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Près de deux cents romans, huit mille personnages cadrés dans mille huit cents lieux de par le monde, dix mille rencontres féminines, trois mille pages de souvenirs...Ces chiffres ne signifient rien si on ne raconte pas comment le garçonnet, puis le jeune journaliste de Liège est devenu l'un des romanciers les plus lus, traduits et adaptés à l'écran, ni comment il s'est fait le créateur de Maigret et de cette atmosphère si caractéristique...
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Viaje al país de los profetas es el libro más desconocido de uno de los escritores más conocidos de Chile. Solo tuvo una edición, en septiembre de 1969, y ni siquiera se publicó en nuestro país, sino en Argentina. Nunca reeditado hasta ahora, es un testimonio entusiasta del Israel de los kibutz, en los que Manuel Rojas creyó ver, al menos parcialmente, la utopía alcanzada mediante el trabajo colectivo: «Una realización en pequeño del sueño...
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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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This book tells the autobiography of my father, his years in Haiti, and his transition as an immigrant in foreign lands. His personal account mirrors the daily struggles one may face under the Duvaliers' regimes in the sixties through the mid of eighties to cultural shock and identity in other countries. Growing up, he experiences a lot of different emotions regarding his father's absence from the home along with dealing with his sudden death that...
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Enfermé dans un mariage malheureux avec une épouse alcoolique et manipulatrice, le personnage central de cette histoire est injustement accusé de faits qu'il défend avec vigueur devant la justice. Face à cette épreuve dévastatrice, il doit faire un choix déchirant : succomber au désespoir ou se lancer dans une lutte acharnée. Dans ce témoignage, il relate son combat quotidien pour la vérité et l'équité.
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In September 1943, New Zealand writer John Mulgan was parachuted by the British Special Services (SOE) into remote mountain terrain in the centre of Nazi-occupied Greece, where he worked with the left-wing resistance to facilitate some of WW2' s most successful episodes of guerrilla warfare. This experience shaped his leftist politics in critical ways, but with the Cold War climate taking over, Mulgan' s allegiance was torn between the andartes...
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Get the Summary of Claire Dederer's Monsters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Claire Dederer grapples with the moral dilemma of appreciating art created by morally reprehensible individuals. She reflects on the personal impact of the Access Hollywood tape and the #MeToo movement, which prompted her to reconsider her admiration for Woody Allen's work in light of the allegations against him. Dederer revisits "Annie...
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Una verdadera joya en la que Henry Miller viaja de la literatura a la vida y viceversa. El mapa mental de uno de los genios más sobresalientes del siglo XX. Indispensable.
De la literatura a la vida y de la vida a la literatura, estas cartas a Michael Fraenkel, escritas entre 1935 y 1938, constituyen uno de los destellos de inteligencia más deslumbrantes del autor de Sexus.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Supreme ConsecrationThe Nobel Prize in Literature represents the highest distinction a writer can aspire to, elevating its laureates to the ranks of the world's great literary geniuses. Established according to the will of the Swedish industrialist, engineer, and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, this international award has been given annually since 1901 by the Swedish Academy, as a way to recognize a literary work that...
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'This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.' – Daisy Dunn, The Times
'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.' – Mark Amory, The Spectator
'At a rollicking pace, it follows the post-Oxford careers of all the main Hypocrites … Waugh addicts will wish to add it to their shelves.' – A.N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
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Per the New World Encyclopedia, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh),(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King of Alba) from 1040 until his death. He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and the many works it has inspired, although the play is historically inaccurate. Shakespeare' Macbeth immortalized the Scottish king but as a dark, tormented character driven...
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Todas las cosas y ninguna es un recorrido por la huella que Fernando Molano Vargas dejó en la sensibilidad de lectoras y lectores de, a esta altura, varias generaciones. Como todo recorrido, es más el mapa de una geografía, la de Bogotá especialmente, que una biografía. Pero no deja de ser una historia. Hay, aquí y allá, apuntes biográficos de Molano Vargas y de sus amistades, y también está contada la suerte que siguieron sus escritos.
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I use an autobiographical approach to unpack a cryptographical interpretation or content analysis of the first four chapters of the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Scriptures. This analysis is designed to present the semiotic and hermeneutical underpinnings of the Scriptures in raw everyday terms avoiding the murkier waters of those studies which divert believers away from the discussion of specific immoral behavior. Behavior which God purposed...
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Un ensayo reivindicativo sobre la experiencia singular de pasear siendo mujer.
El flâneur nació en el París del siglo XIX. Su hábitat natural eran los bulevares y las galerías de la ciudad. "La multitud es su dominio, como el aire es el del pájaro, como el agua el del pez", escribió Charles Baudelaire. El flâneur es un hombre ocioso que pasea y observa a la vez, pero desde la distancia: no se involucra. Sin embargo, para Baudelaire la flâneuse...
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The beloved bestselling autobiography of an English boyhood Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War. The cottage his mother had rented for three and sixpence a week had neither running water nor electricity, but it was surrounded by a lovely half-acre garden and, most importantly, it was big enough for the seven children in her...
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Lord Byron is the greatest writer you've never read.The biographer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis tells the story of Britain's most glamorous and most tortured writer.He was rich and handsome. He was a swimmer and a poet. He loved both sexes. In his work he made a queer love life both thrilling and universal.He was born with a deformed right foot. An emotional hurt dating back to abuse when he was a boy also affected the man he became. But his hand...
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"…a highly readable and interesting book…Through personal stories and anecdotes, all giving vivid pictures of social history, the writer guides us through historical events that changed the world. Some of it is sad, but much of it is amusing, all full of colour…I would highly recommend it." Anna Grayson
Once upon a time, a shy kid from Skye almost drowned in nostalgia as he sat in the corner of a high-ceilinged room listening to fabulous tales...
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"A cien años de su nacimiento, Juan José Arreola, ese escritor excéntrico con capa y cabellos alborotados que aparecía en televisión y hacía gala de un inusual talento, sigue considerándose una de las grandes plumas que ha tenido nuestro país.
Mucho se ha dicho de él y, sin embargo, aún no lo sabemos todo. Y este libro es la prueba de ello. Aquí se reúnen siete escritores para decirnos algo más sobre Arreola y su mundo -las letras, la...
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Œuvre à caractère autobiographique; Les échos de la mémoire. Une enfance palestinienne à Jérusalem évoque, avec l'occupation britannique en toile de fond, de multiples souvenirs; campe d'intimes portraits de famille et nous ramène sur des lieux d'enchantement et de rébellion. Cet ouvrage, véritable lettre d'amour à Jérusalem, pose un regard singulier sur la ville. C'était avant le déracinement des Palestiniens de 1948, où se ctoyaient...
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