Catálogo de libros: Biografía: literaria

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  • Improvisations of Empire
    Matthew Shum
    ’Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor. ...
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    57,50 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume XI
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    8,22 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume VI
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    10,68 €

  • Michael Gold
    Patrick Chura
    An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years. ...
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    23,46 €

  • Super Schoolmaster
    David Ben-Merre / Robert Scholes
    Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career. ...
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    42,19 €

  • Writing in Ice
    Michael Ridpath
    If you had to choose a new location for a crime series, where would you look? Michael Ridpath had to do just that. He chose Iceland, a country of fjords, glaciers and volcanoes, of long, manic summer days and long, sinister winter evenings, a place where everyone is on Facebook and everyone’s grandmother has spoken to an elf.This is his account of researching the country: the b...
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    11,15 €

  • Sara Paretsky
    Cynthia Hamilton / Cynthia S. Hamilton / Cynthia SHamilton
    This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. ...
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    37,16 €

  • Dorothy L Sayers
    Colin Duriez
    Dorothy L. Sayers was a woman of contrastsA strong Christian, she had a baby - out of wedlock- by a man she did not love. Possessing a fierce intellect, she translated Dante, and also created one of the most popular fictional detectives ever in Lord Peter Wimsey. Drawing on material often difficult to access, particularly her collected letters, Colin Duriez reassesses Sayers’ l...
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    13,73 €

  • Hồi Tưởng
    Dung Tu
    Lời giới thiệu quyển sách HỒI TƯỞNG của nhà văn Từ DungPhạm Văn Kỳ Thanh Tôi đã đọc nhiều lần tác phẩm 'Hồi Tưởng' của nhà văn Từ Dung. Một bút ký có sức cuốn hút lạ kỳ. Đây là tự truyện của một Nghệ Sĩ, nhà Giáo Dục và cũng là một nhà văn 'tiểu thư', hậu duệ Tự Lực Văn Đoàn.Bút pháp của Từ Dung ở đây dùng để viết truyện phim hơn là tiểu thuyết. Độc giả không thấy một bố cục cổ...
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    37,35 €

  • Walking in the Shade
    Doris Lessing
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    15,82 €

  • Conversations with Steve Erickson
    Matthew Luter
    Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving prestigious honors, Erickson has remained a subterranean literary figure, receiving effusive praise from his fans, befuddled or cautious assessments from reviewers, and scant s...
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    158,16 €

  • Conversations with Steve Erickson
    Matthew Luter
    Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving prestigious honors, Erickson has remained a subterranean literary figure, receiving effusive praise from his fans, befuddled or cautious assessments from reviewers, and scant s...
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    42,70 €

  • Byron
    Nigel Patten
    In 1823, Lord Byron rented the Casa Saluzzo at Albaro in the hills east of Genoa, Italy. The poet shared the 16th-century palazzo with his mistress, Teresa Giuccioli, her brother, and their exiled father, Count Gamba.His neighbors were Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, whose poet husband had recently drowned; Leigh Hunt, the critic and editor; and Edward Trelawney, a Co...
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    12,13 €

  • The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
    Víctor Hugo
    The Memoirs of Victor Hugo (1899) is an autobiographical work by Victor Hugo. Assembled from diaries and manuscripts left behind by the author following his death in 1895, the Memoirs are as much a record of a life as they are a portrait of nineteenth century France. Told from the perspective of a supremely gifted artist whose command of language is matched only by his commitme...
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    12,16 €

  • Life and Letters of Toru Dutt
    Toru Dutt
    Life and Letters of Toru Dutt (1921) is a biography of Toru Dutt. Comprising biographical sections by scholar Harihar Das, selections from her many letters, and commentary on her novels and translations, Life and Letters of Toru Dutt is an invaluable resource for information on a pioneering figure in Indian history and Bengali literature. Born in Calcutta to a family of Bengali...
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    15,08 €

  • Tolstoy As Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoyevsky
    Dmitry Merezhkovsky
    Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky (1901) is a work of literary criticism by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity’s fulfillment in twentieth century humanity. In this collection of es...
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    11,34 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume VIII
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    7,90 €

