Procesul lui Socrate - Claude Mosse

Camera Girl

A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a

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Claude Debussy - Anamaria Calin

&bdquoMusicien francais&rdquo de la cumpana secolelor XIX si XX, Claude Debussy aureoleaza epoca de avant renascentist a muzicii franceze din secolul al XIX-lea, deschizandu-i astfel

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Afloat

Danie Couchman grew up on the move, her family never staying still long enough for her to say where she's from. At twenty-five, and living

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My Generation

'Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of public life. Here...

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A book of secrets

The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second

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Franz Joseph si Sisi. Datoria si rebeliunea - Jean des Cars

Franz Joseph si Sisi. Vor ramane pentru eternitate un cuplu legendar, printre cele mai admirate din toate timpurile. Au fost uniti la bine si la

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Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun

In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have

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Aaronsohn's Maps

Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at

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Before Scarlett

Originally published: Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, c2000.

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Gustave Flaubert (Brief Lives)

Serving as a perfect introduction to this well-known French writer, Flaubert scholar Meryl Tyers’ work covers the remarkable life of the renowned author of Madame

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James Monroe

James Monroe served as the centre of abolition and reform in the American West when he attended Oberlin College, Ohio, in the 19th century. This

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Salinger

J.D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most elusive. After making his mark on the American

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Inside a Pearl

The celebrated author of The Flâneur traces his relocation to 1983 Paris in spite of his unfamiliarity with the language and culture, tracing how he

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Touch and Go

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War

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The Murray Edwards Duse Collection

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that

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John Steinbeck

Examines Steinbeck's life and work and analyzes his 'The Grapes of Wrath.'

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Other Spaces, Other Times

Capturing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of science fiction, this unique autobiography by Robert Silverberg shows how famous stories in this genre were concei...

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The Old Man and the Swamp

I have nothing against snakes, provided that they’re hundreds of miles away from me. And I have nothing against my dad, given the same set

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Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common

Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...

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Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton

The first modern biography of this notable politician 'Mach's detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressiv...

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Running the Voodoo Down

RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN

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An Army of Ex-lovers : My Life at the 'Gay Community News'

This is a vivid, funny portrait of the four tumultuous years a young editor spent working in the gay press. Boston's weekly 'Gay Community News'

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Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments

Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses

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The late child and other animals

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the

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Why I Left America And Other Essays

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

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My Friend, Julia Lathrop

As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for

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Langston Hughes

A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

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The Rat That Got Away : A Bronx Memoir

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional

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Lenin's Laureate Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Drawing on extensive archival research and the author's own discussions with Alferov, Lenin's Laureate offers a unique account of Soviet science, presented against the ba...

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The Poet and the King

The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as 'the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of

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Alger Hiss

Documents the story of a State Department official charged with spying for the Soviets, arguing the case was shaped by missed chances and poor judgments,

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The Brother

'The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003?including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet

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The Poisoner

Taking a fresh look at the infamous doctor's life and disputed crimes, and drawing on previously undiscovered letters and new forensic evidence, this first major

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O the clear moment

The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with

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Forget About Today

Forget About Today shows a side of Bob Dylan that most people - from fans to skeptics - have never seen. Rather than another gossipy

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Regina Ana a României

Acum, la șapte zile de la însoțirea mamei mele, Regina Ana, pe ultimul său drum, doresc să vă adresez din inimă, fiecăruia dintre cei care

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A Daughter of the Middle Border

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the sequel to Garland's autobiography A Son of the Middle Border.

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Edward Albee

In 1960, Edward Albee electrified the theater world with the American premiere of The Zoo Story, and followed it two years later with his extraordinary

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Wildflower

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences she’s had throughout her life.

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Dickens and Thackeray

Attitudes toward punishment and forgiveness in English society of the nineteenth century came, for the most part, out of Christianity. In actual experience the ideal

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Looking for Chengdu

Memoir of the author's trips to the Sichuan Province of China during the late 1980s. Her intention was to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese

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A Numerate Life

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky 'meta-memoir' raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What

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Whiskey breakfast

Whiskey Breakfast is Lindberg’s captivating tale of life as a first-generation baby-boomer Swedish American, caught between the customs of a land he had never been

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All Man!

Hemingway as viewed through the lens of men's pulp magazines During the 1950s, Hemingway was in two plane crashes, won a Nobel Prize, published a

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Bear Island

'Weaving together strands of myth, memory, legend, and history, Bear Island lyrically conveys a historical event that has been forgotten not only by the majority

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Jacob Adler

(Applause Books). Jacob Adler, with his performances in the Yiddish King Lear , Uriel Acosta and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , became first

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Nested scrolls

'Nested Scrolls 'reveals the true-life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter 'Rudy' Rucker mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with...

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Pearl

Pearl describes a bereft father mourning the loss of his precious 'Perle.' Returning to the garden where she first disappeared, he observes the verdant shades

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SHAKESPEARE THEFTS

Published in 1623, the 750 copies of the first edition of William Shakespeare's collected works, known as the First Folio, has been sought after relentlessly

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Heart Songs and Other Stories

Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country.

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Midnight's gate =

Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square.'Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate.'Bei Dao Bei Dao

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Rose Kennedy

'An insightful portrait of this paradoxical woman.' —People In this definitive biography—the first to draw on an invaluable cache of newly released diaries and letters—pr...

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Translation and the Transmission of Culture Between 1300 and 1600

Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600 is a companion volume to Medieval Translators and their Craft (1989) and, like Medieval Translators,

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An Exclusive Love: A Memoir

The author describes the unconventional lives of her grandparents, from surviving the Holocaust and fleeing Budapest during the uprising of 1956 to their complex personal...

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Scriitori romani notorii. Viata, activitatea, opera - Angela Lungu, Cristina Duca

Lucrarea ofera informatii despre viata, activitatea si opera celor mai de baza reprezentanti ai spiritualitatii roma­ne (in numar de 41). Sintezele propuse la sfarsitul cartii

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Molly's Game

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world – an insider’s story of excess and

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Max Perkins

A thirtieth anniversary edition of the National Book Award-winning biography traces the life of the influential book editor who nurtured the literary talents of such

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Nazi Thug To British Mayor Brunos Story

This powerful account of one man's transformation from fanatical Hitler Youth member to respected British mayor provides a fascinating portrayal of German civil and milit...

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Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West

Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth century literary scene. A passionate suffragist, socialist, fiercely intelligent, Rebecca West began her career as a

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Arm the Spirit

In June 1985, Diana Block, her two-week-old son and five fellow revolutionaries fled LA after finding a surveillance device in their car. So began a

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