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In the World is the second instalment of Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical trilogy. Published in 1916, the book depicts Gorky’s experiences as a young adult, portraying his encounters with an array of characters from different social classes and conveying his observations of society at large. Gorky skilfully depicts the struggles, dreams and complexities of the lower classes, highlighting the social inequalities prevalent in Russia during the later 19th century.

From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha...

Douglas Adams is one of the most celebrated science fiction and comedy writers of his generation. He is best known for the best-selling radio, book, TV, and film series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, along with Dirk Gently's Detective Agency, episodes of Doctor Who, and his collaborations with members of Monty Python.

Er ist der literarische Magier des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Nobelpreisträger und gefeiertes Genie, Großbürger und Familienvater, mit seiner Frau Katia in jahrzehntelanger Ehe verbunden und zugleich so unglücklich, wie man nur sein kann. Er liebt und darf nicht lieben, die Vorstellungen seiner Zeit stehen ihm im Weg. Was für ein Antrieb zu großer Literatur – und was für ein leidvolles Leben.

I 1953 udkom De fordømtes legion, en krigsknaldroman om skyttegravslivet i et strafferegiment, baseret på forfatterens egne oplevelser som frivillig soldat i tysk tjeneste under Anden Verdenskrig. Gennem de næste ti år blev Sven Hazel et af Danmarks mest berømte forfatternavne. Hans romaner...

An intimate encounter with four young poets on their way to literary fame in the legendary grit and glitter of postwar New York "I defy readers to withstand the romance of the moment Kindley so beautifully describes and to resist the urge to relive it through the New York School Poets’ verse...

للقراءة دور رئيسي في صنع شخصيات عظيمة، وكتاب (القراءة صنعة العظماء) يؤكد لنا ذلك من خلال سرده لقصة 39 شخصية عظيمة استطاعت أن تكون لها بصمة مؤثرة. ويبين الكتاب دور القراءة الرئيسي في صنع هذه الشخصيات، ويؤكد أن العظماء تجد عندهم دوماً نهماً شديداً للقراءة يسيطر على أغلب أوقاتهم وتصنعهم مبدعين ومؤثرين.

عرّف بيتر شتاينس، المولع بالأدب، في صيف 2013 أنه مصاب بمرض التَّصَلُّب الجانِبِيّ الضُّمورِيّ وأن حياته ستنتهي قريبًا. بعد ستة أشهر بدأ كتابة مقالة أسبوعية في صحيفة "إن آر سي هاندلسبلاد" ربط فيها مسار مرضه بالكتب التي قرأها أو أعاد قراءتها. أصبح كافكا وديكنز وريفى وشكسبير وشيمبورسكا وخمسون كاتبًا آخر رفقاء رحلته. في مغزى القراءة، يصف شتاينس تدهور حالته الجسديَّة ورحلته مع المؤسسات الطبية ببساطة ومرح.

يضم هذا الكتاب ستاً وعشرين دراسة شائقة لشخصيات لعب معظمها دوراً هاماً في حياة المؤلف على مدى أكثر من سبعين عاماً. وقد التزم حسين أحمد أمين في حديثه عنها بأمرين: الأول: أن يكون الحديث قاصراً في معظمه على ما خبره بنفسه منها وعاينه، دون ما سمعه عنها أو قرأه.

Writer's block is not a discipline problem. It's a nervous system event, and you can finally hear how to solve it. You have a message that keeps you up at night. But every time you sit down to write, your throat tightens, your mind goes blank, and that cruel little voice whispers, "Maybe I just don't have what it takes."

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Newstead Abbey was one of the most prosperous and fashionable aristocratic homes in England. It was the abode of William the 4th Baron Byron - a popular and successful composer and artist - and his teenage wife Frances. But only a few decades later, at...

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ‘Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact’ Financial Times ‘Richly repays reading … It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much’ Sunday Times A...

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives. 

After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children - Louis and Marcel - in 1990, Anne and Paul Theroux decided to separate. For that year, Anne - later a professional relationship therapist herself - kept a diary, noting not only her day-to day experiences as a busy freelance journalist and broadcaster but the contrasts in her feelings between despairing grief and hope for a new future.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin, read by Jill Balcon and David Shaw-Parker. Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest...

Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising.

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

In Lessico famigliare, il riaffiorare alla memoria di parole, espressioni, frasi e modi di dire sentiti tante volte in casa da Natalia Ginzburg, scandisce, con ironia e tenerezza, la storia della sua famiglia - i Levi - ebrei e antifascisti, nell'Italia tra gli anni Venti e gli anni Cinquanta del Novecento.

Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes.

John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.