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Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.
Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was.
This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through...
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Thinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling adventures. However, fully understanding this outsized international author means returning to his place of birth. Hidden Hemingway presents highlights from the extraordinary collection of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. Thoroughly researched, and illustrated with more than 300 color images, this impressive volume...
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Written over an eleven-year period, these letters between Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein chronicle a love affair that was by turns stormy, tender, bitter, and contrite. When Wolfe met Mrs. Bernstein shortly before his twenty-fifth birthday in 1925, she was forty-four, married, and at the pinnacle of a successful career as a stage and costume designer. Bernstein gave the young writer not only the unstinting love of an experienced older woman but...
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In this 1879 addition to the English Men of Letters series, Pattison explores the life and work of John Milton, the author of the definitive Paradise Lost. The volume touches on Milton's pamphlets, famous works of poetry, and even his religious beliefs. Pattison judges only Shakespeare to be Milton's superior in the realm of English poetry.
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"Co-Winner of the 2006 Etkind Prize, Best Book by a Western Scholar on Russian Literature/Culture, European University at St. Petersburg" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002" Joseph Frank is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. Previous volumes of Dostoevsky have received the National Book Critics...
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Taylor Caldwell Reback the international writer of 40 books who fell, in her later years, into the talons of the money hunters. The vulpine valentinos turned the Reback family into a Greek tragedy that was suited to be played on the ancient theater of Epidavros. Just as Taylor Caldwell wrote compelling drama in her books she inserts drama into every aspect of her life with mischeveous whimsy. Her life as a wife, mother, author and lover Taylor lived...
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The most intriguing puzzle in the world is the journey of human life. The author lets readers solve many puzzles for themselves by introducing different characters in the process of navigating through entertaining and captivating plots. These stories, gracefully illustrated by the author, make it clear that virtues, vices, sadness, and silliness are universal features regardless of language, geography, and the century during which one lives.
These...
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This notorious autobiography had the distinction of being banned in both the United States and England after its publication in 1963. Yet Harris's memoir is more than just sex: it is a mesmerizing travelogue through a bygone era, related by a brilliant raconteur who knew everybody worth knowing.
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Jane Austen's novels are classics. They have never been out of print, and have continuously been turned into countless movies and TV series, yet her works still remain largely misunderstood. On their surface, Austen's novels all involve characters from provincial communities in rural England, far removed geographically and thematically from greater social movements, war, industry, colonization, and imperialism. This impression could not be further...
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Crusat ha escrito un ensayo tan documentado y pasional como el mismo material con el que ha trabajado: arrancando desde una particular historia no académica del arte biográfico, De Quincey, Aubrey, Diógenes Laercio, Boswell, Vidas de vidas traza un mapa complejo y apasionante de una de las tradiciones más subyugantes y originales del siglo xx: la "vida imaginaria". Tomando principalmente la obra de Marcel Schwob, Cristian Crusat logra dejar al...
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I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiography, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed in literature.Drums Under the Windows (1945) sees O'Casey's young (pre-writing) life taking shape amid...
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Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavor to make a new kind of highly collaborative theatre dedicated to the fragile but essential act of "being yourself in a performance situation."
Written, among other things, to celebrate PME-ART's twentieth anniversary, the book begins when Jacob...
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Esta Vida del padre maestro Juan de Ávila escrita por fray Luis de Granada estuvo muy influido por el místico Juan de Ávila, cuya vida aquí se recoge, y ello levantó las sospechas de la Inquisición.
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Aquel solícito padre de familias que a todas las horas del día anda cogiendo obreros para cultivar su viña, jamás deja pasar edad alguna que no despierte algunos muy señalados obreros, que con su trabajo e industria ayuden...
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An original and unique literary tour-de-force, HIS STORY – A Novel Memoir – The Life and Times of Dick O'Toole, is a blend of memoir, faction, fiction, and radical social and political history that is funny, tragic, playful, iconoclastic, and satirical. The revelations are profound, the humor is black, and the style is a breeze. Dick O'Toole is a rogue floundering on the assault course of life. His attempts at making the world a better place and...
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A compelling, and important social and literary document about ten British writers of note: - Brian Aldiss - Paul Bailey - John Berger - Malcolm Bradbury - Dick Davis - John Fowles - Barry Hines, - Donall Mac Amhlaigh - Roger McGough - Peter Vansittart. Why do authors write? What fuels their passion to create? And how do background, childhood, and early experiences shape the way they see the world? Reading this book is like spending time in the company...
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«Si quieres escribir una novela, la primera norma es saber decir no, rechazar las invitaciones.» ¿Por qué aceptar entonces la propuesta de pasar una noche en el museo Punta della Dogana?
A través del arte sutil de la digresión en la noche veneciana, Leila Slimani se adentra en el proceso creativo de su escritura, aborda los problemas de identidad y del pasado colonial, de moverse entre dos mundos, Oriente y Occidente, donde ella navega y se...
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William Donaldson reveals all in a frank and often scurrilous memoir where past and present collide in a hilarious vision of his extraordinary life. The author charts his course from his public school childhood, through production of the celebrated 1960s satire Beyond the Fringe, a riotous lifestyle in the company of pop stars, actors, models, and sundry celebs-sometimes in a brothel in which he lived for a time in Chelsea-literary success and on...
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Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers' fresh insights into Lawrence's life illuminate Lawrence's working-class childhood, his tempestuous marriage, and his death in France after the scandalous publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, revealing Lawrence's complex method of intermingling autobiography and fiction. Through...
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