  • Narrative of William W. Brown
    William Wells Brown
    Originally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately led to his freedom. It’s a captivating tale and testament to the perseverance and strength of the human spirit. In this narrative, William W. Brown presents the true story of his birth and life as an enslaved African American. He prov...
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    6,67 €

  • Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter
    Josephine Brown
    Josephine Brown presents a detailed biography of her father, William Wells Brown, who was born on a plantation but escaped to become a successful abolitionist. Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter is a viable supplement to the original Narrative of William W. Brown: A Fugitive Slave Biography of an American Bondman by His Daughter gives new insight into William Well...
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    7,87 €

  • Autobiography of Mark Twain
    Mark Twain
    Autobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his life, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is a series of brief reflections on 74 years of fame, hard work, and adventure by an icon of American literature. Originally serialized in the North American Review, the United States’ oldest litera...
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    18,00 €

  • Charlotte Bronte Novels
    Charlotte Brontë
    Binding : Paperback/ 500 pagesBook Size : 8.5 x 11Book Interior : Black & WhitePaper Type : 70 GSM Cream paperBook Cover : Matte FinishThis volume encloses the author’s autobiography as the novel JANE EYRE and another novel VILLETTE. ...
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    43,78 €

  • The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
    Sir Walter Scott / Walter Sir Scott
    Originally published in 1890, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott spans seven eventful years of the author’s life where he attempts to reclaim his good standing. It’s a revealing look at the highs and lows of one of the greatest novelists of all-time.The Journal of Sir Walter Scott starts in 1825 when the author is 54 years old. It recounts a seven-year stretch of financial strain ...
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    26,94 €

  • Notes From the Gallows Reportáž, psaná na oprátce
    David Grunwald / Julius Fučík
    Julius Fučik ('Fuchik') (1903 - 1943) wrote this book under the shadow of the Nazi hangman’s noose. The very form of the manuscript testifies to the invincible courage and resourcefulness of the author. It consists of penciled slips of paper smuggled one by one, with the aid of a sympathetic Czech guard, from the Gestapo prison at Pankrác, Prague. Fuchik, a man scornful of self...
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    13,80 €

  • The Most Reluctant Convert
    David C. Downing / David CDowning
    In his teens, a young man wrote, ''I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.'' After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, ''I never sank so low as to pray.'' To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, ''You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!'' This young man was C. S. Lewis, the ''foul-mouthed atheist'' who would become...
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    22,17 €

  • The Most Reluctant Convert
    David C. Downing / David CDowning
    In his teens, a young man wrote, ''I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.'' After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, ''I never sank so low as to pray.'' To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, ''You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!'' This young man was C. S. Lewis, the ''foul-mouthed atheist'' who would become...
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    39,27 €

  • Please Plant This Book Coast To Coast
    Susan Kay Anderson
    This book is the result of my meeting Virginia Brautigan Aste and sitting down and interviewing her over the course of six years. Our conversations continued as we built a friendship at our teaching jobs at a small school in Pahoa, Hawaii and by meeting for breakfast at the local cafe. What is in this book are essays, photographs, and Virginia’s story. Her narrative highlights ...
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    28,29 €

  • On Thomas Keneally
    Stan Grant
    ’Keneally’s caricature of a self-loathing Jim­mie Blacksmith is a lost opportunity to explore the complex ways that Aboriginal people … were pushing against a white world that would not accept them for who they were; that would not see them as equal; that, in truth, would not see them as human.’ Acclaimed journalist Stan Grant weaves literary criticism, philosophy and memoi...
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    27,98 €

  • I Can Read It All by Myself
    Paul V Allen
    In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children’s classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn’t stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to...
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    49,67 €

  • I Can Read It All by Myself
    Paul V Allen
    In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children’s classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn’t stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to...
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    157,83 €

  • Ghosts of the Chit-Chat
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson / M. R. James / MRJames
    'Such things may have attached to them heaven knows what spooks and spirits.' - The IkonOn the evening of Saturday, 28 October 1893, Cambridge University’s Chit-Chat Club convened its 601st meeting. Ten members and one guest gathered in the rooms of Montague Rhodes James, the Junior Dean of King’s College, and listened - with increasing absorption one suspects - as their host r...
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    22,33 €


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