Titoli in Autori

Je suis né d'un coup de foudre. Quelques années plus tard, à quarante ans, ma mère est diagnostiquée souffrante d'une sclérose en plaques. Mon père devient, bien malgré lui, son aidant. Moi, j'assiste impuissant à leur chute. C'est avant tout la plus belle histoire d'amour qu'il m'ait été donné de voir que j'ai voulu raconter.

Kay Thompson’s larger-than-life story is an effervescent toast to show business with a shot of Auntie Mame and a twist of The Devil Wears Prada. A multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and...

THE HILARIOUS NEW MEMOIR FROM COMEDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATHERINE RYAN 'Deeply, unexpectedly moving at points.... and, of course, funny. Shocking, confronting, in all its shameless truths.' The Times 'Super super funny... Katherine is unashamedly authentic', Romesh Ranganathan...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

Tre storie. Tre peregrinazioni. Tre immersioni in un passato illustre, reinventato, emozionato, elettrizzato dalla fantasia letteraria di uno scrittore in stato di grazia. Nella prima il poeta-mercante trecentesco Lapo Pegolotti lascia Firenze con le sue carovane di mercanzia; trasformando i suoi viaggi in occasioni letterarie, riesce a farsi ricevere da Dante a Ravenna, prende quasi abusivamente parte alla scalata del Mont Ventoux con Petrarca, ritrova Boccaccio a Firenze dopo la peste e salva il Decamerone, quindi scrive di suo un poema in terza rima.

La biografía de un apasionado de la literatura. El inmortal autor de -Madame Bovary- o -Salambó-, está considerado como uno de los mejores novelistas occidentales y es conocido por su escrupulosa devoción a su arte y su estilo, cuyo mejor ejemplo fue su interminable búsqueda de le mot juste (-la palabra exacta-).

Najnowsza biografia Swietlany Allilujewej - jedynej córki Stalina. Dostep do zamknietych wczesniej radzieckich archiwów umozliwil autorce stworzenie pelnego obrazu tej kontrowersyjnej postaci. Wychowana w luksusach "czerwona ksiezniczka", a z drugiej strony nieszczesliwa dziewczyna, która nie zaznala milosci rodziców, przez cale zycie bezskutecznie poszukiwala swojego miejsca na ziemi.

Su obra narrativa lo convirtió en uno de los mejores escritores del siglo XX mientras que su espíritu aventurero y bohemio lo llevó a vivir las extraordinarias experiencias que luego reflejaría magistralmente en sus creaciones literarias. Su lucha humanitaria y su compromiso social lo impulsaron a darle un nuevo giro a su estilo narrativo. Hemingway fue un hombre soñador y valiente cuya vida es un ejemplo de experiencia, osadía y pasión.

Ernest Hemingway's literary ambitions took root in France in the 1920s among some of the most extravagantly creative artists of the twentieth century. Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and others were drawn to the left bank of the Seine in Paris after World War I. Hemingway joined them and, with the publication of his book The Sun Also Rises became one of the most powerful forces in the vortex of talent and experimentation.

Bloomsbury presents Bread of Angels written and read by Patti Smith A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an...

En ellas habla sobre la juventud y el paso del tiempo, el amor, el matrimonio y la paz, la soledad y la satisfacción. Toma como inspiración las conchas en la orilla para ofrecer un enfoque universal sobre las distintas etapas de la vida. Como madre de cinco, una escritora aclamada y una aviadora pionera, Lindbergh presenta una mirada realista sobre la modernidad tan amenazante como abrumadora, haciendo énfasis en las herramientas que nos complican la vida más allá de simplificarla y los múltiples compromisos que nos alejan de nuestras familias.

4º livro de Graciliano Ramos na voz de Erom Cordeiro chega à Supersônica! Publicado em 1945, Infância é um livro autobiográfico em que Graciliano Ramos retraça seus anos de formação.

George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites? George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various...

First published in 1929, Goodbye to All That is Robert Graves’s extraordinary account of a world shattered by the First World War—and of one man’s struggle to leave it behind. From his childhood in Edwardian England and his education at Charterhouse to the blood-soaked trenches of the...

Uma das principais escritoras francesas da atualidade, Annie Ernaux, empreende neste livro a ambiciosa e bem-sucedida tarefa de escrever uma autobiografia impessoal. Com ousadia e precisão estilística, ela lança mão de um sujeito coletivo e indeterminado, que ocupa o lugar do eu para dar luz...

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea—that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now.

Paulo Coelho es uno de los autores más apreciados en el género de los libros de autoayuda. Obras como El alquimista y Manual del guerrero de la luz, entre muchas otras, vendieron más de 230 millones de ejemplares y fueron traducidas a 80 idiomas. Pero aún antes de llegar a ser una especie de imperio editorial en sí mismo, Coelho tuvo una vida muy interesante para conocer. Nació en un ambiente religioso que no toleraba su rebeldía, al punto de someterlo a terapia de electrosocks cuando ya había crecido.

When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. Majdalani's reportage through the months of 2020 bears witness to the ways in which an ancient civilization slowly, then rapidly...

In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks new ground in the evocation of George Orwell’s personal life and in our understanding of his art. Based on original interviews, previously undiscovered letters and documents, and astute literary detective work, Orwell is the major biography of one of the great yet elusive literary figures of our time. Shelden reveals the author of 1984 as a lively, engaging literary personality.

A collector of strange machines. An enthusiast of skiing and sweets. A world famous fantasy writer who kept many secrets, even from his own family. What did he do with the unsuccessful versions of his books? What did he do to anger Philip K. Dick? How did he survive three occupations of Lviv? In a word: Stanisław Lem's life was out of this world. It's a story full of unexpected twists of fate, funny anecdotes, tragic events, small secrets, and big mysteries. It's the first Polish biography of Stanisław Lem, written by another science fiction writer, Wojciech Orliński.