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Dry: A MemoirAutor: Augusten Burroughs
Taschenbuch, 10.02.2005
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Meine Literaturgeschichte des 20. JahrhundertsAutor: Frank Witzel
Gebundene Ausgabe, 28.03.2024
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the things i wish i could've told you: read: 3:05amAutor: Amelia Charlotte
Taschenbuch, 29.01.2022
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Selected Essays (Collins Classics)Autor: George Orwell
Taschenbuch, 25.05.2023
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Teacher Man: A MemoirAutor: Frank McCourt
Taschenbuch, 04.09.2006
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Von ganzem Herzen ... Die Briefe mit Illustrationen ihrer Zeit. So lebte die Schriftstellerin: ihre Korrespondenz mit engen Vertrauten und ihrer Schwester Cassandra Austen. Frauenleben im Regency.Autoren: Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett
Gebundene Ausgabe, 23.09.2021
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NovalisAutor: Hermann Kurzke
Taschenbuch, 23.02.2001
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Franz Kafka: Der ewige SohnAutor: Peter-André Alt
Gebundene Ausgabe, 24.08.2023
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy LifeHoward SounesTaschenbuchRare Book |
"Es ist schon ein eigenartiges Schreiben ..." Zum Werk von Dieter ForteTaschenbuch |
Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard BrautiganWilliam HjortsbergTaschenbuchUnusual book |
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha ChristieCharles OsborneTaschenbuchAgatha Christie's career spanned over 50 years and 80 books; given that she also wrote plays, poems and fragments of memoir, it is at times hard to see how she managed to pay so much attention to the fine details through which her detective stories both inform and misdirect. Charles Osborne's at times almost devotional biography does not obscure some of the problems-Christie persisted in a snide anti-Semitism until the end of her life and her politics were both naive and reactionary; and yet, he demonstrates time and time again, there is an emotional honesty in the best of her work that is rare in the purely puzzle-oriented detective story. Osborne devotes considerable ingenuity to telling us as much as possible about each and every one of her books and plays without giving endings away; he is knowledgeable and thoughtful about even the most obscure of her short stories. The main threads of the non-writing life are here too-the disastrous first marriage, the disappearance with almost certainly fake amnesia, the travels with the archaeologist who made her happy. This is a book which stresses the lively intelligence of its subject, and shares it. -< I> Roz Kaveney |
Country GirlEdna O'BrienTaschenbuchCountry Girl I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life. Full description |
Die halbe Wahrheit: Keine Autobiographie (detebe)W. Somerset MaughamTaschenbuchVierundsechzigjährig und längst berühmt, begibt sich W. Sommerset Maughamauf die Suche nach dem eigenen Standort und eröffnet seinen Lesern in diesem Buch zum erstenmal seine private Gedankenwelt. ' Die halbe Wahrheit' istein Spektrum jener Themen, die das Leben dieses ' Weltbestsellers, des Auflagenmillionärs' Der Spiegel geprägt haben Maughams Überlegungen zu Literatur, Kunst, Musik, Philosophie, Theater und Kino, seine Erfahrungen als Arzt, Spionund Schriftsteller. Es ist auch die Darstellung von Maughams Wesen als Künstler und die Deutung seines Lebensentwurfes. |
After Kathy Acker: A BiographyChris KrausTaschenbuch |
Sherlock Unlocked: Little-known Facts About the World's Greatest DetectiveDaniel SmithGebundene Ausgabe |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)Thomas De QuinceyTaschenbuchI took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours. In the Confessions De Quincey invents recreational drug taking, but he also details both the lurid nightmares that beset him in the depths of his addiction as well as his humiliatingly futile attempts to renounce the drug. Suspiria de Profundis centres on the deep afflictions of De Quincey's childhood, and examines the powerful and often paradoxical relationship between drugs and human creativity. In ' The English Mail-Coach', the tragedies of De Quincey's past are played out with horrifying repetitiveness against a backdrop of Britain as a Protestant and an imperial power. This edition presents De Quincey's finest essays in impassioned autobiography, together with three appendices that are highlighted by a wealth of manuscript material related to the three main texts. A B O U T T H E S E R I E S: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. |
Kafka's Last Trial: The Strange Case of a Literary LegacyBenjamin BalintTaschenbuch' A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century . . . An exquisitely human drama peopled with an eccentric cast of characters that beautifully evokes the early days of Israel, the sadness of the exiles, and the long shadow cast by the Holocaust. ' Financial Times When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writer's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod took them with him to Palestine in 1939, and devoted the rest of his life to editing and canonizing Kafka's work. By betraying his last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. Balint offers a gripping account of the contest for ownership that followed, ending in Israeli courts with a controversial trial - brimming with legal, ethical, and political dilemmas - that would determine the fate of Kafka's manuscripts. This is at once a biographical portrait of a literary genius, and the story of two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a hotly contested trial for the right to claim the literary legacy of one of our modern masters. In Kafka's Last Trial, Ben Balint tells the gripping and fascinating stories of Kafka's papers, of Germany and Israel, and of Kafka himself. ' A legal and philosophical black comedy of the first water, complete, like all the best adventure stories, with a physical treasure to be won or lost . . . Deep yet entertaining. ' Spectator |