The major work of fiction in this collection, ‘A History of Books’, explores the relationship between reading and writing in twenty nine sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image in the writer’s mind. The...
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Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the...
A inacreditável história da minha...
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A inacreditável história da minha vida [calibre...
Биографии и мемуары, Критика
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of...
A Mad Dash picks up where 2007’s A Preferred Blur left off. A seemingly endless stream of words, one after another, details his travels all over the world, over one hundred performances and the shooting of five documentaries. The book goes right...
Биографии и мемуары, История
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
THE STORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER
At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time,...
This book is both a work of memory and a work about memory. Miron Bialoszewski (1922-83), the great avant-garde Polish poet, memorializes the doomed uprising of the Polish population against their Nazi masters which began on August 1, 1944, and was...
Se você já se perguntou, “Por que as pessoas morrem?” então este livro é para você. A resposta é que não, a morte não é necessária, inevitável ou boa. Na verdade, a morte é um erro. A morte é uma inimiga de todos nós, que deve ser...
Pendant des années, Alain Rey a enchanté les matins de France Inter avec son mot du jour. Aujourd'hui il nous offre une sélection de ses chroniques écrites entre 2000 et 2005, quatre cents mots qui vont de « Racaille et Voyou » à « Victime...