, and timeless inspiration. Explore the stories behind the storytellers: from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Hemingway, Emily Dickinson to Franz Kafka, Goethe to Jack Kerouac, William Shakespeare to Arthur Miller, Charles Dickens to Toni Morrison. Short and sharp audio biographies for lovers of words and worlds.

Primorosa biografia de uma das personalidades mais contraditórias da literatura brasileira. Escrito no estilo cinematográfico de Lira Neto e amparado em farto acervo documental, este livro apresenta Oswald de Andrade em sua verve sarcástica, lírica e demolidora. Neste mergulho radical na trajetória de Oswald de Andrade, Lira Neto explora as muitas contradições da personalidade do polêmico biografado: blasfemo e temente a Deus, burguês e comunista, apaixonado e adúltero.

O novo agora é a brilhante sequência de Feliz ano velho e Ainda estou aqui. Nele, Marcelo Rubens Paiva intercala memórias e acontecimentos familiares para construir uma narrativa envolvente e íntima sobre a paternidade. E recria, com sensibilidade, um momento desafiador da história recente do país.Escritor, pai depois dos cinquenta anos, cadeirante e considerado inimigo pelo governo vigente: assim Marcelo Rubens Paiva se descreve, neste livro franco e emocional, sequência autobiográfica de Feliz ano velho e Ainda estou aqui...

شاعر ماجن وشعر جميل ونفس متمردة.. يصوغ العقاد سيرة أبي نواس، الشاعر الذي تفرّد في عصره، شاعراً ومفكراً، محطّماً قيود المجتمع، ومُحلّقاً في عالم الشعر.

رحلة فكرية عميقة لحياة الفيلسوف والشاعر الأكثر جدلًا وغموضًا أبي العلاء المعري، بقلم العقاد الساحر وثقافته الواسعة جسد عبقرية هذا المفكر الاستثنائي الذي سبق زمانه بتساؤلاته حول الحياة والموت، والإيمان والعقل، والخير والشر. فقدم صورة صادقة ومثيرة لروح المعري المتمردة، ليتركما مندهشين متسائلين عن السر العبقرية والجمال!

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.

هذا أوّل كتابٍ أُفرد للمرأة في حياة "طه حسين" وأدبه. فبرغم ما عرف عنه من أنّه كان نصير المرأة والدّاعي قولاً وفعلاً إلى تعليمها، إلّا أنّنا لا نجد سوى بحثٍ يتيمٍ هنا أو مقالٍ صحفيٍّ هناك عن علاقة "طه حسين بالمرأة". تتبّعتُ حضور المرأة في حياته سواءً أكان حضوراً طاغياً مثل زوجته سوزان، أم حضوراً خافتاً مثل أمّه وابنته، وعرضتُ لنساءٍ كان لهنّ تماسٌّ معه مثل حبّه الأول وتلميذته وحتى اللواتي اختلفن معه. واستقصيتُ النماذجَ النسوية التي وردت في أدبه من نساءٍ خاضعاتٍ ضعيفاتٍ إلى نساءٍ متعلّماتٍ متحدّيات، ومن مشرقيّاتٍ مستسلماتٍ لأقدارهنّ إلى أوروبيّاتٍ متحرّرات متحضّرات، في صوَرٍ متعدّدة الجوانب للمرأة عند "طه حسين"، عساها تعطي فكرةً لا أزعمها شاملةً، ولكنها كافيةٌ لتوضيح دور المرأة في حياته وانعكاس هذا الدّور على أدبه.

إنه عملاق الأدب الفرنسي في القرن العشرين؛ وما زلنا الآن نعيش زمن بروست، كما قالت جوليا كريستيفا. ويرى كثير من النقّاد العالميين أن "السباعية هي أفضل إنجاز أدبي في عصرنا" (فالتر بنيامين)، لأنها أصبحت من أعمدة الثورة الروائية الآن. وفيها أراد بروست أن يفهمنا معنى الحياة والموت والذاكرة والزمن: تبدأ الجملة الأولى فيها بكلمة "زمن" وتنتهي بها. وبناها على غرار الكاتدرائيات القروسطية. لقد كتبها بروست بحيث تكون مفتوحة على الفلسفة والألسنية والسيميائية والتحليل النفسي، وأتت جملها شبيهة بجمل الكاتب اللاتيني شيشرون الفضفاضة sententia. وتُعَدّ السباعية أطول رواية في القرن العشرين (حوالي 4000 صفحة). وأنجزها بروست خلال 16 سنة، وكأن ساعة موته أرجئت حتى ينهيها، وتم له ذلك. يقول شيخ البروستيين في العالم، جان إيف تادييه: الإنكليز عندهم "شكسبير"، والألمان "غوته"، والروس "دستويفسكي"، والإيطاليون "دانتي"، والإسبان "ثيربانتيس". أما الفرنسيون فعندهم "بروست".

In interviews ranging from 1972 to 1989, Roald Dahl talks about writing for children, his medical inventions to aid his ailing son and wife (the actress Patricia Neal) when they were seriously ill and writing his short stories. He also covers his school days, military service, writing for films (including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and the link between cruelty and laughter.

Known for her best-selling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C. S. Lewis. Providing a blueprint for bridge-building in contemporary, polarizing contexts, Subversive shows how Sayers used edgy, often hilarious metaphors to ignite new ways to think about Christianity, shocking people into seeing the truth of ancient doctrine in a new light.

Buchanan’s first fiction book, Insatiable, was just about to release at the time of recording this interview, and we discussed her fearless command of the sexually explicit, the books and authors she loves reading, how her Catholic upbringing affected her writing, and being self-absorbed in your 20s.

Picoult, born in New York, has published more than 26 novels and short stories, not including the several issues of Wonder Woman she wrote for DC Comics. Picoult has 40 million copies of her books in print, and they have been translated into 34 languages - to say she is a prolific writer would be an understatement, and she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost HUGO AWARD FINALIST EISNER AWARD NOMINEE “True Believer is in every imaginable way the biography that Stan Lee deserves—ambitious...

Colfer, born and raised in Wexford, Ireland, alongside his four brothers, earned a degree from Dublin University before returning to Wexford to work as a teacher. After releasing some children's books that went down well in Ireland, he wrote the first draft of Artemis Fowl, and, on reading it, his family demanded he get himself an agent. Artemis Fowl allowed Colfer to leave his teaching job to write full time, and he has never looked back, gaining international recognition and regularly appearing in best seller lists.

Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Christopher Paolini, author of the Inhertiance Cycle series and the youngest author of a best-selling series for The New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly. Paolini's newest book has been released: The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, from Tales of Alagaësia. Eragon has departed the world of Alagaësia in order to create a new home to train the next generation of dragon riders, to construct a dragonhold and protect dragon eggs; through these three original stories, we also see more of Eragon's personal journey.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Alex Michaelides, a Hollywood screenwriter, who has released his debut thriller The Silent Patient. We spoke about his novel in which a devoted and loving wife suddenly shoots her husband five times, and never speaks another word. We also spoke about his university studies, how they have influenced his writing, his amazing career so far, and his upcoming plans.