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Perhaps you have heard of Edgar Allan Poe. Perhaps not. Either way, this 19th-century author has received quite some fame for his works and his unique style. His mystery and gruesome horror stories, comedy, and other genres have reached far into the depths of American literature. Edgar Allan Poe had a life, a background worth studying. His death, however, was and still is a mystery by itself. Find out more about this fascinating author, in a time we can hardly understand without knowing more about it.

Charles Dickens is often remembered for his novel, A Christmas Carol. And even though it is a very interesting novel, it wasn’t even his favorite! Charles Dickens had a fascinating life, in an entirely different era and age in world history. To understand what and why he wrote what he did, it will be useful to see his works in the light of his marriage, his financial hardships, his success, his children, his traumas, and his goals. Become acquainted with this genius writer and his true drive that led him to who he became to be.

Jane Austen is well-known for some famous books, among them the popular “Pride and Prejudice.” As an author in the early 1800s, many people may envision pretty dresses and fancy demeanor, but the reality of her life included some hardships that may not be so obvious by reading her novels. In this comprehensive guide, we shed more light on her situation, her road to success, her family life, and the trials she faced in a time when the culture was very different. Let’s slide back the curtain, and reveal the making of a talented, now-famous author!

When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store's new owner. In The Last Bookseller, Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota. 

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cultural life in the 19th century, as well as someone who confronted with unusual determination and bore the burden of being both a woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany.

No stranger to writing, Pattison's newest book is a memoir-meets-self-help title, The Secret to Happy. In it, she bares all with her now trademark honesty, candour and mission towards kindness. We caught up with Vicky Pattison to chat about how she manages her mental health, her break out of both reality TV and her comfort zone, and she told us her most valuable tips from her therapists.  

Selma Lagerlöf hade hunnit bli 33 år när hon debuterade med ”Gösta Berlings Saga”, och efter det levde hon sitt liv som en mycket produktiv författare som skrev flertalet välkända romaner och noveller. Idag räknas Lagerlöf som en av Sveriges främsta författare någonsin. Men vem var hon egentligen? Och vilka uppoffringar tvingades hon att göra för att tillslut bli den första kvinnliga ledamoten i Svenska Akademien? Litteraturvetaren och författaren Vivi Edström skildrar en av våra mest berömda och inflytelserika författares liv genom tiderna.

Den 11. september 1973 væltede det chilenske militær Salvador Allendes demokratisk valgte regering. Augusto Pinochets blodige diktatur tog over, og tusindvis af chilenere blev i den kommende tid dræbt eller måtte flygte i eksil. Heriblandt den 4-årige Paula Larrain og hendes familie, der i sommeren 1974 endte i Danmark.

Mit "Das Schönste vom Schwager" spannt Herbert Schneider einen weiten Bogen über sein langjähriges Schaffen. In liebevoller Heiterkeit schreibt, - nein spricht er über seine Geburtsstadt. Witzig, manchmal ironisch, hintergründig aber immer zugetan beschreibt er Alltagssituationen und in poetischer Melancholie spricht er vom Vergessen und Vergehen. Alles in einem gepflegten bairisch, bodenständig, verständlich, sympathisch und intelligent, doch ohne intellektuelle Eitelkeiten.

सोचती हूँ- खुद के तखैयुल से, अपने देश से, अपने देश के लोगों से, और तमाम दुनिया के लोगों से- यानी खुदा की तखलीफ से, मेरी मुहब्बत का गुनाह सचमुच बहुत बड़ा है, बहुत संगीन.... 

Mientras Andrea Camilleri está trabajando, su bisnieta se mete a escondidas debajo de la mesa para jugar. En ese momento tan sencillo como íntimo, el escritor descubre que no quiere que sean los demás los que le cuenten a la niña, cuando se haga mayor, cómo era su bisabuelo.

 O audiolivro "Elena Ferrante, uma longa experiência de ausência" acompanha os caminhos da misteriosa escritora italiana, desde a escolha do pseudônimo até a publicação de seu último romance. Ferrante é autora de algumas das obras mais lidas e comentadas dos últimos trinta anos. 

 Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, Frantumaglia is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. Ferrante answers many of her listeners’ questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives.

Aunque más conocido entre nosotros por haber sido el esposo de la mítica escritora, Leonard Woolf fue, por derecho propio, una de las personalidades más notables de su tiempo. Editor, escritor y político, su polifacética e intensa vida contiene todo el esplendor y la tragedia del siglo XX, del que es sin duda uno de sus más conspicuos representantes.

Thomas Mann - Meister der Gesellschaftsromane. Seine bis heute geschätzten, grandiosen Romane ließen Thomas Mann in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Erzähler aufsteigen. Die erfahrenen Autoren Richard Braun und Bert Alexander Petzold (Hg.) nehmen uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutern verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen. Bereits sein Debütroman "Buddenbrooks" von 1901 wird ein großer Erfolg und verschafft Thomas Mann (1875-1955) fast 30 Jahre später den Nobelpreis für Literatur.

Franz Kafka - Erfinder des Kafkaesken schreibt Weltliteratur. Obwohl Franz Kafka nach seinem frühen Tod fast in Vergessenheit geraten wäre, steht sein schriftstellerisches Werk heute wie kaum ein anderes für die literarische Moderne. Die erfahrenen Autoren Richard Braun und Bert Alexander Petzold (Hg.) nehmen uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutern verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen. Das Leben von Franz Kafka (1883-1924) war kurz. Außer seiner Erzählung "Die Verwandlung" blieben viele seiner Romane, die er in Prag auf Deutsch verfasste, unvollendet.

James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, laid down the template for the coming-of-age novel, while his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is of perennial interest. 

 The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic.

At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a jazz journalist for The New Statesman.

La vida de Æmilia Bassano, la mujer a la que Shakespeare amó en secreto, lo inspiró para escribir sus obras más famosas y que vivió limitada por las restricciones que el renacimiento inglés imponía pero que ahora sí puede ser puesta en primer plano y dada a conocer en todo su esplendor.