Résultats pour "Autobiographie" dans Arts et littérature

"Soudain, une nuit, sur la BBC, j'ai entendu "Rock Around the Clock' par Bill Haley & His Comets, qui allait changer ma vie." Pour la première fois, Eddy Mitchell se livre. Il se raconte et nous raconte ici sa vie, depuis le Belleville des années 1950 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. L'enfance, le...

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk is a prominent voice in Turkish literature, speaking to the country’s history, culture, and politics. In 2006, he became the first Turkish writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Autobiographies of Orhan Pamuk is the first book-length study of the life and writings of Pamuk. It provides both a historical and cultural context that will help listeners better understand and appreciate both the man and his work. Though his books deal with specifically Turkish issues, like all great literature, the themes they explore are universal.

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had...

"In dieser Autobiographie werde ich stets im Hinterkopf behalten, dass ich aus dem Grab spreche. Ich spreche buchstäblich aus dem Grab, denn wenn das Buch aus der Druckerpresse kommt, werde ich tot sein." Mark Twain, der weltberühmte Autor der Abenteuer von Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn, hatte in seiner Kindheit nicht viel zu lachen. Aufgewachsen in ärmlichen Verhältnissen fing er schon früh an zu schreiben und zu reisen und wurde mit der Zeit zu einem der beliebtesten amerikanischen Schriftsteller. Einfühlsam führt Martin Held durch das aufregende Leben des unsterblichen Mark Twain.

Brought to you by Penguin. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept...

“I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.” So begins the hilarious and unexpectedly moving adventures of an amateur player who lucked into a seat at the biggest card game in town - the World Series of Poker.

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill...

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author. From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the...

In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was a...

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America. From The Nation magazine columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Zirin...

Brought to you by Penguin. This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, family matters - provide an...

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024 A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,”brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When...

In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered...

Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.

From Booker Prize–winning novelist Ian McEwan comes a dazzling collection of essays, ranging from intimate memoirs of his childhood and his early days as a writer, to illuminating explorations of consciousness, the health of the planet, and living in a world without his closest friends. "A...

Twain in Höchstform: Amerikas größter Humorist offenbart Geheimnisse und Abenteuer seiner Autobiographie - noch vertraulicher und persönlicher, mit einer Fülle bislang unveröffentlichter Texte. Nach dem furiosen Auftakt geht es endlich weiter - humorvoll, verspielt und bissig, wie wir Twain lieben, zugleich aber unverstellt, empfindsam und privat wie selten zuvor.

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Books, feminism, school bullies, Hollywood stars, bears, The Handmaid's Tale, vengeance, love, creativity, death -- welcome to Margaret Atwood's world. With her trademark wit, infamous wisdom and frankly astonishing recall, the creative icon takes us on a tour of her life...

Named One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2026 One of The New York Times’s anticipated books of February! What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope? National Book Award–longlisted author Christopher Beha recounts his struggle with these questions while making an earnest appeal for...

100 Jahre musste gewartet werden, denn Mark Twain hatte verfügt, dass seine Autobiographie erst 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod veröffentlicht werden darf...

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt...