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We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail--the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous...
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The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behavior, and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past, and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate. This book, written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club,...
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Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing. In “Black Rock Coffin-Makers,” two men ready to kill over ownership of a ranch get more than they bargain for when a stranger is caught in the crossfire. And in “Four Card Draw,” Allen Ring wins a ranch in a poker game, only...
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New Grub Street (1891) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by his own struggles as a working writer and unhappily married man, Gissing crafts a tale of talent, ambition, and the strain placed on romance by financial need. New Grub Street poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly relevant for our own times. In 18th century London, Grub Street was where the desperate writer went once their dreams of...
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Campo de sangre forma parte del extenso y fascinante ciclo narrativo que Aub dedicó a la Guerra Civil, El laberinto mágico. Por la cronología de los hechos narrados constituye la tercera novela de este (recordemos que el ciclo incluye textos de otros géneros), pero se trata de la segunda si atendemos a las fechas de publicación y sobre todo composición, ya que trabaja sobre ideas que comienza a gestar a finales del conflicto. La cercanía en...
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Young's novel of war coming to the Natchez region of Mississippi has long been considered one of the best of Civil War novels. "If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life."-New York Times. Southern Classics Series.
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Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar tells the story of the last year in the life of Alexander Griboyedov, a diplomat and playwright in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I. The novel takes him from bein,g feted in St Petersburg in March 1828, as the successful negotiator of a peace treaty with Persia, through his return to Persia as the "Vazir-Mukhtar" (Minister Plenipotentiary) and his death at the hands of a Tehran mob in January 1829.
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Since its publication in the late 1950s, Mountains Painted with Turmeric has struck a chord in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Nepali readers. Set in the hills of far eastern Nepal, the novel offers readers a window into the lives of the people by depicting in subtle detail the stark realities of village life. Carefully translated from the original text, Mountains Painted with Turmeric tells the story of a peasant farmer named Dhané (which...
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare...
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“These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales”, was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider...
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An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling “Wolf Hall” trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, “The Mirror and the Light”.
“Wolf Hall Companion” gives an historian's view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one of the most powerful men of the Tudor age and the central character in Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy.
Covering the key court and political characters from the books, this companion guide...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Great story of human courage and dedication recounted in autobiography of a remarkable woman: the magical moment when Miss Keller first recognizes the connection between words and objects, her joy at learning how to speak, friendships with notable figures, her education at Radcliffe and an extraordinary relationship with her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan. An unforgettable portrait of one of the 20th century's outstanding women.
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A couple in Washington, DC, is torn apart when a friend is accused of treason Jane and David Graham live upper-middle-class lives in mid-century Washington, DC. Jane minds the home with the help of a fulltime maid, and David works at the Treasury Department. But when the FBI visits their house one evening to ask questions about a friend's political beliefs, the answers the two give separately cause them both to wonder whether they truly know each...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Dans le Carnet de notes des Mémoires d'Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar écrit : « Je me suis plu à faire et refaire ce portrait d'un homme presque sage. »
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Mémoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette...
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Continuing the success of the Pocket Guide series, Andrew Taylors Pocket Guide to Poets and Poetry starts with a history of poetry, setting the poets and their work in the context of their time and the influence of their work including political agenda, festivities and historical celebrations and their chosen genre. The poets are reviewed with their individual biographies, including their genre and best works. A must for everyone interested in poetry,...
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El poderoso Rey Sol no se rinde jamás. Pero el autor nos ofrece otro retrato: el de un príncipe que quería ejercer un oficio, el de jefe de Estado. Es el rey más famoso del panteón nacional francés, y es también una marca comercial, con Versalles. Escribir su vida es un desafío para el historiador, ya que el individuo desaparece tras el mito del monarca absoluto.
Pero es posible hablar de otro Luis XIV, más cercano y real. Recorrer los pasillos...
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Did you know Shakespeare introduced thousands of words into the English language, amongst them alligator, eyeball and swagger? Do you know what unusual item he left to his wife in his will? Have you heard of the conspiracy theory that suggests Shakespeare didn't write the plays we attribute to him today? This fascinating book contains over one hundred facts about William Shakespeare, organised into categories for easy reading. Whether you are studying...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Avec Le Conseil d'Égypte, publié en 1963, l'écrivain sicilien Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) vient confirmer la singularité de sa poétique. Comme son premier livre Les Paroisses de Regalpetra (1956), que suit 1848 — une longue nouvelle ouvrant le volume des Oncles de Sicile (1960) —, ce récit se penche sur l'histoire tourmentée de son île natale.
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