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A tribute to a great man, an important and interesting writer, an inspiring teacher, and a friend some will not likely find again. Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper wrote a memorable biography about their pal, C.S. Lewis. "...We have sought to tell his story as best we could, to lay before...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection. A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral...

Воспоминания Федора Васильевича Челнокова (1866–1925) издаются впервые. Рукопись, написанная в Берлине в 1921–1925 гг., рассказывает о купеческих семействах старой Москвы, знакомых автору с рождения. Челноковы, Бахрушины, Третьяковы, Боткины, Алексеевы, Ильины — в поле внимания автора попадают более 350 имен из числа его родственников и друзей. Издание сопровождают фотографии, сделанные братом мемуариста, Сергеем Васильевичем Челноковым (1860–1924).

Come si fa oggi a stare nel mondo? In questo mondo. A trovare un modo, un posto adatto a noi che siamo consapevoli di essere privilegiati ma dobbiamo fare i conti anche coi nostri, di traumi, piccoli o grandi, oltre che con quelli giganteschi di chi è sotto le bombe, di chi è oppresso, povero, svantaggiato. Ci si vergogna a dire che ci si sente soli, ma lo siamo sempre di più. Daria Bignardi lo dice con sincerità, ironia, coraggio. Sente che la solitudine può essere una prigione ma anche un posto da cui ascoltare il battito del cuore del mondo. Il mondo la chiama e lei parte.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own. Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere...

El célebre autor Ta-Nehisi Coates vuelve con un oportuno libro sobre sus viajes a tres lugares en conflicto —Dakar, Carolina del Sur y Palestina— en el que explora cómo las historias que contamos, y las que no, conforman nuestras realidades.

Olivia Laing ha quarantadue anni quando diventa proprietaria per la prima volta di un giardino. È un giardino trascurato da tempo| come sembrano indicare i nodi dei rampicanti che coprono i mattoni rossi| gli alberi da frutto marcescenti e le rose dai colori sbiaditi. Fino a quel momento| la sua aspirazione botanica si era manifestata solo in un sogno ricorrente: una porta che conduce verso un luogo sconosciuto| in cui lei| priva di peso| si ritrova ad abitare un territorio nuovo| ricco di potenzialità.

Part biography and part cultural history, this celebrated book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life as a writer, but also her literary legacy. Award-winning biographer Claire Harman traces the growth of Jane Austen's fame and the changing status of her work, a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising neglect.

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Calling themselves "The Sisterhood," the group would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.

Jesienią 1911 roku w Café Savoy w Pradze Franz Kafka poznaje aktorów żydowskich z Warszawy i ze Lwowa. Remigiusz Grzela odsłona nie tylko relację Kafki z żydowskimi aktorami, ale także przygląda się życiu po życiu słynnego autora Procesu. Kto z nich ocalał?

«Cercate in questo libro cose semplici e modeste: il racconto di tre viaggi in Sicilia», nei primi anni Cinquanta, «e delle cose di laggiú come possono cadere sotto l'occhio aperto di un viaggiatore senza pregiudizi», ci suggeriva l'autore. La forza delle pagine di Carlo Levi è concentrata in un'unica parola: amore. Come scrive Vincenzo Consolo nella sua Prefazione , «l'amore per tutto quanto è umano, acutamente umano, vale a dire debole e doloroso, vale a dire nobile.

« Est-ce que tu me vois, maman ? J'ai deux crédits à la banque, deux enfants que j'étouffe, quatre chats dont deux débiles et une estropiée, des rides en pattes d'araignée autour des yeux et des oignons aux pieds, le même amoureux qui me supporte et tient bon depuis vingt ans, quelle dinguerie, je ne suis ni parfaitement féministe, ni tout à fait écologiste, ni vraiment révoltée, pas encore alcoolique, plus du tout droguée, j'ai un abonnement à la gym, une carte de métro et une autre du Carrefour Market, je ne me fais pas les ongles, ...

New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and speaker Michael Perry delivers real-world lessons on leadership, creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship. Entertaining and fundamentally useful no matter the form of art or business you pursue, Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is a masterclass in identifying unexpected opportunities and concludes with a chapter titled, “The Most Improbable Mentor Move of All.” This witty and insightful book details how unlikely encounters shape creativity, business, and life.

For the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Winnie-the-Pooh," Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne. This program is read by the author. Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear tells the remarkable story of A A Milne, a playwright, a...

Escritas durante el destierro que Napoleón Bonaparte impuso a la autora, estas memorias registran con acuidad, ironía y elegancia los vaivenes sociales, políticos y militares de Europa durante el ascenso y apogeo del emperador francés.

Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882 - 1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals - compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human...

O historiador Capistrano de Abreu traz aqui a biografia do escritor António José da Silva, "o Judeu", com o refinado recurso de deixar o leitor concluir por si mesmo sua dolorosa morte na fogueira, vítima da Inquisição. Nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1705, e imigrou com a família para Portugal, onde se formou em Direito em Coimbra. Denunciado numa primeira vez, foi absolvido, depois de ser torturado. Depois, com base em denúncias falsas, voltou a ser indiciado, dessa vez sem escapatória.

Thomas More is an enduringly fascinating and profoundly controversial figure. A brilliant scholar, his Utopia of 1516 dared to imagine how society might be completely reordered. At the same time, his hatred of the Reformation caused him to advocate, and seek to implement, the death penalty for heretics. A friend and advisor to Henry VIII, More's refusal to support Henry's break with Rome led to his execution in 1535, and the start of a long argument about his legacy.

William Shakespeare didn’t just write plays. He rewrote the code of English itself. This isn’t a textbook. It’s an autopsy. Of the man. The myth. The infection. From Stratford’s dirty streets to the echoing rafters of the Globe, Shakespeare: The Man Who Infected English unpacks how one playwright didn’t just survive history—he rewrote it.