"The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class...

"When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not...

Una colección de historias cortas llenas de valores morales y valiosas lecciones de vida. Aunque se centra en las tradiciones y estilos de vida de la gente de una pequeña ciudad siciliana, este libro cubre una variedad de sensaciones basadas en creencias religiosas, mitos, leyendas tradicionales, devoción, fuerza y valor, todas las características que a menudo damos por sentadas o que son algo descuidado en las ciudades más modernas. Se trata...

Tono-Bungay, published in 1909, is a semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells. Though it has some fantastical and absurdist elements, it is a realist novel rather than one of Well’s “scientific romances.”

The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of George Ponderevo, the son of the housekeeper at a large estate. He is made to feel

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Taken from the famous literary biography series English Men of Letters, this is a biography of the 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales.

A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences. Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence...

This vintage book (first published in 1948) contains a short biography of Mark Twain, with a wonderful selection of humourous and often aphoristic quotations taken from his writings. This concise and easy-to-digest text is full of interesting and entertaining information concerning Mr. Twain, and is highly recommended for those with an interest in his life and mind. A profusely illustrated antiquarian volume, this book is not to be missed by the discerning...

À travers ce récit à la fois biographique, initiatique et anecdotique, Jean-François Baril nous montre une facette plus humaine et intime de sa personnalité. Usant d'humour et de profondeur, il présente un message qui saura rejoindre chacun d'entre nous. Influences est en effet non seulement l'histoire de l'humoriste et animateur que nous connaissons si bien, mais celle de toute une population qui se souvient, se questionne parfois, et cherche...

Este libro es el resultado de varias explicaciones que se cruzan e interpelan a distintos agentes. El principal es la chica que aparece ya desde el primer capítulo. Se trata de la aspiración a un amor catártico que busca la redención. Cómo aparece, qué sucede en el encuentro y qué pasa tras nuestra separación buscar ser el vehículo del resto de elementos. La segunda explicación pretende ser una réplica al nudo central de los argumentos...

"Tras su vivencia en territorios de conflicto, el médico y periodista Víctor de Currea-Lugo realizó una exhaustiva revisión de lo que ocurre en Palestina, Pakistán, Kurdistán el Estado Islámico, Afganistán, Sudán, Sahara Occidental, Siria y Etiopía, la cual le da forma al libro Fanatismos, mitos y fusiles. Para pensar las guerras del siglo XXI que no se concentra en analizar desde afuera los diversos rostros y las dinámicas de los conflictos...