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about Mountain Living Summary A journey told in story and poem. A life trek from discontent and restlessness to commitment and discovery. You know, the 'way' we all should seek-the path to self-actualization. For me, my 'way' began with timeclock toil and its shackles of security and comfort. But, due to a quirk in life trajectory when I was fifteen, instead of an accountant or a tool-and-die maker, I became a poet. Well, this poet gave normalcy a...
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Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down' and described recently as a legend of literature, was born in Newbury in 1920 as the replacement for a baby brother who died in the great influenza epidemic of 1917-19. His mother was well over 40 at the time of his birth, and his was a solitary childhood spent in a large garden. Here he explains how his days spent watching bird, beetles and wild creatures around his home engendered in him a lifelong love...
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Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one novel, the mysterious and universally adored Wuthering Heights, she is widely acknowledged as the best poet of the Brontë sisters, and indeed as one of the greatest female poets of all time. Taking 20 of her most revealing poems, Nick Holland creates a unifying impression of Emily Brontë, showing her relationships with her family in a new light, and revealing how this terribly shy young woman could create such...
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Crusat ha escrito un ensayo tan documentado y pasional como el mismo material con el que ha trabajado: arrancando desde una particular historia no académica del arte biográfico, De Quincey, Aubrey, Diógenes Laercio, Boswell, Vidas de vidas traza un mapa complejo y apasionante de una de las tradiciones más subyugantes y originales del siglo xx: la "vida imaginaria". Tomando principalmente la obra de Marcel Schwob, Cristian Crusat logra dejar al...
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William Donaldson reveals all in a frank and often scurrilous memoir where past and present collide in a hilarious vision of his extraordinary life. The author charts his course from his public school childhood, through production of the celebrated 1960s satire Beyond the Fringe, a riotous lifestyle in the company of pop stars, actors, models, and sundry celebs-sometimes in a brothel in which he lived for a time in Chelsea-literary success and on...
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Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence. Innocence fades as he slowly becomes aware of himself and others, while scene after scene richly evokes the tastes, lifestyles, landscapes, objects, and manners of a lost Japan.
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In A Season in Hell, at the age of eighteen, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud predicted the rest of his life: 'My day is done; I'm leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs; lost climes will tan my skin.' Three years later, in 1876, he joined the Royal Army of the Dutch Indies as an infantryman and sailed for Java, where he promptly deserted and fled into the jungle. It was the most enigmatic passage in his life crowded with puzzles and contrarieties.
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Lluís Pasqual narra su relación con Federico García Lorca y se nos revela un extraordinario narrador. Un ensayo delicioso, de una sensibilidad y una fuerza narrativa excepcionales.
"Al igual que cuando uno se enamora por primera vez se está enamorando de alguien y del amor al mismo tiempo, García Lorca era para mí "el autor" y la Literatura: el descubrimiento de la compañía espiritual y de la capacidad de aventura que encierra un libro. Aunque...
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Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco. Sus siete novelas tienen una categoría literaria sorprendente en un campo en el que nadie, hasta aquel momento, esperaba calidad. Y es que Chandler era, ante todo, un escritor inteligente.
Despedido de su empleo como ejecutivo de una compañía petrolera por su afición a la bebida, el hombre que reveló el lado oscuro de la opulenta sociedad...
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¡Cuántas vidas malogradas¡ ¡Cuánto ha perdido la sociedad con los castigos, la incomprensión y el autoritarismo en la escuela oprimiendo así la creatividad y desarrollo del niño, surgiendo su infravaloración e impidiéndole desarrollar todo su potencial que tanta repercusión podría tener en el futuro para el ser humano. Que nadie pueda decir como la nieta de Margareth Mead Mi abuela quiso que yo tuviera una buena educación, por eso no...
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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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From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others.
In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener, a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her bestselling novel. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which she told in her novel “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”...
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"My Journey from Slate to iPhone" is an unforgettable memoir that is masterfully written as a soliloquy. The book shares the author's life and the knowledge she acquired from reading and observing others. Throughout the course of the book, readers will come across the inspiring lessons that the author learned from reading other books and discourses.
Also included are some of the poems that reflects her daily life, thoughts, and events. Readers also...
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Thomas A. Underwood, a native of Texas, teaches at Harvard University. A frequent lecturer on Southern history and literature, he has also taught at Columbia, Boston, and Yale universities.
Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be...
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“The Play of the Eyes” is the third volume in Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs.
Here, Canetti describes his young adult life as he tries to make it as a writer in Vienna during the 1930s and provides vivid accounts of the remarkable figures he meets along the way, usually in cafes, from Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, among others.
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L'écrivain du Maine, comme beaucoup l'appellent, était prédestiné à devenir le meilleur écrivain d'horreur de l'Histoire. C'est ce que nous démontre sa carrière littéraire. En dépit des centaines de refus qu'il dut essuyer à l'époque de ses premières nouvelles et de ses premiers romans, le destin était écrit : le clou qui tenait les lettres de refus finit par tomber. Stephen King commença à écrire à l'âge de huit ans et il publierait...
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Published in 1881, this volume of the English Men of Letters series was written by a man who had been both friend and editor to Thomas De Quincey. As such, it is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the life of one of Victorian England's most unusual writers, the author of ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” (1821).
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Virginia Woolf ha sido durante mucho tiempo objeto de críticas y ataques por su defensa de una "feminidad natural", pero en la actualidad las ideas plasmadas en sus novelas y ensayos inspiran a una nueva generación de lectores feministas que aspiran a sumergirse en la problemática cuestión del género y de la compatibilidad entre hombres y mujeres. Woolf luchó, en buena parte sin éxito, por explicar la naturaleza de sus necesidades como mujer,...
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Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America.
Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey...
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) wrote vivid accounts about life in New Orleans, the West Indies, and Japan. This appreciative 1908 biography discusses his birth to an Irish father and Greek mother, his work and travels, and the impact of poor eyesight on this "poet of myopia." Gould writes, "Of Lafcadio Hearn there has been, and will be, no excuse for any biography whatever. A properly edited volume of his letters, and... development of his imaginative...
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