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Et si Deborah Levy nous ouvrait les portes de sa bibliothèque personnelle ? Si elle nous emmenait à la découverte des artistes qui l'inspirent et la secouent ?

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age. By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels...

The War of the Worlds is the classic alien-invasion novel: Martian cylinders fall down upon a complacent Victorian England, unleashing towering tripods, heat rays and poisonous black smoke. An unnamed writer is among the humans trying to flee, and it is through his eyes that we see the shattering of ordinary life by beings with advanced intelligence and weaponry. The novel's terror is timeless. Its depiction of technological shock, mass panic and sudden ruin feels both fantastical and unnervingly possible. It exposes the arrogance of empire and the horror of facing a power we don't understand.

At festive gatherings celebrating summer's peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and calendars, another, richer kind of time might exist. As she suffered from grief and burnout, Tamás sought a deeper connection to the movement of the seasons through an immersion in old folkways. She set out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions.

Il 4 gennaio 1960, la Facel Vega guidata dal celebre editore Michel Gallimard sfreccia lungo una strada della Borgogna e va a schiantarsi contro un platano. Sul sedile del passeggero, Albert Camus, che solo tre anni prima era stato insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, muore sul colpo.

"Remembering Roots highlights the indomitability of the human spirit; and reminds us that, like our ancestors, as long as we continue to breathe, there's hope."—LEVAR BURTON, award-winning actor, director, author, and original cast member of Roots Discover how the book and TV miniseries Roots...

Joanne "Jo" Rowling is known to readers the world over as J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling book series of all time. The creator of Harry Potter was once a single mother writing in cafés and living on welfare, who experienced a fairytale-like rise from poverty and obscurity to becoming one of the richest and most influential women on the planet. And following her controversial stances in the cultural and political war over transgender rights, Rowling found herself a pariah in circles that had previously adored her.

El París de Hemingway era una fiesta... y el de Zoé Valdés una rumba. Numerosos personajes célebres de la farándula literaria y artística de los años ochenta —Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Alberto Moravia, Cioran, Dora Maar— se dan cita en este libro bullicioso, turbador y revelador, donde se suceden episodios de toda índole. En las páginas de «París era una rumba», Zoé Valdés habla de la capital francesa que descubrió en 1983, cuando tenía tan solo 23 años.

Bloomsbury presents My Salinger Year, written and read by Joanna Rakoff. The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world – now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, My New York...

O livro "Tratados da Terra e Gente do Brasil", de Fernão Cardim, é sem dúvida um dos grandes clássicos da literatura colonial brasileira. O autor, viajante, tem um olhar arguto sobre aquilo que vê, e bem transfere sua visão para estas páginas de redação pitoresca, das quais foram aqui selecionados os textos "Do modo que este gentio tem acerca de matar e comer carne humana" e "Das cerimônias que se fazem ao novo cavaleiro".

Fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem Tod fordern Ingeborg Bachmanns Briefe eine neue Perspektive auf Leben und Werk dieser Autorin, die uns heute aktueller denn je erscheint. Andrea Stolls Biografie beleuchtet das unübersehbare Spektrum Bachmannscher Ambivalenzen von seinen Ursprüngen her und führt uns vor Augen, wie diese ikonische Dichterin in eine Spirale von Selbstinszenierung und Selbstzerstörung geraten konnte.

A quasi-memoir written from the perspective of Gertrude Stein's lifelong partner, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a lively, playful account of the literary giant's vibrant life in the early twentieth century. Captivating and characteristically self-assured, this glittering memoir recounts Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas's artistically rich life in Paris.

Extraídas do livro "Minha formação", as crônicas "A influência inglesa" e "O espírito inglês", de Joaquim Nabuco, trazem para o leitor de hoje vislumbres tanto do pensamento do célebre abolicionista quanto de sua autobiografia.

Bloomsbury presents Publishing by Gail Godwin, read by Rosemary Benson Publishing is a personal story of a writer’s hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A student at...

Martin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known. "...[Narrator Alex] Jennings's portrayals of Lionel and his circle are tremendous fun." —...

Former CIA operations officer Robert Marro Jr. pens a gripping memoir about his close friend and confidante, the famed enigmatic exorcist, bestselling author, and Vatican insider Malachi Martin. In this riveting firsthand account, Robert Marro Jr. pulls back the veil on the life of the...

"Onde procede essa impressão universal de Londres, seguida dessa sensação de finalidade, que talvez seja toda subjetiva?" Extraída do livro "Minha formação", a crônica "Londres", de Joaquim Nabuco, traz para o leitor de hoje vislumbres tanto do pensamento do célebre abolicionista quanto de sua autobiografia.

«الزّير سالم»، يتناول الكتاب سيرة عدي بن ربيعة التغلبي، الملقّب ب الزّير، أبو ليلى المهلهل. هو أحد فرسان قبيلة تغلب، التي كانت شمال شرق الجزيرة العربيّة، أطراف العراق والشّام. شاعرٌ، وأحد أبطال العرب في الجاهليّة.

هل سمعتم بالقصة التي ولدت بموت كاتبها؟ دائمًا ما تبدأ القصص بالعكس، تبدأ من الكاتب، فمهما حاول نسمع صوته يروي لنا قصته أكان على لسان راوٍ عليم، فنسمع صوت الكاتب في عقولنا غالبًا، أو أن يختار سرد أحداث حكايته على لسان شخصياته، لتكون تلك الشخوص أداته فيتحكم بها لنسمع صوته عبرها. هكذا جرت العادة؛ إلا في سلسلة روايات ميلينيوم أو بالأجزاء الثلاثة الأولى؛ حيث أن المؤلف "رب الرواية" قد مات قبل أن تخرج الشخصيات إلى العالم الحقيقي.

Bloomsbury presents Talking to Writers: The Craft of Non-Fiction by Dean Nelson, read by Bob Souer and featuring the original interview recordings between Dean Nelson and a collection of famous authors. Am I a writer? Where should I get ideas? Is my writing any good? How did my favorite authors...