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In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget.

Le premier tome des Souvenirs d’enfance de Marcel Pagnol est un classique indémodable.
Par la grâce de son écriture, l’auteur nous transporte dans les collines provençales et nous fait partager son émerveillement d’enfant.

Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman...

"Depuis des années, je tourne autour de cet événement de ma vie. Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon entendre par hasard "La javanaise", "J'ai la mémoire qui flanche", n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse."

After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first...

Everyone knows Frank Herbert’s Dune. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert’s eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father’s extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert’s life that would find their way into speculative fiction’s greatest epic.

In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment and narrow escape from execution, his Siberian exile, his gambling addiction, his romantic marriage, and his literary success.

Author and science writer Holly Cave joins us to discuss her latest audiobook, The Memory Chamber. A suspenseful and thought-provoking contribution to speculative fiction, the novel is set in a seemingly utopian world where a heavenly afterlife can be bought, designed and tailored for each individual. In this exclusive interview, Holly talks about contemporary sci-fi and her journey as a writer.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most influential writers and also one of the most complex. He was the essential New Englander, a believer in hard work and simple living, and his personality and writing were tremendously influenced by his Puritan ancestry and the Salem Witch Trials. He obsessed over sin and redemption his entire life. Hawthorne’s unequivocal belief in the dark side of humanity proved to be one of the greatest assets of his writing.

Combining biography, history, and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one. This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. Exploiting a wealth of archival material and interviews with key protagonists, Our Man Down in Havana delves into the story behind and beyond the author's prophetic Cuban tale, focusing on one slice of Greene's manic life: a single novel and its complex history.

Nicholas Sparks has published over 20 books, most of which have been international bestsellers. Many have gone on to be adapted in high-profile films. The adaptation of The Notebook has, of course, left most of us reaching for the tissue box. He visits the Audible Studios to talk about his amazing career, and his latest novel, See Me.

Do you want to learn more about how the great literary detective Sherlock Holmes was born and how Arthur Conan Doyle came to create him, but don’t have time to listen to huge, long biographies? Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of his life. Now fascinating as Sherlock Holmes undoubtedly is, and this journal will certainly take you on a journey of discovery following in the great man’s footsteps, there’s another story here, most certainly worthy of your attention.

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...

La storia di ogni grande donna è la storia delle sue guerre. Quelle di Coco Chanel sono state almeno quattro: due conflitti mondiali, le battaglie sindacali degli anni Venti e Trenta, e la guerra contro i suoi fantasmi. Questa, la più cruenta di tutte, comincia con l'abbandono da parte del padre, prosegue con l'infanzia lontana dalla famiglia, "esiliata" in un convento di suore – che però, conquistato il benessere, sosterrà economicamente – e poi con la perdita di un grande amore, il più grande, e con la rinuncia a una casa vera e propria per trasferirsi al Ritz.

In this revelatory biography of one of Canada's most internationally celebrated writers, Mary Henley Rubio looks far beyond Montgomery's own published journals and draws on years of primary research and interviews, as well as a wealth of previously undiscovered material. The result is an account of a fascinating life that is certain to surprise. This comprehensive account of Montgomery's life, all set in rich social context, has taken its place as the definitive biography of this Canadian literary icon.

"الشاعر الطموح» هي قصة تجمع بين دفتيها مَجْمَعًا نَفِيْسًا للأمثال؛ فهي تروي لنا سيرة أبي الطيب المتنبي، الشاعر المُعذَّب في قطف ثمار الطموح الشعري والنبل الأخلاقي، وتوضح لنا الوشاية التي تعرَّض لها المتنبي من لدُن خصومه، والتي أفضت إلى القطيعة بينه وبين سيف الدولة الحمداني"

سرد متكلف لتاريخ حياة شاب مارس المحاماة، والصحافة، والسياسة، والنيابة عن الأمة، والرحلات والسياحات، والحب وملحقاته من نجاح.. وفشل.. وحلو.. ومر..! ، إن هذه القصة عابرة عن "إعتراف" في بعض نواحيها، وأحداثها، وحوادثها، فلم يشأ صاحب القصة أن يخفي النقائص بل أبرزها درس ًا للناشئين، وعبرة للمبتدئين.

تأملات المازني البديعة في الفن والحياة، يسردها بأسلوبه الفريد!!!..

«سيأتي يومٌ إذا ذُكِرَ فيه الرافعيُّ قالَ الناس: هو الحكمةُ العاليةُ مَصوغةٌ في أجملِ قالبٍ مِنَ البيان.» هذا ما قالَه «مصطفى كامل» في أدبِ «مصطفى صادق الرافعي»؛ إلَّا أنَّه — قبلَ هذا الكتابِ — ظلَّ غريبًا عن أهلِ وطَنِه، لا يُعلَمُ عنه سِوى وجهِ الأديبِ وهَيْبتِه. حمَلَ «محمد سعيد العريان» على عاتقِه همَّ تعريفِنا ﺑ «الرافعي» كصديقٍ حَمِيم، يأخذُنا في رحلةٍ داخلَ حياتِه الخاصة، نشاهِدُه رأْيَ العينِ ونَصْحبُه في طقوسِ كِتابتِه؛ نَصحبُ العاشِقَ المَهمومَ الذي يجِدُ في شِعرِه مُتنفَّسًا لأشْجانِه، والأديبَ الذي تَمنحُك النظرةُ الثاقبةُ في دَواخلِه يَقِينًا بأنَّ أغلبَ خُصوماتِه لم تَتعدَ...

In 1969, Honor Moore was twenty-three, a theater student yearning for love and working for radical change, but studying administration and keeping secret, even from herself, her wish to imagine the world by becoming a poet. There was an older lover, a professor, and, with another man, an unwanted sexual encounter. That spring, she had an abortion. A Termination is the story of the young woman who made that decision, and of how that act of resistance, then shrouded in fear and silence, has reverberated throughout her life since.