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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of Graham Greene Volume 1
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The Life of Graham Greene Volume 1


Norman Sherry


Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable. Nonetheless, he took the surprising step of allowing Norman Sherry complete access to letter and diaries, and gave his...

Parution : 2016-05-26
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Brontës: A Life in Letters
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The Brontës: A Life in Letters


Juliet Barker


The Brontë story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontës themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother,...

Parution : 2016-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Willa Cather
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Willa Cather


Hermoine Lee


A masterly biography of one of America's most important twentieth century writers, written by acclaimed biographer Hermione Lee. 'The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page' HILARY MANTEL 'Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer...

Parution : 2016-04-21
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Virago
Collection : Virago Modern Classics
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Télécharger le livre :  Written Lives
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Written Lives


Javier Marías


In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors...

Parution : 2016-03-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  How To Be a Medieval Woman
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How To Be a Medieval Woman


Margery Kempe , Barry Windeatt


'And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, "Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman." 'Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went - including...

Parution : 2016-03-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  When I Was Old
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When I Was Old


Georges Simenon


'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly...

Parution : 2016-02-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Girl from the Fiction Department
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The Girl from the Fiction Department


Hilary Spurling


Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony PowellJust three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took a new wife. Sonia Brownell was...

Parution : 2016-01-28
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh


Kathryn Aalto


Loved Goodbye Christopher Robin? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories. Delve into the home of the world’s most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their...

Parution : 2015-10-15
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Timber Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Pedigree
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Pedigree


Patrick Modiano , Mark Polizzotti


"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete...

Parution : 2015-09-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Maclehose Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies
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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies


Jay Parini


An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the...

Parution : 2015-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Kid Gloves
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Kid Gloves


Adam Mars-Jones


NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care....

Parution : 2015-08-27
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of Daniel Defoe
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The Life of Daniel Defoe


John Richetti


The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his...

Parution : 2015-07-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
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Télécharger le livre :  Albert Camus
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Albert Camus


Olivier Todd


Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, The Plague and The Outsider, have a timeless power and appeal and are studied all over the world, and his philosophical work has had an enduring influence. Oliver Todd has...

Parution : 2015-05-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of Saul Bellow
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The Life of Saul Bellow


Zachary Leader


Literature Book of the Year, Sunday Times'Terrific' Guardian'Enthralling' Spectator'Magisterial' Daily Telegraph'Unsurpassable' New York Review of BooksBy the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America, described...

Parution : 2015-05-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Romantic Outlaws
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Romantic Outlaws


Charlotte Gordon


***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through...

Parution : 2015-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Story of Alice
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The Story of Alice


Robert Douglas-Fairhurst


SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet...

Parution : 2015-03-26
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Young Eliot
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Young Eliot


Robert Crawford


Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century’s most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the...

Parution : 2015-01-29
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Life, Love and The Archers
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Life, Love and The Archers


Wendy Cope


Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted...

Parution : 2014-11-06
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Two Roads
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Télécharger le livre :  An Autobiography
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An Autobiography


Anthony Trollope


This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of the strangest - autobiographies ever written. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the...

Parution : 2014-10-09
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  An Autobiography
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An Autobiography


Anthony Trollope


This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of the strangest - autobiographies ever written. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the...

Parution : 2014-10-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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