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On frosty nights, as he sits by a flickering fire, Michael Harding withdraws into the stillness of winter and begins to reckon with age and death. As stories emerge from the shadows, we meet a young boy whose arrival brings hope, but whose journey will know winter's path. November is a rainstorm...

Hun opsøger de konkrete veje og gader, der har været vigtige i Ditlevsens liv og forfatterskab, fra "barndommens gade" på Vesterbro til den sidste adresse på H. C. Andersens Boulevard. Og hun beskriver de veje, Ditlevsen valgte for at komme ud af barndommens arbejdermiljø og ind i den verden, hvor hun kunne forfølge sin dybeste passion: at skrive. Det sidste årti har en ny generation af danskere genopdaget og genlæst Tove Ditlevsens værker, og forfatterskabet har fået et internationalt gennembrud.

В XI веке придворная дама Мурасаки Сикибу написала первый в мире сюжетный роман «Гэндзи моногатари» , ставший самым популярным произведением в истории японской литературы. Тысячу лет спустя, на рубеже XXI века, американка Лиза Дэлби придумала этой удивительной писательнице и поэтессе личную биографию. По сюжету романа госпожа Мурасаки получает приглашение на службу к императорскому двору благодаря таланту рассказчицы.

The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us. Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American...

Pendant plusieurs mois, Didion consigne leurs échanges avec une minutie remarquable. Les premières séances abordent des thèmes tels que l'alcoolisme, l'adoption, la dépression, l'anxiété, la culpabilité, et la relation complexe, parfois douloureuse, qu'elle entretient avec sa fille, Quintana.

Love Death + Explosives: Thomas Pynchon’s Polipsychology is an essay that addresses the postmodern angle in the reclusive titular author’s writing, challenging listeners to decontextualize the interpretive lens for the literal.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), meist nur H. P. Lovecraft, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Autoren der Horrorliteratur im 20. Jahrhundert und wird häufig mit dem Begriff „kosmischer Horror" in Verbindung gebracht, der Angst vor dem Unbekannten und der Unermesslichkeit des Universums thematisiert. Lovecraft wurde in eine wohlhabende Familie geboren, doch sein Leben war von Tragödien geprägt.

The inspiring true story of writer Margie Goldsmith and her solutions for anyone who has ever felt "less than." Margie Goldsmith is a role model for generations of women to live fearlessly. Having survived a dysfunctional childhood, Goldsmith fled to Paris after college, living a glamorous life and marrying a blacklisted film director. Returning to the US, she divorced and established a successful film/video production company and married a NYC lawyer to celebrities.

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.

Le matin du 24 octobre 1941, au château d'Escoire, le père d'Henri Girard, sa tante et leur servante sont retrouvés morts, atrocement massacrés à la serpe. Seul survivant, Henri est inculpé, emprisonné dix-neuf mois dans l'un des cachots les plus insalubres de France et promis à la guillotine. L'énigme du triple assassinat d'Escoire, tant de fois revisitée, ne fut jamais élucidée.

George Orwell wasn’t just the author of 1984 and Animal Farm — He was the man who saw it all coming. From the jungles of British Burma to the slums of Paris, from the trenches of the Spanish Civil War to the propaganda halls of the BBC, Orwell lived through the machinery of power — and spent every ounce of his voice trying to tear it apart. Orwell: The Man Who Warned Us is a literary biography that doesn’t just tell you who Orwell was — it shows you how he became one of the most dangerous writers in history.

L'ultimo erede di una delle dinastie più prestigiose dell'aristocrazia italiana è oggi il piccolo Maffeo. Suo padre, il principe Urbano Riario Sforza Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, rievoca per lui in questo libro le avvincenti vicende famigliari attraverso quattro secoli di sfide, passioni, trionfi e cadute. Dal primo Maffeo destinato a diventare Papa Urbano VIII, uomo di potere e di cultura, che fece della bellezza una missione, a Cornelia Costanza che nel Settecento fu la promotrice del primo rococò italiano.

Dedicado às netas Lucia e Margarida, este foi o último dos livros de Lygia Fagundes Telles a ser escrito pela autora antes de sua morte, em 2022. Conspiração de nuvens é também uma de suas obras mais pessoais, com histórias de família e reflexões próprias sobre literatura, política e a vida, numa seleta de crônicas, contos e memórias. Lançado em 2007, Conspiração de nuvens foi o último livro escrito por Lygia Fagundes Telles, autora de obras-primas como As meninas e Ciranda de pedra. Composto sob o impacto da morte de seu único filho.

Nun nimmt uns Ruth Shaw erneut mit auf eine Reise durch ihr erfülltes, aber nicht immer einfaches Leben – und in ihre winzige Bücherwelt ganz weit im Süden Neuseelands. Aus dem kleinen Buchladen sind inzwischen drei geworden. Abwechselnd erzählt Ruth von den herzergreifenden Begegnungen in ihrer kleinen Bücherwelt und davon, wie es in ihrem Leben weiterging, nachdem sie ihren Sohn und ihre große Liebe Lance wiedergefunden hatte.

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.

Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing.

En plus de trente ans, Kentaro Miura a développé une histoire qui a fait, à chaque page, frémir de peur et de plaisir grâce à ses thèmes, sa profondeur et sa maîtrise. Berserk n'est pas seulement un récit d'aventure, c'est une œuvre artistique, philosophique, symbolique, une ode aux ténèbres de la nature humaine, une déclaration d'amour à l'imaginaire.

A few days before Thanksgiving 1994, Jeffrey Eugenides’s father, Gus, was piloting a small plane when it crashed in Daytona Beach, Florida. The circumstances surrounding his death added to the mystery of a life that defied expectations, but left many questions unanswered. Now, more than 30 years later, Eugenides tells the story of how his father, a first-generation American, rose from Detroit’s east side to find financial success as a mortgage banker and real estate developer–only to lose it all.

Published in 1885, Dickens As I Knew Him recounts Dolby's time managing Dickens's reading tours across Britain and America from 1866 to 1870. Dolby's narrative offers a firsthand account of these tours, illustrating Dickens's dedication to both his craft and his readers. From the extensive travelling, logistical challenges of the events and the enthusiastic audiences Dickens received it paints a vivid portrait of the literary giant's career in his later years, providing valuable insights into the man behind some of the most popular works of the century.