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Sometimes there is an entire year that sparkles in the memory as a time brimming over with the fullness of life. By the age of 10, Annie’s intervals of awakening began to occur more frequently; the hours and minutes of the years that followed were spent reveling in the delights and the anguishes that accompany being fully alive.

Partant de l'analyse des interdits misogynes, solides remparts d'une supériorité masculine dont la réalité paraît sérieusement ébranlée, Virginia Woolf définit les conditions d'existence et la spécificité de la création pour les femmes. Il faut d'abord "une chambre à soi", dont la portée va bien au-delà du matériel. Il suffit d'entrer dans n'importe quelle chambre de n'importe quelle rue pour que se jette à votre face toute cette force extrêmement complexe de la féminité.

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd 'The big bang on Bond books... Beautiful, brilliant' Tony Parsons Goldeneye: the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond. From 1946 until the end...

Christine Wirth erzählt vom Leben mit ihrer Mutter, die sie 2023 durch tragische Umstände verloren hat. Das Verhältnis innerhalb der kleinen Familie - bestehend aus den Eltern und Zwillingsschwestern - war geprägt von Liebe, Herzlichkeit und dem starken Glauben an Gott, der sie durch viele Schwierigkeiten getragen hat und ihnen zugleich unvergleichliche Momente der Freude und des Glücks schenkte. Shalom Mamele ist eine Verbeugung vor der Mutter der Autorin, humorvoll, nostalgisch, wehmütig und Mut machend zugleich. In dankbarer Erinnerung setzt Christine Wirth ihrem "Mamele" ein Denkmal.

*This program includes archival recordings of John Giorno reading his poems, and an excerpt from Pierre Huyghe's Sleeptalking* A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City. When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic...

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City. Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life—from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches').

"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." —Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work Daily Rituals author Mason...

Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with...

Ludwig Ganghofer beschreibt hier seine Kindheit bis zum - 15. Lebensjahr. Weitere Teile sind das "Buch der Jugend" und das "Buch der Freiheit". Ludwig Ganghofer gilt als Vater des Heimatfilms der 1950er Jahre. In der Hochzeit des 'Kinowunders' wurden die meisten seiner Romane verfilmt. Bücher wie "Das Schweigen im Walde" sogar mehrmals. Er war ein sehr naturverbundener Mensch, der auch als leidenschaftlicher Jäger unterwegs war. Zusammen mit einigen Mitpächtern hatte er in Südtirol ein Jagdrevier von über 20.000 Hektar gepachtet.

Bloomsbury presents Goethe, written and read by A. N. Wilson Goethe remains one of the most influential figures in modern literature and thought. Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in...

‘Extraordinarily powerful’ Emma Thompson There are a million love stories, and a million stories of addiction. This one is transcendent. Louisa Young met Robert Lockhart when they were both 17. Their stop-start romance lasted decades, in which time he became a celebrated composer and she, an...

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in...

Vielleicht wusste Jean Paul, der als Johann Paul Friedrich Richter 1763 geboren und zu einem der unkonventionellsten Schriftsteller des Bürgertums wurde, dass sein literarischer Ruhm schon während seiner späten Lebensjahre verblassen würde. So begann er, sein Leben aufzuschreiben. Dabei ist das autobiografische Fragment "Selberlebensbeschreibung" entstanden, in dem er ohne Groll von seiner Kindheit als Pfarrerssohn in erdrückender Armut berichtet. Mit seiner zauberhaften Erzählstimme liest Hans Paetsch aus den frühen Erinnerungen des Jean Paul.

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may...

Stationen einer Jugend: Wenige Jahre vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges unehelich geboren, wird der Junge in ein "Militär-Knaben-Erziehungs-Institut" gesteckt, dessen preußischer Militärgeist ihm tief zuwider ist. Auch die anschließende Schule verstärkt seine Außenseiter-Rolle. Erst als er die Literatur entdeckt, hat er seine Welt gefunden.

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

Over one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leïla Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through her life as a Moroccan woman, as a writer, and as a daughter. Surrounded by art, she explores what it means to behold and clasp beauty; enveloped by night, she confronts the meaning of life and death.

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, “Brideshead Revisited”. Evelyn...

Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer. From post-apocalyptic San Francisco to Nazi-occupied America, his strange alternative futures have transfixed the world. But his life was every bit as unusual as his fiction. A Life of Philip K Dick opens a window into PKD's unique mind. Written with close cooperation with two of his ex-wives and a number of his friends, we are taken through his five marriages, his periods living in squalor, and his souring literary success. We are also given unparalleled insight into his transcendental experiences.