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Across six revealing lectures, Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson will introduce you to one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and divisive writers in Flannery O’Connor and the Scandal of Faith. Beginning with an overview of her brief but remarkable life, Professor Wilson will then take you through an exploration of themes in O’Connor’s work and the hallmarks of her literary style. You’ll get a clearer picture of O’Connor’s historical and geographical context while digging into how her stories can transcend time and place.

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.

For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...

One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond's world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn't entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming's background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world's most famous spy.

"Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" by Robert Graves is a seminal work that vividly captures the harrowing experiences of a young British officer during World War I.

In the six lectures of The Great Gatsby at 100, you will join Sheila Liming of Champlain College to revisit the context and culture of the Roaring ‘20s, which inspired the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and his disastrous pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. As you’ll discover, while Gatsby is framed as a love story, it’s also a story of the American experience, revealing the unspoken rules of wealth and class and the false promises of self-made success in a world of Old Money privilege.

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed.

Erich Kästner, Dichter, Romancier und Kinderbuchautor: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

When Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker’s art critic and the leading art writer of his generation, published his eye-opening autobiographical essay, “The Art of Dying,” in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and had been given six months of life. Fortunately, his treatment was showing some improvement, and so, he wrote, “These extra months are a luxury that I hope to have put to good use.”

Anthony Horowitz is a best-selling author and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. He's known for such works as his Alex Rider and Diamond Brothers series, the specially-commissioned James Bond and Sherlock Holmes books and television series Foyle's War. Anthony joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to talk about his latest novel, Magpie Murders.

THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE BBC'S MISS AUSTEN: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY JANE AUSTEN LOVER Readers LOVE Jane Austen at Home: 'A "tour de force" which should be in the reading list of anyone who has either read the books or watched the film adaptations.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book is a...

THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a...

In her exquisite memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change. After leaving evangelical Christianity in her early twenties, kicking an...

One of our most brilliant biographers illuminates the life and work of one of the most fascinating, iconic English novelists of our time “Hermione Lee is a literary life-writer par excellence.” —The Atlantic Anita Brookner is famous for her quiet, incisive studies of solitary and...

A good mystery isn’t just entertainment; it’s a tonic for life’s hardships Like so many of us living through the upheaval of the last five years, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling writer Cathy Rentzenbrink found that to keep her spirits up, she needed a project to throw herself...

Entre la ficción y el testimonio, el ensayo y la memoria, este libro da cuenta de algunas facetas de la vida de varios escritores a quienes Gonzalo Celorio tuvo la oportunidad de conocer y de tratar: Arreola, Cortázar, Rulfo, Fuentes, Monterroso, García Márquez, Loynaz, Eco.

Pilote de l’Aéropostale, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry livre avec Terre des hommes un témoignage profondément humain, à la frontière du récit d’aventure, de la méditation philosophique et de l’hommage à la fraternité.

مذكرات الأديب الألماني ماكس مولر بترجمة مي زيادة البليغة التي لا تخلو من صور الجمال ورشاقة اللغة، الكتاب مفعم بالعواطف والمشاعر الدقيقة التي لا تخرج سوى من عقل مولر وقلم مي.

يَعرضُ مصطفى عبد الرازق في هذه الدراسة لأحد أئمة النهضة الشعرية . في العصرين الفاطمي والأيُّوبي؛ وهو «البهاء زهير»، صاحب الحِسِّ المُرهَف، والأسلوب المصري الخالص في كتابة الشعر وانتقاء الموضوعات.

«أحمد شوقي»؛ اسمٌ لا يحتاج إلى تعريفنا المتواضع؛ فهو قامة أدبية كبرى لسنا بصدد التعريف بها، إنما نعرض لصداقةٍ خاصة جمعت بينه وبين الأديب القدير «شكيب أرسلان».