A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Iréne Nèmirovsky (1903-1942). She succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a "foreign Jew" in France, she was deported in 1942 and died in Ausc…
Presents a cultural history of independent single women between the 1920s and the 1950s through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis
Portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf show how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contempo…
Breve fra den amerikanske humoristiske forfatter og tegner James Thurber (1894-1961)
Breve fra den amerikanske humoristiske forfatter og tegner James Thurber (1894-1961)
Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan. This biography provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life
Provides an exploration of Hugo's monumental body of work within the context of his dramatic life. Hugo wrestled with family tragedy and personal misgivings while being pulled into the turmoil of the 19th century, from the fall of Napoleon's Empire to the rise of France's Third …
Reviews Mark Twain's life, from his early journalism to his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, from the travelogue Life on the Mississippi to his final work, the sprawling, episodic Mark Twain's Autobiography and the public-speaking engagements that took him around the world
Original readings of Goethe's poetry, beginning with the poems written in his early youth. Alongside Goethe's work, the book analyzes the incidents of his life, including his love affairs and his meetings with the luminaries of his age
In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass dep…
