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Das Goethe-Hörbuch für unsere Zeit: Rüdiger Safranski führt uns Goethe in neuem Licht vor und macht uns zu Zeitgenossen dieses Genies und Menschen, dessen Lebensspanne das verspielte Rokoko, die klassisch-romantische Zeit und die Nüchternheit des Eisenbahnzeitalters umgreift. Mit seinem Namen hat man später eine ganze Epoche bezeichnet: die Goethezeit.

The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey. Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey...

Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about...

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of...

When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.

In the six lectures of Who Was Jane Austen? Sorting Fact from Fiction, you’ll join literary scholar Stephanie Insley Hershinow to explore some of the most enduring myths surrounding Austen and her work. As you dive into the Regency period and the details of Austen’s life, you’ll hear her debunk many longstanding assumptions and misrepresentations that have shaped her image in the popular imagination.

Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.

Jan Gaspard ist wieder als Autor für "Offenbarung 23" tätig! In Vorfreude auf die nächste "O23"-Folge aus seiner Feder: Hört hier, was Jan Gaspard euch über sich erzählt! In diesem Interview mit dem Produzenten Sebastian Pobot gibt er spannende Einblicke in seine Arbeit, er erzählt von seinem Werdegang als Autor, davon, was ihn im Leben bewegt und was ihn an Verschwörungen und Verschwörungstheorien so fasziniert. Ein Muss für "O23"-Fans.

Questa è la storia di un ragazzo che sentiva di non trovarsi nel posto giusto. E così è andato a cercarsene un altro. In famiglia c'erano pochi soldi: quando si andava in pizzeria si sceglieva il piatto che costava meno, non quello che piaceva davvero. Il suo destino sembrava già segnato. Non aveva un talento particolare a cui affidarsi né un grande sogno da inseguire, e ogni volta che cercava di esprimere un desiderio trovava qualcuno che gli diceva che non era per lui. Così si era convinto che certi pensieri non se li poteva permettere.

Die umschwärmte Filmschönheit und der talentierte Schriftsteller – es könnte eine Liebesgeschichte aus Hollywood sein. Marlene Dietrich und Erich Maria Remarque lernen sich in den 1930er-Jahren im politischen Exil kennen und haben von Anfang an viel gemeinsam, doch trotzdem hat ihre turbulente Beziehung nicht auf Dauer Bestand. Was bleibt, sind Remarques Briefe an seine geliebte Marlene: Dieser Band sammelt die berührenden Schriftstücke voller Sehnsucht, Intimität und Leidenschaft.

Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la petite dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas préparé. Française d'origine algérienne. Musulmane pratiquante. Clichoise qui passe plus de trois heures par jour dans les transports. Une touriste. Une banlieusarde qui observe les comportements parisiens. Je suis une menteuse, une pécheresse. Adolescente, je suis une élève instable. Adulte, je suis hyper-inadaptée. J'écris des histoires pour éviter de vivre la mienne. J'ai fait quatre ans de thérapie. C'est ma plus longue relation.

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” —...

'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding—and contested—writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King—all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives “A treat for fans of Stephen...

In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with these questions - our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems - through the intertwined lives, loves and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright.

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir and Finalist for Narration by the Author From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his...

Spannende, stimmungsvolle aber auch dramatische Flugerlebnisse verarbeitet der Autor in einem autobiographischen Roman; gesprochen wird lebendig mit etwas differenzierten Stimmen; Kino im Kopf - Film im Kopf mit viel Gefühl von Dr. Feelbook Deutsche Übersetzung von Annette Lallemend

Nach über 30 Jahren kreativen Widerstands als Autorin und Aktivistin hat Bernardine Evaristo es geschafft, Geschichte zu schreiben. Als erste Schwarze Frau erhielt sie 2019 den Booker Prize und steht nun im Mittelpunkt der Literaturwelt. "Manifesto" ist ein Memoire über ihre Hingabe und Beharrlichkeit, Geschichten von Menschen zu erzählen, die meist unerzählt bleiben. Es ist das bewegende Zeugnis ihres einzigartigen Lebensweges.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right...

We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau.