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What if the only way to rediscover the soul of America was to follow a forgotten Byzantine scholar back to Italy? Disillusioned by what his country has become—fractured, fast, and spiritually empty—a Greek American lawyer and jazz musician looks for a way out. He does what any reasonable person would: he takes his two Pomeranians and goes off to Italy.

Charles Dickens: A New Biography is an epic, fully immersive portrait of the most celebrated novelist of the Victorian age, stripping away the polished legend to reveal the driven, brilliant, deeply conflicted man behind the greatest stories ever told.

Philippe Torreton a passé trois nuits avec le Samusocial. Trois nuits de maraude dans Paris, aux côtés des bénévoles, des infirmiers, des travailleurs sociaux et des gens qui vivent dans la rue. De ces heures transcrites, il tire un long poème en prose qui n'a rien d'emprunté ou d'artificiel. Il raconte au contraire avec une vivacité saisissante la misère, la spirale infernale, la folie parfois, ou l'exil, mais aussi l'engagement, l'espoir, l'amitié et l'impuissance de ceux qui se battent, la colère de ne pouvoir faire plus.

On a beaucoup écrit sur Mark Twain. Cependant, peu de choses ont été faites pour entendre ses propres mots, pensées et sentiments concernant sa vie, ses défis et ses succès. La série En ses propres termes vise précisément ce but, en commençant par présenter l'homme qui était le plus grand esprit de son époque et l'auteur des Aventures de Huckleberry Finn, le grand roman américain, des Aventures de Tom Sawyer, le grand roman pour garçons, et de La Tragédie de Pudd'nhead Wilson, un bijou méconnu sauf pour les lecteurs avertis.

Se ha escrito mucho sobre el Dr. Johnson. Sin embargo, poco se ha hecho para escuchar sus propias palabras, pensamientos y sentimientos acerca de su vida, desafíos y éxitos. Nuestra serie En Sus Propias Palabras tiene precisamente ese propósito, comenzando con el mayor ingenio de su época y autor del primer Diccionario de la lengua inglesa, una hazaña inmensa que requirió muchos años de trabajo.

Se ha escrito mucho sobre Mark Twain. Sin embargo, poco se ha hecho para escuchar sus propias palabras, pensamientos y sentimientos acerca de su vida, desafíos y éxitos. La serie En Sus Propias Palabras tiene precisamente ese propósito, comenzando con él como el mayor ingenio de su época y autor de Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, la gran novela estadounidense, Tom Sawyer, la gran novela para chicos, y El hombre que corrompió a Hadleyburg, una verdadera joya oculta para los lectores literarios informados.

""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically...

La singularité de Sorj Chalandon est d'écrire merveilleusement tant comme journaliste qu'écrivain. Comment passer d'une écriture journalistique de l'immédiat à celle, littéraire, du jeu sur le style, le temps et le non-dit ? L'auteur raconte... Sorj Chalandon associe son métier de journaliste, de reporter et celui d'écrivain avec un talent remarquable. Lecteurs et critiques ne s'y sont pas trompés et ont plébiscité chacun de ses ouvrages, tout comme les jurés des prix littéraires.

At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. When Augusten is forced to examine himself, he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband.

Markus Zusak visits Audible to discuss his latest novel, the much-awaited Bridge of Clay, 13 years after his last book published. In Bridge of Clay, listeners will be transported to Australia and follow the story of five brothers living in a house without grown-ups. But what happens when their father walks back into their lives? Markus Zusak talks about how he came up with the idea for Bridge of Clay, the dynamic between the five Dunbar brothers and the many quirks woven into the story.

"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata e Brooklyn, da Roma a Londra, dall'infanzia al futuro, il nuovo libro dell'autrice di "Cleopatra va in prigione" è un'avventura che unisce vecchie e nuove migrazioni.

Fue un novelista, dramaturgo y poeta francés nacido en 1910, cuya obra expresa una profunda rebelión contra la sociedad y sus costumbres, hablando sin pudor de la criminalidad, los prejuicios, el homosexualismo, etcétera, por lo que su lectura fue muy resistida en muchos países, pero alabado en otros.

Ende der 1790er Jahre – als die meisten Staaten in Europa noch im eiserenen Griff absolutistischer Herrscher waren – galt die Idee vom freien Individuum als brandgefährlich. Und dennoch stellte eine Gruppe von Denkern in der kleinen Universitätsstadt Jena das Ich in den Mittelpunkt ihres Denkens, Schreibens und Lebens. Zu diesem Kreis gehörten die Dichter Goethe, Schiller und Novalis ebenso wie die Philosophen Fichte, Schelling und Hegel, die genialen Schlegel-Brüder und ihre Muse, Caroline Schlegel.

Like many writers of her day, Emily Dickinson was a virtual unknown during her lifetime. After her death, however, when people discovered the incredible amount of poetry that she had written, Dickinson became celebrated as one of America’s greatest poets. Emily Dickinson looks at the reclusive life and remarkable work of the poet.

J. D. Salinger diventò un mito non soltanto per il suo indubbio talento per la scrittura, ma anche per l'alone di mistero che avvolgeva la sua vita privata. Con soltanto quattro libri pubblicati mentre era in vita, si convertì in uno degli autori più amati del XX secolo. Il suo romanzo "Il giovane Holden", pubblicato nel 1951, diventò subito un best-seller e il libro di culto di un'intera generazione.

At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that, embodying the spirit of the man himself, is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun.

Patricia Highsmith, author of classics such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, was a lesbian and a writer who defied simple categorization. Marijane Meaker is the author of more than 40 books. Meaker and Highsmith met in New York City, became lovers, and embarked on a romance amidst the bohemian set of Greenwich Village and the literary crowd of Fire Island. Written with wit and brassy candor, this is a revealing look at a controversial icon of popular American fiction.

Die Autobiografie eines der herausragendsten und streitbarsten Schriftstellers der Nachkriegsliteratur. Stefan Heym (1913-2001) ist eine Jahrhundertfigur. Sein Leben war aufs Engste mit der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts verwoben: Er floh vor den Nationalsozialisten, wurde in die USA eingebürgert, unterstützte die amerikanischen Invasionstruppen bei der psychologischen Kriegsführung, übersiedelte 1953 in die DDR und leistete trotzdem Widerstand gegen die SED.

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers A Penguin Classic On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the...