Titoli in Autori

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive...

В этой книге современным, ярким, зачастую ироничным языком рассказывается как о судьбе Пушкина до сентября 1826 года, так и об удивительном времени — золотом веке русской культуры, — времени Александровской оттепели, когда формировался русский язык и русское сознание. Это время великолепных салонов и стремительно развивающегося театра, динамично меняющейся моды и поразительной практики русского застолья, восхитительных красавиц и импозантных бретёров, скандальных разводов и красивых проявлений благородства…. Мы погружаемся в дела давно минувших дней и забываем о том, что происходит вокруг нас.

Mit elf Jahren wurde die gebürtige Wienerin und spätere amerikanische Germanistin Ruth Klüger in das KZ Theresienstadt und nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert. Sie überlebte, doch das weitere Leben blieb bis zuletzt eine Herausforderung. In ihren Erinnerungen schildert Klüger fünfzig Jahre später ihre jüdische Kindheit und Jugend in Wien während des Nationalsozialismus, die Bedingungen ihres Überlebens und die (Un)möglichkeit des Weiterlebens. Ihre Worte, so klar wie kompromisslos, schmerzen und erschüttern bis heute. Gelesen von der Autorin selbst, entfaltet der Text einen unwiderstehlichen Sog.

Céleste Albaret fut la gouvernante et la seule confidente de Marcel Proust pendant les huit dernières années de son existence, durant lesquelles il acheva l'écriture de son chef-d'œuvre - elle est d'ailleurs une des clefs du personnage de Françoise dans "La Recherche". Jour après jour elle assista dans sa vie, son travail et son long martyre, ce grand malade génial qui se tua volontairement à la tâche.

A “hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays, articles, observations—and even some country-music lyrics—that offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original “[Tom] Robbins is fearless, original, mind-expanding, and funny as hell...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by...

Escritor e intelectual argentino, maestro del relato corto, la prosa poética y la narración breve en general, fue creador de una saga importante de novelas que inauguraron una nueva forma de hacer literatura en Latinoamérica que rompió los moldes clásicos mediante narraciones impresionantes donde los personajes adquirían una autonomía y una profundidad psicológica pocas veces vista hasta entonces.

Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.

C’è un punto in cui l’occhio umano non vede: gli scienziati lo chiamano punto cieco, e di questo si tratta, di una zona d’ombra nella retina dove non arrivano la luce e le immagini esterne. Per fortuna interviene il cervello a “riempire” quel buco nero: capta informazioni dalle aree dell’occhio circostanti e le proietta su quel vuoto. L’esistenza di questo punto cieco è tanto spaventosa quanto affascinante. Come lo sono tutte le zone d’ombra: le parti segrete di ciascuno di noi, le aree oscure del mondo, i punti ciechi nella vita e nell’arte.

Книга воспоминаний Любови Евгеньевны Белозерской-Булгаковой — писательницы и литературного деятеля, второй жены Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова, — это уникальный текст, написанный хорошим литературным слогом с увлекательной интонацией, полный обаяния автора, доброго юмора, метких замечаний и с теплом описанных портретов близких и родных людей.

The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...

Andrea Camilleri, el querido maestro de la novela negra fallecido en julio de 2019, escribe una carta a su bisnieta Matilda. En ella repasa los episodios más representativos de su trayectoria personal y profesional junto con los hechos históricos más notables del último siglo.

Charles Dickens not only wrote some of the most famous stories in the English language but was also a fascinating man himself. Did you know that he actually owned a pet raven that inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his famous poem? In this book, narrator Kent Harris talks us through over 100 amazing such facts, covering subjects such as Dickens’ literary career, his famous works, his characters and much more. So whether you’re studying Charles Dickens for a project or are simply interested in finding out more about the greatest author of the Victorian age, this is the perfect book for you.

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki...

Charles Dickens, English novelist of the Victorian Age: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

De Profundis is a 50,000-word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting."

"Dickens is the highest poetic expression of the English tradition between the heroic century of Napoleon, the glorious past, and imperialism, the dream of his future. (...) Only when one hates the hypocritical narrow-mindedness of Victorian culture from the bottom of one's soul can one appreciates with full admiration the genius of a man who compelled us to find this disgusting world of sated sluggishness interesting and almost endearing, who redeemed life's most banal prose into poetry".

Begeben sie sich mit diesem Hörbuch auf eine spannende Entdeckungsreise durch die Stadt nach der eine Literaturepoche benannt wurde. Annette Seemann führt sie durch die deutsche Literaturstadt an ausgewählte Orte wie der Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek oder dem Nietzsche-Archiv und lässt sie Weimar aus der Perspektive von Dichtern und Schriftstellern wie Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Kafka oder Thomas Mann erleben.

On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro", and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event.

A collection of celebrated columns from The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG Dad finds Jerry Stahl fighting a terminal disease - not to mention mortality, sleeplessness, and the soul-crushing weirdness of preschool drop-offs with parents half his age. Square is the last frontier.