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With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom t...

In 1943, Primo Levi, A 25-year-old Chemist And Italian Citizen Of Jewish Race, Was Arrested By Italian Fascists And Deported From His Native Turin To Auschw...

From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable.Weaving a latticework of different stran...

Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which comprised greater and mor...

This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, sh...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair wi...

In this volume along with its companion, The Library of America presents all of the most significant and best-loved works of Eudora Welty. Of her own work, ...

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Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in ...

Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncom...

This myth-busting book finally reveals the true story behind the beloved children's classics.Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer s...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life a...

Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, su...

The Friendly Dickens Helps You Turn The Pages Of A Masterpiece Like David Copperfield Or An Obscure Novel Like Nicholas Nickleby As Eagerly As You Switch Ch...

"[Julian Barnes] reinvents the wheel; I'm always fascinated to see what shape it's going to be next."—Jay McInerney With the same brilliant style and idio...

How Does One Live? How Does One Do The Good Or Honorable Thing, While Flourishing And Feeling Happy? This Question Obsessed Renaissance Writers, None More T...

With Anne Lamott's trademark wisdom, humor and honesty, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times. This New ...

Anthony Trollope was a giant of Victorian letters whose works are still read avidly today. Now, in what is surely the definitive biography, the world's lead...

The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive...

Preeminent Shakespeare Scholar James Shapiro Shows How The Tumultuous Events In England In 1606 Affected Shakespeare And Shaped The Three Great Tragedies He...

Thirty-one Essays On Sime Of The Most Influential Artists Of Our Time And Two Saints Of All Time-- Lucia Joyce, Writer's Block, Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, S...

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of...

The first full-length biography of the successful and controversial author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Introduction...

New York, des années 1960 aux années 1990. Après avoir exercé différents métiers, F. McCourt se décide à utiliser son diplôme d'enseignant. Premier...

America’s favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cookin...

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel...

Signatures: )(⁸⁻¹ A-2g⁸. Title Vignette; Head- And Tailpieces. Der Kirschbaum. Ein Kindergespräch Im Garten, In Prose: P. [427]-438. Einiges Von Und...

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

The six daughters of the eccentric Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney have inspired many books, but this group biography is widely considered to be the fine...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime . Young...

Said is acknowledged to be the pen name of the author of books in German about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution that were celebrated through...

Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The most famous poet of the Jazz A...

Michael Reynolds's "masterpiece in the making" (Library Journal) concludes with a rich and sympathetic portrayal of Nobel Prize recipient Hemingway's final ...

I was late to school, and that's all I could think about. I started across the field. And then suddenly a fire flashed in my face and the earth seemed to m...

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Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life ...

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBi...

Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature. The Modern L...

this Hugely Successful Retelling Of The Fall Of Sir Thomas More Has Gained Plaudits For Its Stage, Movie, And Television Versions. Categories: Biographies...

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into t...

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC ...

didion's Journalistic Skills Are Displayed As Never Before In This Story Of A Year In Her Life That Began With Her Daughter In A Medically Induced Coma And...

2005 HarperCollins trade paperback, Hazel Rowley (Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage). The passionate and somewhat bizarre relationship between...

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery. On Thursday nights, they met in Lewis's Magdalen College rooms to...