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Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2021-12-02
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
Format(s) : ePub
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The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with this genre – in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic, philosophical and ethical contexts) and with haiku-inspired...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-11-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in Middle English and Middle Scots poems written at the close of the Middle Ages by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows that medieval poems often...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-10-19
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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“Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography.” —The Wall Street Journal“With a sprightly tone,...
Editeur : Timber Press
Parution : 2021-10-12
Format(s) : ePub
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As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2021-07-22
Format(s) : ePub
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'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital [...] has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani is a survivor who still finds in himself the elegance to smile and hope' Amin Maalouf, Prix Goncourt winner'It is rare to capture...
Editeur : Mountain Leopard Press
Parution : 2021-07-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Cultural historians, literary scholars and linguists have been concerned with the question of how the world can be understood and represented in text. This volume presents new questions, methods and approaches in Humanism by promoting scholarly work of young researchers...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2021-07-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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THE LIFE OFTHE AUTHOR MAYA ANGELOU DISCOVERTHE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MAYA ANGELOU WITH A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou delivers an engaging and thorough retelling of the life and work of the...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2021-07-07
Collection :
The Life of the Author
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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THE LIFE OFTHE AUTHOR An expansive biography of John Milton, including an assessment of his poetry and prose and an account of the ways in which he has been presented over the past three and a half centuries—written by a leading scholar in the fieldIt is hard to...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2021-06-16
Collection :
The Life of the Author
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer.
Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-02-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2021-02-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readers Herman Melville:A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2020-10-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-07-23
Format(s) : PDF
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Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-07-23
Format(s) : ePub
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In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-04-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Dieses Buch umfasst Studien zum Leben und Werk des in der schlesischen Stadt Glogau geborenen Schriftstellers Arnold Zweig. Ziel der Veröffentlichung ist es, des ein wenig in Vergessenheit geratenen Autors fünfzig Jahre nach dem Tod zu gedenken und seinen umfangreichen...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2019-11-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-15
Format(s) : PDF
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The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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