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It’s been said that the past is another country. Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday takes readers into several such countries. This book has been called the most famous work about the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary (which Zweig calls “the world of security”) in the last decades before its collapse in the First World War.

»Eine Formalie in Kiew« ist die Geschichte einer Familie, die einst voller Hoffnung in die Fremde zog, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen, und am Ende ohne jede Heimat dasteht. Erzählt mit dem bittersüßen Humor eines Sohnes, der stoisch versucht, Deutscher zu werden. Dmitrij Kapitelman kann besser sächseln als die Beamtin, bei der er den deutschen Pass beantragt.

Both in her novels and her memoirs, Daphne du Maurier revealed an ardent desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries she kept between 1920 and 1932, du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her...

Rebecca was one of Daphne du Maurier's greatest bestsellers. It has been read all around the world, and in many different languages. The book has been adapted for the theater, film, television, and even opera. Now Daphne du Maurier reveals how it came to be written: its origins, its development...

Daphne du Maurier explores the troubled life of Branwell Brontë, delving into his artistic ambitions, self-destructive habits, and the psychological and familial pressures that led to his downfall. "Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency which gives such...

An elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragments, both real and invented, forming a portrait of a creative life, from the life of the Pulitzer Prize finalist for Same Bed Different Dreams In 1998, Ed Park wrote a memoir and saved it to the vanishing technology of the floppy disk...

A heartfelt and stirring memoir of Author Aaron Ryan's journey from unworthiness to worthiness through the redeeming love of a woman who never gave up hoping. Listen to Author Aaron Ryan's memoir detailing early abuse and shattered dreams, recovery, his fierce devotion to his business, and the captivating and patient love of a woman who — if he would just give both of them a chance — would prove that he was worthy, after all.

An educational podcast for children in which we travel to early 20th-century Mexico to meet Frida Kahlo. Frida was a woman with a rebellious spirit who, despite suffering from polio and a serious bus accident, never gave up. Thanks to a mirror placed above her bed and a special easel, she began to paint self-portraits, capturing her emotions and demonstrating that creativity can heal the soul.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Anteckningar från ett liv i och omkring måleriet. Om skapande, tvivel, familj och de drömmar som vägrar ge upp. En dagbok i gränslandet mellan verklighet och fiktion...

In this book, award-winning design journalist, Tom May, examines the achievements of 50 of history's greatest designers: the men and women who have influenced the way we live by creating everything from furniture to household goods and decorative objects to cars and motorbikes, airplanes, signage, sports equipment and much more.

Clyo Mendoza hace un ensayo reflexionando sobre los motivos por los que no volvería a vivir la adolescencia: la violencia machista feroz, en el centro de un sistema impune, puede convertir a esa etapa de la vida, supuestamente amena, en un territorio del que las víctimas quieren escapar. Este ensayo forma parte de la antología Las formas de la memoria, que conmemora el vigésimo aniversario de Almadía y reivindicla idea de que una editorial es un punto de encuentro.

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America. From The Nation magazine columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Zirin...

Klaus-Peter Wolf gibt spannende Einblicke in die Entstehungs- und Erfolgsgeschichte seiner Ostfriesen-Krimireihe. Im Café ten Cate sitzend schrieb Klaus-Peter Wolf mit einem Kolbenfüller den ersten Satz in eine dicke, schwarzrote Kladde. Und es sollte nicht der letzte bleiben. Über 30 Ostfriesenkrimis sollten folgen.

As we go through life we weather many storms. We lose family members, close friends and animals we love, and they take with them the warmth and shared memories of many years. With the loss of her favourite tree that had enriched her life for decades, she began to ask herself: are there ways to make later life rich and interesting?

في «الكاتبات والوحدة» تتحدث نورا ناجي عن عشر كاتبات، عشن حياة قاسية، إذ لم يمنحهن المجتمع فرصة للتنفس والانطلاق، وحاصرهن بكثير من الخطوط الحادة. وكي تصل إلى أعماق...

‘Michael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. The Broken King is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. It’s genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical...

Bloomsbury presents The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain, edited by Kimberly Witherspoon with a Foreword by Patrick Radden Keefe. Read by Anthony Bourdain, Kim Witherspoon, Dion Graham, Kaleo Griffith, David Colacci and Chris Patton. 'This compilation shows he was so much more than...

'Memorias de ultratumba de un Rey de la poesía': así define Ian Gibson este audiolibro inspirado en la vida del poeta nicaragüense. Podremos recorrer algunas de las experiencias vitales que conformaron la breve, pero intensa vida, del máximo representante del modernismo literario en lengua...

„Granica sokoła" to częściowo uzupełnienie, a częściowo kontynuacja „Nawiało nam burzę". Abramow-Newerly przedstawia ostatnie lata istnienia Kresów II Rzeczypospolitej. Opisuje z humorem i swadą barwny obraz życia w Hadyńkowcach i Czortkowie, poczynając od najstarszych dziejów rodu Wawrów, czyli ucieczki Fiodora Ławrowa przez Zbrucz pod koniec XVIII wieku. Relacjonuje też szczegółowo kluczowe dla tych ziem wydarzenia: obronę granicy na Zbruczu w 1939 r.

Johannes Vermeer has fascinated a growing number of 21st century viewers with his most intimate depictions of the nature of human existence. The formal perfection of his compositions and the precision of his painting technique, expressing his fantastic narrative ability and accurate realism, have become a quintessential characteristic of the Dutch Golden Age of painting. Nearly 400 years later, Vermeer is still celebrated for his incomparable sense of timelessness, human dignity and unprecedented talent for creating luminosity and purity of color in his scenes.