The New York Times–bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse shares tales of both hardship and success-and her unexpected love story.

Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The work was originally intended as a mere preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry. The work grew to a literary autobiography, including, together with many facts concerning his education and studies and his early literary adventures, an extended...

The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

A young woman's heady encounter with the new Russia, as she and the country thrill to their first taste of freedom It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Voronezh, a provincial town famous for its loamy black earth, a sense of lightheartedness-part fear, part exhilaration-pervades. The people conquer uncertainty, hunger, and -20 degree temperatures by drinking huge quantities of black-market vodka and reveling...

King Tony shocks with raw truth and strong opinions as he lures you on eye opening excursions through the flamboyant club scene of Atlanta, Georgia, Gritty streets of Durham, North Carolina and the glamorous Hip Hop industry. As the saying goes......"More money more problems." Sex, Drugs, Controversy and Violence are all part of the show... What really happened between Sean "Diddy" Combs and BMF affiliates? Notorious Biggie Smalls right hand man had...

This 1878 volume in the English Men of Letters series explores the life of Edward Gibbon, author of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. According to a contemporary review by Mark Pattison in the Academy, "Future numbers of the series may imitate, they cannot surpass, the present specimen." A splendid perspective on the life of an intriguing man.

En su Ulises, obra clave del modernismo, Joyce hizo añicos las convenciones realistas de la novela burguesa. Creaba un realismo completamente nuevo a partir de la psicología freudiana, el arte de Picasso, la física Einstein, la música de Stravinski, la filosofía de Wittgenstein, reflejando las maneras absolutamente novedosas en que la humanidad comenzaba a entenderse y a entender el mundo la rodea. El monólogo interior joyceano escandalizó,...

Nada podía hacer prever a Danae, estudiante de primer curso de Filosofía, que su vida iba a dar un giro inesperado con la visita de un viejo amigo de su difunto padre. Un secreto oculto durante años removerá su pasado y embarcará a la protagonista hacia la emblemática Universidad La luz de Saint Etiel. ¿Qué hechos velados se esconden tras los muros de La luz? ¿Será capaz Danae de armar el rompecabezas y enfrentarse a su pasado? ¿En quién...

Charles Haldeman (1931-83) was a man with unusual literary and artistic abilities who sought to identify his and his generation's mission in the world of the mid-twentieth century. Charles was born in the Depression; lived six months as a child in Hitler's Germany during the 1930s; grew up in a US Army town during World War II; and traveled, studied, and worked throughout the US, the Pacific, Europe, and Canada during the mid-twentieth century. He...

Este libro es el resultado de la lectura recurrente, entusiástica y arbitraria de las obras de un escritor que, a cuarenta años de su muerte, se deja leer con una frescura rara y que encuentra, mucho mejor que ningún otro de su tiempo, lectores cómplices: los famosos barojianos. Libro parcial y subjetivo, que quiere responder al porqué de esa fascinación por el aventurero pasivo, el peatón de las ciudades, el paciente y minucioso erudito que,...