Titoli in Autori

Charlotte Brontë's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Like Jane Eyre, she was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to a brutally strict boarding school at a young age. Charlotte grew up and watched helplessly as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Brontë clan remaining.

Chico Xavier viveu seus 92 anos no limite. Com um pé na Terra e outro no além, fechou os olhos e pôs no papel poemas, crônicas, mensagens. Em mais de 500 livros publicados, mortos ilustres e anônimos consolam os vivos, pregam a paz e propagam o equilíbrio e a solidariedade. Para seus...

A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple. Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction. In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark...

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist: from "an extraordinary new voice," a "passionate and clear-eyed and unputdownable" meditation on queerness, family, and desire (Mary Karr). For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of...

Als Fabien seine kleine Maschine in das Gold des Abends lenkt, weiß er um das Risiko des Nachtfluges nach Buenos Aires. Sein Vorgesetzter drängt; der Flugplan muss unter allen Umständen eingehalten werden. Ein Unwetter tobt über Südamerika, als der Funkkontakt zu dem Postflieger endgültig abbricht.

Ferdinand von Schirachs neues Buch verwebt autobiographische Erzählungen, paradoxe Aperçus, Betrachtungen und Reflexionen zu einem...

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

The New York Times bestseller from the beloved author of A Three Dog Life—an exhilarating, superbly written memoir on friendship, family, creativity, tragedy, and the richness of life: “If you only read one book this year, make it this one” (Ann Patchett). In her bestselling memoir A Three...

Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire’s poetry through the countless peculiarities of his pursuit of a literary life—abject failure and startling success, breakthrough and breakdown, concordance and controversy—lit along the way by the books and culture he loved best.

Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the "best-loved" poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the ninety or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse. Drawing on biographical and critical material, Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishop's letters and commentary by fellow poets. Throughout, Post places Bishop's lyric poetry alongside her other poetic genres, short stories, and translations within the context of her life and aesthetic values, showing how these shaped her work. 

A ‘Book of the Year’ for The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Daily Express, The Spectator, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and the I 'I must confess my devotion immediately: I read every word this man writes. I wait for every new novel and the wait has been worth it...

When you dive into Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th-century “touring” than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow “pilgrims”, both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, “the Holy Land”, and Egypt. What Twain records are the day-to-day ups and downs of discovering the truth about people and places.

William Shakespeare, Plato, Buddha, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Napoleon Bonaparte are just some of the famous names that make up this collection of 500 famous quotes. With ancient sages, politicians, military leaders, philosophers, and physicists imparting their wisdom, this carefully crafted compilation will not only develop your cultural knowledge but entertain, amuse, and inspire you too. "Develop your General Culture in 500 Quotes" will delight those who would like a boost of cultural literacy.

Writing Home is the first of four wonderfully entertaining collections of Alan Bennett's prose. It has been followed by Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On and, most recently, the Sunday Times bestseller, Enough Said. This audiobook is read by Alex Jennings, who played Alan Bennett himself in...

In the early decades of the 20th century, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and several of their friends and colleagues at Oxford University began meeting together to share and discuss their writing. Some were novelists, poets, philosophers, and scholars, while others were simply there to revel in language, stories, and ideas.

Diretto, brutale, a tratti disperato e a tratti arrabbiato, ma anche capace di strappare un sorriso. "Il ramo spezzato" è un libro duro come un pugno, onesto senza mai essere indiscreto, un memoir di frammenti poetici accostati a francobolli di collage e minuscole trasparenze. È un catalogo di oggetti domestici e una parata di sdoppiamenti e fantasmi fra umani, alberi e bestie. Una lettera d'amore inferocita, un inno a un corpo amato ("mio da guardare, mio di cui godere"), un'esplorazione della fusione e dell'assenza, una lite senza contraddittorio, e un'opera d'arte.

Bloomsbury presents Electric Spark by Frances Wilson, read by Sara Vickers. ‘Absolutely mesmerising’ Spectator ‘I raced through it’ Ali Smith, Guardian ‘Unputdownable’ Financial Times ‘A fire-starter’ New York Times ‘Hypnotic’ TLS ‘Joyously, brilliantly intelligent’ Anne...

THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a...

Giovanni Pascoli, in omaggio alla sua Ravenna, si unisce a Dante, che là compì la sua grande opera, per comunicarci bagliori di quella “mirabile visione” che è apparsa a Dante ragazzo, e poi l’ha ritrovato maturo, costretto suo malgrado a seguire quella vita contemplativa che, da ragazzo, era stata una sua aspirazione, e che era poi stata trascurata per smarrirsi nella selva di una vita politica.

This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers—Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of...