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Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling, tragic, and comical, these inimitable narratives tell the history of the Arctic and capture the collision of cultures precipitated by the arrival of a hapless...
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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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Cuando tenía veintisiete años, se hundió la bolsa. Cuando tenía veintiocho, me hundí yo. Entonces, supongo, me desperté. De este modo, cuando estaba a punto de cumplir los treinta, empecé a ganarme la vida escribiendo. Esta es la historia de un negro que quiso ganarse la vida con sus poemas y sus cuentos.
Divago mientras vago, la segunda de sus autobiografías, es un libro de viajes en el que su autor pone de manifiesto su perspicacia para...
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This is a biographical account of the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a personal and yet domestic telling of her life in Devon. It describes the highs and lows - certainly losing her brother on a boating trip out of Torquay Harbour affected her writing intensely.
Her defiance against her father's controlling ways, the declaration that she was going to dress like a man and become a heavy smoker just to shock him gives a more intimate picture of...
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Lluís Pasqual narra su relación con Federico García Lorca y se nos revela un extraordinario narrador. Un ensayo delicioso, de una sensibilidad y una fuerza narrativa excepcionales.
"Al igual que cuando uno se enamora por primera vez se está enamorando de alguien y del amor al mismo tiempo, García Lorca era para mí "el autor" y la Literatura: el descubrimiento de la compañía espiritual y de la capacidad de aventura que encierra un libro. Aunque...
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Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco. Sus siete novelas tienen una categoría literaria sorprendente en un campo en el que nadie, hasta aquel momento, esperaba calidad. Y es que Chandler era, ante todo, un escritor inteligente.
Despedido de su empleo como ejecutivo de una compañía petrolera por su afición a la bebida, el hombre que reveló el lado oscuro de la opulenta sociedad...
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¡Cuántas vidas malogradas¡ ¡Cuánto ha perdido la sociedad con los castigos, la incomprensión y el autoritarismo en la escuela oprimiendo así la creatividad y desarrollo del niño, surgiendo su infravaloración e impidiéndole desarrollar todo su potencial que tanta repercusión podría tener en el futuro para el ser humano. Que nadie pueda decir como la nieta de Margareth Mead Mi abuela quiso que yo tuviera una buena educación, por eso no...
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An original and unique literary tour-de-force, HIS STORY – A Novel Memoir – The Life and Times of Dick O'Toole, is a blend of memoir, faction, fiction, and radical social and political history that is funny, tragic, playful, iconoclastic, and satirical. The revelations are profound, the humor is black, and the style is a breeze. Dick O'Toole is a rogue floundering on the assault course of life. His attempts at making the world a better place and...
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Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down' and described recently as a legend of literature, was born in Newbury in 1920 as the replacement for a baby brother who died in the great influenza epidemic of 1917-19. His mother was well over 40 at the time of his birth, and his was a solitary childhood spent in a large garden. Here he explains how his days spent watching bird, beetles and wild creatures around his home engendered in him a lifelong love...
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A compelling, and important social and literary document about ten British writers of note: - Brian Aldiss - Paul Bailey - John Berger - Malcolm Bradbury - Dick Davis - John Fowles - Barry Hines, - Donall Mac Amhlaigh - Roger McGough - Peter Vansittart. Why do authors write? What fuels their passion to create? And how do background, childhood, and early experiences shape the way they see the world? Reading this book is like spending time in the company...
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The definitive guide to the origin of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, from The Hobbit to The History of Middle-earth series - includes unpublished Tolkien extracts and poetry. The Road to Middle-Earth is a fascinating and accessible exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Tom Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a work of timeless charm for millions...
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The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve-miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family that kept the group together long after the men had ceased to be friends....
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Widely considered the greatest American poet, Walt Whitman was initially deemed by the literary establishment an egomaniac, a charlatan, and a poet whose verse lacked any sense of rhyme or meter. James Thomson's engaging study of the author of “Leaves of Grass” is a vigorous defense of the poet, whom he admired and held in the same high regard as Shelley.
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Anne K. Mellor (nacida en 1941) es una distinguida profesora de literatura británica en UCLA. Está especializada en literatura del Romanticismo, historia cultural inglesa, feminismo, filosofía, historia del arte y estudios de género. Fue la editora del primer volumen de ensayos feministas de escritoras del Romancismo Romanticismo y Feminismo (1988). En 1999 Mellor recibió el Premio al Historiador Destacado otorgado por la Asociación Keats-Shelley....
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L'écrivain du Maine, comme beaucoup l'appellent, était prédestiné à devenir le meilleur écrivain d'horreur de l'Histoire. C'est ce que nous démontre sa carrière littéraire. En dépit des centaines de refus qu'il dut essuyer à l'époque de ses premières nouvelles et de ses premiers romans, le destin était écrit : le clou qui tenait les lettres de refus finit par tomber. Stephen King commença à écrire à l'âge de huit ans et il publierait...
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Thomas A. Underwood, a native of Texas, teaches at Harvard University. A frequent lecturer on Southern history and literature, he has also taught at Columbia, Boston, and Yale universities.
Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be...
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Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged with settling his brother's affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's house in southern New Hampshire was in a state of squalid, shocking disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, unheated and decrepit, and pitifully unlivable. An assembly worker and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed...
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Han pasado casi veinte años -de los cuales el profeta lleva quince en la eternidad, y aquí estoy otra vez sentado sobre las mismas posaderas, frente a la máquina original de Gonzalo que terminé por heredarle, preparando la edición de las Memorias de un presidiario nadaísta. Como en aquellos días, los ojos se me llenan de nubes al contemplar en perspectiva esta generación nadaísta que la vida se ha ido llevando en los cuernos. Ya empitonó...
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Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America.
Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey...
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