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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...
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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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Viaje al país de los profetas es el libro más desconocido de uno de los escritores más conocidos de Chile. Solo tuvo una edición, en septiembre de 1969, y ni siquiera se publicó en nuestro país, sino en Argentina. Nunca reeditado hasta ahora, es un testimonio entusiasta del Israel de los kibutz, en los que Manuel Rojas creyó ver, al menos parcialmente, la utopía alcanzada mediante el trabajo colectivo: «Una realización en pequeño del sueño...
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The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion-on modernism itself. Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling in the extraordinary James family, William emerges here as an immensely complex and curious man. William James, ten years in the making, draws on a vast number of unpublished...
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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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In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the "normal" life of Southie, Michael first reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen, he escapes further, to Paris and...
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Few today would not recognize the opening lines of one of the most famous poems in the English language: "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house..." Written as a gift from a faithful father to his loving family, Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem has delighted millions of people everywhere for over a century.
This book tells the story behind the famous poem and its creator. Set in the early nineteenth century, as New York entered...
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On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother's home in Salem. In 1853 Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is widely recognized as the most popular Yiddish writer of the twentieth century. His translated body of work, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, is beloved around the world. But although Singer was a very public and outgoing figure, much about his personal life remains unknown. In Isaac Bashevis Singer, Florence Noiville offers a glimpse into the world of this much-beloved but persistently...
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The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning portrait of the Victorian writer and historian Thomas Carlyle A Pulitzer finalist that draws upon years of research and unpublished letters, Thomas Carlyle examines the life of the Victorian genius. Carlyle was the author of Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution: A History, and he possessed one of literature's most flamboyant prose styles. Despite a childhood beset by anxiety and illness, Carlyle...
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Where We Have Hope is the gripping memoir of a young American journalist. In 1980, Andrew Meldrum arrived in a Zimbabwe flush with new independence, and he fell in love with the country and its optimism. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe consolidated power and the government evolved into despotism. In May 2003, Meldrum, the last foreign journalist still working in the dangerous and chaotic nation,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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