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21) A House Unlocked
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The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house, Golsoncott. Long after the house was sold out of the family, she begins to piece together the lives of those she knew fifty years before.
As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, Lively paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change-and of a family that transformed with the times. Charting the course of the domestic...
22) Poetic Pearls
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A poetry anthology. a book for all ages. written by few best poets of the city.
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Históricamente, los sueños han sido objeto de estudio de todas las ramas posibles de la psicología: del psicoanálisis a la psicología cognitiva, pasando por la neuropsiquiatría. La sociología, en cambio, ha sido una de las grandes ausentes en el análisis de esta expresión humana a un tiempo seductora e inquietante.
Con La interpretación sociológica de los sueños, Bernard Lahire busca llenar este vacío y sentar las bases de lo que él...
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Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Off to the Side is the tale of one of America's most beloved writers. Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears. He chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admires-including Peter...
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In her beguiling memoir, Wait for Me!, Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire (and the youngest of the famously witty brood of writers, agitators, and icons), recounted her eventful life with wit and grace. All in One Basket collects the Duchess of Devonshire's breezy, occasional writings and provides a disarming look at a life lived with great zest and originality.
All in One Basket combines two earlier collections, Counting My Chickens and Home...
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Giving Up is Jillian Becker's intimate account of her brief but extraordinary time with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life. Abandoned by Ted Hughes, Sylvia found companionship and care in the home of Becker and her husband, who helped care for the estranged couple's two small children while Sylvia tried to rest. In clear-eyed recollections unclouded by the intervening decades, Becker describes the events of...
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Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's most revered poets. And yet she has never been fully understood as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop's letters to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer...
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Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper cut-out artist, a neurotic hypochondriac, and a man with intense but frustrated sexual desires.
This startling and immensely readable, definitive biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Supreme ConsecrationThe Nobel Prize in Literature represents the highest distinction a writer can aspire to, elevating its laureates to the ranks of the world's great literary geniuses. Established according to the will of the Swedish industrialist, engineer, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, this international award has been given annually since 1901 by the Swedish Academy, as a way to recognize a literary work that...
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This first-ever biography of Harriet de Boinville explores her close relationships with Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other leading writers of the Romantic era, but also tells the gripping story of Harriet's early years as the wife of an aristocratic military officer during the French-English Wars, when she experienced a naval attack in the Caribbean, a shipwreck off the coast of France, and detention as a suspected spy in Dunkirk. Combining...
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Personal recollections from André Gide on a man who profoundly influenced his work-Oscar Wilde André Gide, a towering figure in French letters, draws upon his friendship with Oscar Wilde to sketch a compelling portrait of the tragic, doomed author, both celebrated and shunned in his time. Rather than compile a complete biography, Gide invites us to discover Wilde as he did-from their first meeting in 1891 to their final parting just two years...
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Fritz Molden, der 1964 den Buchverlag Molden gründete, war Zeit seines Lebens ein begnadeter Geschichtenerzähler – und ein prägender Verleger. In der Familie Molden hat der Elefant Jakob Tradition, für seine Kinder spinnt und erzählt Fritz Molden die Geschichten von Jakob weiter – meist beim Zubettgehen.
Die Geschichten von Jakob sind erhalten geblieben. Hanna Molden greift sie nun auf und erzählt uns das widerständige Leben von Fritz...
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Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. "Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its promise of even better things to come," wrote A. C. Spectorsky, a former staffer at the New Yorker. When he published his first and only novel, “The Gay Place”, in 1961, literary luminaries such as David Halberstam, Willie Morris, and Gore Vidal hailed...
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Get the Summary of Claire Dederer's Monsters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Claire Dederer grapples with the moral dilemma of appreciating art created by morally reprehensible individuals. She reflects on the personal impact of the Access Hollywood tape and the #MeToo movement, which prompted her to reconsider her admiration for Woody Allen's work in light of the allegations against him. Dederer revisits "Annie...
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Enfermé dans un mariage malheureux avec une épouse alcoolique et manipulatrice, le personnage central de cette histoire est injustement accusé de faits qu'il défend avec vigueur devant la justice. Face à cette épreuve dévastatrice, il doit faire un choix déchirant : succomber au désespoir ou se lancer dans une lutte acharnée. Dans ce témoignage, il relate son combat quotidien pour la vérité et l'équité.
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Una verdadera joya en la que Henry Miller viaja de la literatura a la vida y viceversa. El mapa mental de uno de los genios más sobresalientes del siglo XX. Indispensable.
De la literatura a la vida y de la vida a la literatura, estas cartas a Michael Fraenkel, escritas entre 1935 y 1938, constituyen uno de los destellos de inteligencia más deslumbrantes del autor de Sexus.
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This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was, however, much more, as Booth shows us in this intriguing study of a man who thrived on the times in which he lived. While Holmes fans will be captivated by the various tidbits that offer insight into their hero's creation;...
40) William Styron
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A compelling and authoritative portrait of an American literary master. William Styron was one of the most highly regarded and controversial authors of his generation. In this illuminating biography, James L. W. West III draws upon letters, papers, and manuscripts as well as interviews with Styron's friends and family to recount in rich detail the experiences that shaped each of his groundbreaking books. From Styron's Southern upbringing, which deeply...
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