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Are we responsible for, and to, those forces that have formed us - our families, friends, and communities? Where do we leave off and others begin? In The Tribal Knot, Rebecca McClanahan looks for answers in the history of her family. Poring over letters, artifacts, and documents that span more than a century, she discovers a tribe of hardscrabble Midwest farmers, hunters, trappers, and laborers struggling to hold tight to the ties that bind them,...
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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest.
Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo Moré, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair...
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This book tells the autobiography of my father, his years in Haiti, and his transition as an immigrant in foreign lands. His personal account mirrors the daily struggles one may face under the Duvaliers' regimes in the sixties through the mid of eighties to cultural shock and identity in other countries. Growing up, he experiences a lot of different emotions regarding his father's absence from the home along with dealing with his sudden death that...
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Jerzy Kosinski is one of the most important and original writers of our times. Passing By serves as his legacy, a collection of writings that answers many questions about his work and offers a revealing and provocative self-portrait by an author whose life was shrouded in enigma. The man who emerges here has a passion for sport, a quirky sense of fun, an idiosyncratic range of acquaintances stretching from Pope John Paul II to Warren Beatty, and an...
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In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2' s most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experience shaped his leftist politics in critical ways, but with the Cold War climate taking over, Mulgan' s allegiance was torn between the andartes...
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Get the Summary of Claire Dederer's Monsters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Claire Dederer grapples with the moral dilemma of appreciating art created by morally reprehensible individuals. She reflects on the personal impact of the Access Hollywood tape and the #MeToo movement, which prompted her to reconsider her admiration for Woody Allen's work in light of the allegations against him. Dederer revisits "Annie...
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Enfermé dans un mariage malheureux avec une épouse alcoolique et manipulatrice, le personnage central de cette histoire est injustement accusé de faits qu'il défend avec vigueur devant la justice. Face à cette épreuve dévastatrice, il doit faire un choix déchirant : succomber au désespoir ou se lancer dans une lutte acharnée. Dans ce témoignage, il relate son combat quotidien pour la vérité et l'équité.
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Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. "Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its promise of even better things to come," wrote A. C. Spectorsky, a former staffer at the New Yorker. When he published his first and only novel, “The Gay Place”, in 1961, literary luminaries such as David Halberstam, Willie Morris, and Gore Vidal hailed...
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Fritz Molden, der 1964 den Buchverlag Molden gründete, war Zeit seines Lebens ein begnadeter Geschichtenerzähler – und ein prägender Verleger. In der Familie Molden hat der Elefant Jakob Tradition, für seine Kinder spinnt und erzählt Fritz Molden die Geschichten von Jakob weiter – meist beim Zubettgehen.
Die Geschichten von Jakob sind erhalten geblieben. Hanna Molden greift sie nun auf und erzählt uns das widerständige Leben von Fritz...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003" Hermann Kurzke is Professor of Literature at the University of Mainz and the author of several books. He is the editor of Thomas Mann's collected essays.
This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann.
Engrossing vignettes enable us to enter Mann's life and work from unique...
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This first-ever biography of Harriet de Boinville explores her close relationships with Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other leading writers of the Romantic era, but also tells the gripping story of Harriet's early years as the wife of an aristocratic military officer during the French-English Wars, when she experienced a naval attack in the Caribbean, a shipwreck off the coast of France, and detention as a suspected spy in Dunkirk. Combining...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Supreme ConsecrationThe Nobel Prize in Literature represents the highest distinction a writer can aspire to, elevating its laureates to the ranks of the world's great literary geniuses. Established according to the will of the Swedish industrialist, engineer, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, this international award has been given annually since 1901 by the Swedish Academy, as a way to recognize a literary work that...
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On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother's home in Salem. In 1853 Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned...
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In All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In Easter Rising, he tells the story of how he got out. Desperate to avoid the "normal" life of Southie, Michael first reinvents himself in the burgeoning punk rock movement and the thrilling vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of Burma, and the Clash. At nineteen, he escapes further, to Paris and...
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Viaje al país de los profetas es el libro más desconocido de uno de los escritores más conocidos de Chile. Solo tuvo una edición, en septiembre de 1969, y ni siquiera se publicó en nuestro país, sino en Argentina. Nunca reeditado hasta ahora, es un testimonio entusiasta del Israel de los kibutz, en los que Manuel Rojas creyó ver, al menos parcialmente, la utopía alcanzada mediante el trabajo colectivo: «Una realización en pequeño del sueño...
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Una verdadera joya en la que Henry Miller viaja de la literatura a la vida y viceversa. El mapa mental de uno de los genios más sobresalientes del siglo XX. Indispensable.
De la literatura a la vida y de la vida a la literatura, estas cartas a Michael Fraenkel, escritas entre 1935 y 1938, constituyen uno de los destellos de inteligencia más deslumbrantes del autor de Sexus.
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At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss-enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh-had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was the most entertaining character he has created. No traitor to his class but occasionally its critic, he returns us to his Society which was, he maintains, less interesting than its members admitted. You...
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Few today would not recognize the opening lines of one of the most famous poems in the English language: "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house..." Written as a gift from a faithful father to his loving family, Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem has delighted millions of people everywhere for over a century.
This book tells the story behind the famous poem and its creator. Set in the early nineteenth century, as New York entered...
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