The extraordinary and eventful personal account of the life of Pearl S. Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Often regarded as one of Pearl S. Buck’s most significant works, My Several Worlds is the...
Winner of the 2009 Brage Prize, the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in "Morgenbladet," the 2010 P2 Listeners' Prize, and the 2004 Norwegian Critics' Prize and nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council Literary Prize.
"No one in his generation...
An autobiographical story of childhood and family from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard. A family of four — mother, father and two boys — move to Sorland, to a new house on a new estate. It is the early 1970s, the...
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also...
In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University...
Notatki te nie uczą, jak poznać mędrca Skoworodę - że jest to osobista sprawa każdego - są po prostu chęcią podzielenia się swoimi przemyśleniami z wielbicielami Grigorija Sawicza.
Minęło 200 lat, odkąd idee Skoworody zaczęły...
Praca poświęcona wybitnemu myślicielowi humanistycznemu i pisarzowi demokratycznemu XVIII wieku Hryhorijowi Sawiczowi Skoworodzie, składa się z dwóch rozdziałów – „W poszukiwaniu prawdy” i „G.S. Skoworoda i Kolegium Charkowskie....