From the Back Cover: A true classic of modern literature-and a forerunner of the psychologically driven fiction of Kafka, Camus, and Saramago. Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets of Christiana (now Oslo), struggling on the edge of starvation while trying to sell his articles to the local newspaper. As the hunger overtakes his body and his mind, the writer slides inexorably into paranoia and despair. The descent into madness...

Reveals the personal stories behind the author's written works, describing her early years in a Rhode Island mill town and the books that shaped her love of literature, her political views, and her travel ambitions. "Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn't foster a love of literature, Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the companionship of books. She learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring...

"The Vanderpump Rules provocateur opens up about her rocky road to fame and sobriety in this collection of humorous and brutally honest essays"--

This edition of Darwin's life story restores previously censored passages on religion and the scientist's opinions of his contemporaries. Darwin wrote his autobiography in 1876, at the age of sixty-seven, hoping it would prove interesting to his children and grandchildren. Preparing the book for a wider audience, his family initially sought to protect his legacy by removing passages they found too personal or controversial. This restored edition,...

"The Grand Canyon is wild and sublime, a thing of mystery and wonder, a place to grip the heart of a man and unleash his wild spirit. Follow Zane Grey as he recounts his true adventure pursuing lions in the canyon, roping them, dragging them from trees, and engaging their snarling ferocity in an encounter with the wilderness not even Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett ever attempted"

Una niña secuestrada, no por fuerzas parapoliciales o delincuentes, sino por sus abuelos. Con una distancia que dosifica sabiamente el dolor y una gracia maliciosa transformada en invención verbal, la autora, poeta y psicoanalista, cuenta su infancia de venturosa heredera a la que todo se le ha dado, salvo cariño. La madre, "colmo de la paquetería drogada", vive tendida en su cama con baldaquín, tomando whisky, enamorándose de gigantes ciegos...

There is a river of metaphor running in the unconscious mind of each of us that holds all the insight into our life's meaning we will ever need. This collection of slightly fictionalized vignettes, these clippings stored in the envelope of Ilana Haley's memory, is this river flowing within Ilana. And it is the significance of this that lends this book so much energy, so much punch when we read through these pages of her life. Each character in this...

This delightful eBook presents seven pieces from the rich heritage of Lafcadio Hearn-one of the first and most preeminent scholars to travel to and write about Japan. They are a natural outgrowth of Hearn's peerless philosophy: "If you have any feeling-no matter what-strongly latent in the mind (even only a haunting sadness or a mysterious joy), you may be sure that it is expressible." Hearn's language, his incomparable prose, ripened and mellowed...

On this wintry December night in 1893, Millie had lots of time to think. His wife, Mina, was with child; and tonight looked like the baby would arrive. His first child was a girl named Blanche, who was four years old. He was truly hoping for a boy, even knowing that Mina and Blanche both wanted a girl. Millie had thought back to the time when he and his family came to Michigan from Canada in the late 1870s. He reminisced about events and adventures...

Twenty years isn't enough to erase the sins of the past -- but the future is even more terrifying [...] In 1997, Eve Foster's daughter, Kelsey, runs away to New Mexico and vanishes without a trace. Eve is convinced that she's the victim of a serial killer who's been hunting women in the region -- but Kelsey's body is never found. Years later, Eve dies, leaving everything to her adopted twin daughters. The majority of the wealthy estate in Vermont...