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With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Edward Hopper, Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international art. You'll learn that Michelangelo's body odor was so bad, his assistants couldn't stand working for him; that Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube; and Georgia O'Keeffe loved to paint in the nude. This is one art history lesson you'll never forget!

Die Welt rund um Harry Potter und die Phantastischen Tierwesen steckt voller unglaublicher Figuren, aber keine ist so bekannt und zugleich geheimnisvoll wie Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. Doch selbst die magische Gesellschaft ist sich uneinig, wer der Schulleiter von Hogwarts wirklich...

Who built the Empire State Building? Astonishingly, no list of workmen on this historic landmark was ever compiled. While the names of the owners, architects, and contractors are well known, and Lewis Hine's legendary portraits left us indelible images of the workers, their identities—the last generation of workmen still practicing these time-honored trades, have not been identified until author Glenn Kurtz unearthed their individual stories for this book.

This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society...

This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one of the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amonst the county gentry of Georgian England. Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends.

It all started with a book that made me curious. When rare books dealer Rebecca Romney found an emerald clothbound edition of Evelina by Frances Burney, she was happy to discover that she'd stumbled across a novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite authors. Inspired by the connection between the...

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

Von der gefeierten Autorin von Das Lieben danach: Wie gut kennen wir unsere eigenen Eltern – ihre Leidenschaften und Abgründe? Tief berührend, weitreichend: Helene Bracht, die erst mit fast siebzig Jahren zum Schreiben fand, erzählt von uns allen, indem sie von ihrer Mutter erzählt. Voller Wucht und Schönheit beschreibt sie den Sommer des Abschieds von ihrer alten Mutter Irma.

Norteña. Memorias del comienzo es la historia de un enamoramiento: el de Julieta Venegas con la música. Criada en Tijuana, en ese paisaje singular donde el desierto se encuentra con el mar y una frontera divide —o junta— dos países y dos formas de vida, Julieta recorre los primeros años que la formaron como artista: cómo aprendió a escuchar, cómo aprendió a tocar, cómo fue encontrando su propio sonido. La música llega primero como herencia familiar, como alegría compartida, como el idioma que su familia ya hablaba antes que ella.

Die Romantik war eine Epoche der Gefühle, der Fantasie und des Aufbruchs. In diesem Hörbuch begegnen Sie 15 außergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten aus Literatur, Musik, Kunst, die das Denken und Fühlen ihrer Zeit geprägt haben.

Trotz seines kurzen Lebens prägte Georg Büchner (1813-1837) die deutsche Literatur nachhaltig. Seine einzige Erzählung "Lenz" erzählt in eindringlichen Natur- und Lebensbildern von dem sich verschlechternden psychischen Zustand des Schriftstellers Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751-1792). Während eines Aufenthaltes bei Pfarrer Oberlin im Bergdorf Waldbach verschlimmern sich Lenz' Angstzustände, depressive Schübe und Entfremdungsgefühle.

The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time. Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic...

In 1917, nine years after the publication of "Anne of Green Gables", the editor of the Canadian magazine "Everywoman's World" asked the book's now famous author to write the story of her career. Reluctant at first, Lucy Maud Montgomery agreed to write six installments—one per month—and named her column "The Alpine Path", taking the title from a favorite inspirational verse: The Alpine path, so hard, so steep, That leads to heights sublime.

Investigative journalist Mary Neiswender shares for the first time what it was like to be the only reporter Charles Manson communicated with during his famous 1970 murder trial.

Schießereien, Auftragsmorde, organisierte Kriminalität: Die Rockerszene ist auch in Deutschland aggressiver und gefährlicher geworden. Was in den Sechzigerjahren mit einzelnen Chartern der Hells Angels begann, ist längst eine eigene Welt aus rivalisierenden Gruppen, die nicht nur im Dauerkonflikt mit der Polizei und den Behörden stehen, sondern auch mit der Konkurrenz. Ende der Neunziger veränderte sich die Szene stark.

Salvador Dalí, born in Figueres, Spain, was one of the twentieth century’s most important painters. He showed artistic talent from an early age, and his parents were determined to nurture that gift. Enrolled in three different art schools, Dalí proved himself a brilliant and technically precise painter as well as an impossible student. He was expelled twice and made a point of telling his examiners they were incompetent to judge him. He was, in other words, exactly the kind of brash artist the modern world was waiting for.

En aquel fatídico noviembre de 1983, un vuelo de París a Bogotá con escala en Madrid se precipitó, cobrándose la vida de casi doscientas personas. Esta tragedia, lejos de ser un incidente aislado, fue el sombrío epílogo de una década donde la precaria modernización de la España de los setenta y ochenta convirtió sus cielos en una trampa mortal para más de 1700 pasajeros.

Con motivo del centenario, publicamos la biografía coral del inmortal novelista y periodista, adalid del famoseo y azote de la aristocracia mundial:...

In the six lectures of Margaret Atwood: A Modern Myth-Maker, Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black will take you on a thorough exploration of Atwood’s most celebrated novel to examine the many ways this book has transcended its dystopian roots to become something more than a tale of, “What if?” Over the course of these lectures, you’ll examine the social, political, cultural, and spiritual impact of the novel—and of Atwood herself—as you dive deep into the text to unravel its themes and inspirations.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë—the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist—is a true classic. It transports us with a deft hand straight into 19th-century Haworth, Yorkshire and crafts an extensive account of Brontë’s life, quoting throughout from letters she sent and received. From her challenging, isolated childhood to her death shortly before the age of 39, newly married and pregnant, the enigmatic author of Jane Eyre is portrayed with enormous care.