Showing results for "Childhood" in Biographical Fiction

This audiobook tells the story of an orphan boy who--despite life's difficulties and his difficult relationships with other people--was able to survive and grow up as a worthy person. This audiobook also describes the unique spiritual and mystical experiences that the boy experienced throughout his childhood, communicating with nature, and other forces.

During the childhood years of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most famous women who ever lived, a young governess helped shape her into the icon the world knows today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and...

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an ‘awkward mixture of fact and fiction’, generations of readers and listeners have not agreed, finding the series to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color.

A la mort de sa mère, découvrant les rites funéraires de ses origines, Farida se replonge dans son enfance, si loin de sa vie d'adulte. Les mots et les souvenirs se bousculent alors qu'elle raconte pour la première fois la vie de cette famille d'immigrés algériens : les HLM misérables, les hommes brisés par l'illettrisme et la colonisation, les mères pétrifiées. Au milieu, une fratrie élevée dans une violence inouïe mais soudée par le rire et la force de vie.

Before Graceland is the coming-of-age story of the most enduring pop-cultural icon of all time. Follow 11-year-old Elvis Presley through the highs of experiencing his first crush, getting his hands on his first guitar, and securing a spot to compete on Children's Day of the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Follow him through the hardships of his birth home's foreclosure, his beloved mother's health problems, and his father's imprisonment. Book one of the Before Graceland trilogy frames the journey of the boy who would be king as never before.

Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of 11 autobiographical short stories by the beloved and successful 19th century Eastern European Yiddish writer Jacob Dinezon (1852 -1919). Friend and mentor to almost every major Jewish literary figure of his day, including Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim), I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, S. An-ski, and Abraham Goldfaden, Dinezon played a central role in the development of Yiddish as a modern literary language.

Escenas de una infancia reúne, por primera vez en lengua española, una selección de la mejor prosa breve del Premio Nobel de Literatura. De los relatos aquí contenidos, algunos se adentran libremente en el terreno de lo autobiográfico, como las extraordinarias estampas de «Escenas de una infancia» o «El pelo de Line»: evocan primeras veces, amistades, pérdidas, el descubrimiento del deseo, instantes de felicidad y fracasos más o menos estrepitosos.

En este viaje sentimental por Bretaña, la tierra idílica de su infancia, Le Clézio nos invita a reflexionar sobre la identidad territorial, los nacionalismos y el paso del tiempo. Desde su primer recuerdo —la explosión de una bomba en el jardín de la casa de su abuela—, pasando por los años vividos como niño de la guerra, que de forma tan terrible impactaron en su aprendizaje del mundo, el premio Nobel de Literatura dibuja una página imprescindible de su geografía emocional que habla de la pertenencia y su lugar en la memoria.

It's the dawn of the 1970s, and everything is changing. Enter "The Kid", a panic-prone, hyper-imaginative boy whose life changes drastically when his father brings home an astronaut white El Camino. His birthday arms him with a pair of novelty X-Ray Specs - and as the Camino muscles them through a decade of economic and cultural turmoil, the Kid comes to believe he can see through metal, clothing, skin - to the center of the universe itself, where he imagines something monstrous.