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Les années Les années Annie Ernaux "Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the le… OL102389W
Дневник писателя Дневник писателя Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский A Writer's Diary (Russian: Дневник писателя; Dnevnik pisatelya) is a collection of non-fiction and fictional writings by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Taken from pieces written for a periodical which he founde… OL10419087W
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius A heartbreaking work of staggering genius Dave Eggers From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers … OL114661W
BRONTE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRONTE ENCYCLOPEDIA Robert Barnard A Bronte Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the… OL12999355W
Hazlitt Hazlitt R. L. Brett 40 p. : 22 cm OL1312288W
Venices Venices Paul Morand This autobiography is a poetic evocation of certain scenes of Morand's varied encounters & experiences. All this is filtered through the one constant in his life - the one place to which he would alw… OL1331587W
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf,Alison Bechdel After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941… OL1347349W
The shaking woman, or, a history of my nerves The shaking woman, or, a history of my nerves Siri Hustvedt Autobiographie. Essai OL13648986W
Casanova Casanova Ian Kelly In Casanova, noted author Ian Kelly traces the life of Giacomo Casanova, a man whose very name is synonymous with sensuality, seduction and sexual prowess. But Casanova was more than just a great lov… OL13696405W
Goddess of the market Goddess of the market Jennifer Burns Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets s… OL13771777W
A great unrecorded history A great unrecorded history Wendy Moffat With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual, though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy … OL13844329W
You've Had Your Time You've Had Your Time Anthony Burgess The second volume of the two-volume autobiography. The narrative begins in 1959, with the author’s return from Brunei and the start of a professional writing career and ends in 1982 with the cente… OL1386722W
Animal magnetism Animal magnetism Rita Mae Brown Rita Mae Brown's earliest memory is of the soothing purr of Mickey, her family's long-haired tiger cat, who curled up and claimed a spot in her crib. From there, a steady parade of cats, dogs, horses… OL14935927W
Closing Time Closing Time Joe Queenan A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of povertyJoe Queenans acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop cu… OL14951996W
The Faith of a Writer The Faith of a Writer Joyce Carol Oates 'One of America's greatest and most prolific contemporary literary figures draws on her years of experience with the craft to answer profound questions ranging in topic from inspiration, memory, and … OL14958386W
The Education of a British-Protected Child The Education of a British-Protected Child Chinua Achebe From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays--his first new book in more than twenty years.Chinua… OL14966094W
Theodor Seuss Geisel Theodor Seuss Geisel Donald E. Pease Dr. Seuss' infectious rhymes, his blue-tufted, strong-willed creatures, and his knack for pithy, roundabout plots have been entertaining children--and adults--for decades. And as biographer Donald Pe… OL15080733W
Reading Writers Reading Reading Writers Reading Danielle Schaub In candid text, accompanied by intimate photographs, 164 Canadian, Québécois and Franco-Canadian writers personally reflect on the transformative experiences of reading. With unguarded images, Daniel… OL15306938W
You Never Know You Never Know Claire Lorrimer "You Never Know", Claire Lorrimer's autobiography, spans the 20th century. A "Daily Mirror" reviewer described one of her many books as a 'slice of life'. "You Never Know" is the whole rich tapestry … OL15415802W
John Bunyan John Bunyan Kevin Charles Belmonte In his preface to Christian Encounters: John Bunyan, Kevin Belmonte speaks of his youthful intoxication with the Christian writer’s “simply wrought cadences” and “vividly conceived characters”, as we… OL15596901W
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