Category: Authors

By Marie-Thérèse Browne

ISBN-10: 1847530478

ISBN-13: 9781847530479

By M. K. Gandhi; Mahadev Desai

ISBN-10: 1775414051

ISBN-13: 9781775414056

In this autobiography, additionally titled The tale of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas okay. Gandhi recounts his existence from early life up until eventually 1921, noting that "my lifestyles from this element onward has been so public that there's rarely whatever approximately it that folks don't know." HarperCollins selected this paintings as one of many "100 most vital religious Books of the 20 th Century." The pursuit of fact was once a guideline for Gandhi. He states that it "is no longer my goal to try a true autobiography. I easily are looking to inform the tale of my a variety of experiments with fact, and as my existence contains not anything yet these experiments, it's precise that the tale will take the form of an autobiography." He additionally notes that this "will in fact comprise experiments with non-violence, celibacy and different ideas of behavior believed to be designated from truth."

By Anais Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

ISBN-10: 0156260263

ISBN-13: 9780156260268

By Ann McCulloch

ISBN-10: 1740761685

ISBN-13: 9781740761680

ISBN-10: 174076207X

ISBN-13: 9781740762076

The notebooks of A. D. wish are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet’s mind and personality. Shot via with threads of self-awareness and revelation, wish imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, forming them as a party of the enjoyment and terror of human lifestyles. Stripped of intimate revelation, the entries provide witness to Hope’s view that artwork is a superb strength within the construction of recent being and values, and a advisor for the behavior of our lives. trying to locate pathways during the maze of an highbrow lifestyles, this can be a profound and well timed contribution to Australia’s literary scholarship. Ann McCulloch’s research of this thematic choice of Hope’s notebooks finds him to be relentless in his experimentation with principles. Revealing the originality of his pondering and the stunning diversity of his studying and pursuits, this variation is a testomony to the mind of 1 of Australia’s towering literary figures.

By Donald E. Pease

ISBN-10: 0195323025

ISBN-13: 9780195323023

Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not just replaced the way in which young ones learn yet imagined the realm. And to imagine That I observed It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham,The Cat and the Hat, those and different classics have offered 1000s of thousands of copies and entertained young children and adults for many years.

After graduating from Dartmouth, Theodor Geisel used his abilities as an ad-man, political provocateur, and social satirist, steadily yet irrevocably turning to kid's books. Theodor Geisel tells the not likely tale of this awesome transformation. during this compact and engrossing biography, Donald Pease unearths the evolution of Dr. Seuss's inventive personality whereas providing a good appraisal of his existence. The publication additionally good points a lot of Dr. Seuss's lesser-known illustrations, together with collage drawings, insecticide advertisements, and wartime political cartoons--all of which supply a glimpse of his early inventive variety and the visible origins of the extra well-known creatures that later populated his kid's books.

As Pease strains the complete arc of Dr. Seuss's prolific profession, he combines shut textual readings of lots of Dr. Seuss's works with a special examine their genesis to shed new mild at the enduring legacy of America's favourite kid's ebook author.

By Pat Conroy

ISBN-10: 0553898183

ISBN-13: 9780553898187

NEW YORK occasions BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir approximately family members, love, loss, basketball—and existence itself—by the loved writer of The Prince of Tides and The nice Santini
 
in the course of one unforgettable season as a fort cadet, Pat Conroy turns into a part of a basketball workforce that's eventually destined to fail. And but for an army child who grew up at the movement, the Bulldogs offer a sanctuary from the chilly, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for changing into his personal man.
 
With the entire drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior yr as captain of the fort Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tricky disciplinarian trainer, the thrill of successful, and the hard-won classes of wasting. such a lot of all, he recounts how a gaggle of boys got here jointly as a group, taking part in a game that will develop into a metaphor for a guy whose spirit might by no means be defeated.
 
Praise for My wasting Season
 
“A impressive accomplishment, possibly the best e-book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington submit e-book World
 
“A splendidly wealthy memoir that you simply don’t need to be a activities fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle
 
“A memoir with all of the Conroy logos . . . Here’s considerable evidence that losers continuously inform the simplest stories.”—Newsweek
 
“In My wasting Season, Conroy opens his hands extensive to embody his tricky prior and virtually each person in it.”—New York day-by-day News
 
“Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald

From the Hardcover edition.

By Farah Mendlesohn

ISBN-10: 0415872898

ISBN-13: 9780415872898

First released in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

By Joseph Frank

ISBN-10: 0691115699

ISBN-13: 9780691115696

This 5th and ultimate quantity of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with an extraordinary intelligence and beauty the decade of the writer's lifestyles, the years within which he wrote A uncooked adolescence, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov.

Dostoevsky's ultimate years ultimately received him the common approval towards which he had regularly aspired. whereas describing his idiosyncratic dating to the Russian country, Frank additionally info Doestoevsky's carrying on with rivalries with Turgenev and Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's visual appeal on the Pushkin competition in June 1880, which preceded his loss of life by means of 365 days, marked the apotheosis of his career--and of his existence as a spokesman for the Russian spirit. There he brought his well-known speech on Pushkin sooner than an viewers stirred to a feverish emotional pitch: "Ours is universality attained no longer through the sword, yet by way of the strength of brotherhood and of our brotherly striving towards the reunification of mankind." this is often the Dostoevsky who has entered the patrimony of global literature, although he was once no longer regularly in a position to dwelling as much as such exalted ideals.

The writer's loss of life in St. Petersburg in January of 1881 concludes this extraordinary literary biography--one really necessary of Dostoevsky's genius and of the outstanding time and position within which he lived.

By Anna Beer

ISBN-10: 1596916788

ISBN-13: 9781596916784

By Henry Miller

ISBN-10: 0811224023

ISBN-13: 9780811224024

“A ideal expression of Miller’s ethical point of view in addition to one in all his amazing demonstrations of narrative ability. It offers a superb cinematic view of 2 indomitable egotists in lethal conflict.” ―The Nation

The satan in Henry Miller’s giant Sur paradise is Conrad Moricand: “A buddy of his Paris days, who, having been financed and taken over from Europe as an act of mercy by way of Mr. Miller, seems as exacting, sponging, evil, crafty and ungrateful a visitor as are available in modern literature. Mr. Miller has constantly been a amazing author of personality. Conrad Moricand is maybe his masterpiece. . . .A satan in Paradise is the paintings of an exceptional novelist manqué, a novelist who has no stricter feel of shape than the divine author. . . .Fresh and intoxicating, humorous and relocating. . .” ―The occasions Literary Supplement (London)