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Gatsby: Death of an Irishman is a fresh and compelling insight into the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the genesis of his most iconic character. Underpinning Fitzgerald’s brilliant but turbulent life was his complex, evolving and surprising relationship with his Irish identity. From childhood shame at being ‘common’ to a patriotic immersion in Irish literature and revolutionary politics at Princeton.

"Hätte Hegel seine ganze Logik geschrieben und im Vorwort gesagt, daß sie nur ein gedankliches Experiment sei, in welchem er sich obendrein an vielen Stellen vor etwas gedrückt hat, dann wäre er wohl der größte Denker gewesen, der jemals gelebt hat. Nun ist er nur komisch." Die Abneigung Kierkegaards gegen das Hegelsche System oder gegen Systematiker überhaupt stellt ihn in eine Linie mit verwandten Denkern "freien Geistes" - von den Gnostikern bis zu Nietzsche.

Susan Orlean’s bestseller, New York Times Notable Book, and Reese’s Book Club Pick is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation...

Best selling crime novelist Lee Child joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss his work, his writing, his latest book Night School, and his thoughts on Tom Cruise as his famous protagonist.

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

Vom schwarzen Schaf der Familie zum weltberühmten Schriftsteller - ein packendes Hörbuch über eine Leuchtturmbauer-Dynastie und die frühen Jahre Robert Louis Stevensons, Autor von DIE SCHATZINSEL und DR. JEKYLL UND MR. HYDE. Schottland, 1868. Der fast 18-jährige Robert Louis Stevenson träumt von einem Leben als Schriftsteller. Eine Zeitlang lässt sein Vater ihn gewähren, doch als Robert sein Studium vernachlässigt und sich unstandesgemäß verliebt, muss er Edinburgh verlassen.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ist einer der bedeutendsten Erzähler in deutscher Sprache. Werke wie Die Verwandlung, Der Hungerkünstler, Der Prozess sind immer wieder aufs Neue verstörend und gleichzeitig faszinierend. Zutiefst zerrissen und einsam, schrieb Franz Kafka ausschließlich nachts und fühlte sich zeitlebens unverstanden.

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves...

"Changer : méthode" est le récit d'une vie, le parcours douloureux et difficile d'un transfuge de classe pour s'extraire de son milieu culturel et social. La profondeur des changements intimes, la douleur des liens qui se rompent et la volonté inouïe qu'il faut mettre en œuvre pour se réinventer sont au cœur de ce livre audio magnifique.

Das Erbe seines Vaters hat Lukas Bärfuss ausgeschlagen: Es waren vor allem Schulden. Die markante Nase seines Vaters hat er dagegen schon an seinen eigenen Sohn weitervererbt. Den Genen entkommen wir nicht, doch wie steht es um ein auf Privatvermögen zielendes Erbrecht, das uns, obwohl kaum hundert Jahre alt, wie ein Naturgesetz vorkommt? Wie steht es um die Verantwortlichkeit jenseits der familiären Bindung, wie steht es um die Teilhabe der Nachgeborenen, deren Schicksal wir bestimmen mit dem, was wir ihnen hinterlassen, unser Erbe, unseren Müll.

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?

Anton Tschechow (1860-1904) ist einer der größten Dramatiker der Weltliteratur. Seine Werke, darunter Die Möwe, Onkel Wanja und Der Kirschgarten, sind Tragikomödien über das lächerliche, fürchterliche Dasein, über Begehren und Enttäuschung. Ohne jede Sentimentalität blickte er auf das Leben, das, so schrieb er seiner Frau, nicht zu erklären sei, so wenig wie eine Mohrrübe.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects...

The nonfiction debut from beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay: her bestselling biography of novelist Daphne du Maurier. “It's impressive how Tatiana was able to recreate the personality of my mother, including her sense of humor. It is...

Bob Roth, meditation teacher and CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, joins us to discuss his latest audiobook, Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation. Roth’s audiobook examines what we might do to combat the growing stress epidemic which has gripped the world and why he believes that transcendental meditation is a key tool. In this interview we discuss what transcendental meditation is, how he first came across the technique and how the view of meditation has changed over the years.

Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.

Klaus Mann (1906-1949) hat sich mit seinen Romanen, Tagebüchern und Essays als ein kluger, analytischer und weitsichtiger Zeitzeuge einen Platz in der Literaturgeschichte gesichert...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.

"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.