Yale University Press, 2018. — 360 p. The first English‑language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren’s sometimes turbulent life as an unwed teenage mother, outspoken advocate for the rights...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002. — 548 p. — (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) — ISBN: 90-04-12156-0. This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a...
Publisher: Piemme, 2012. — 96 p. — ISBN: 8856613865. Ci sono tanti enigmi che avvolgono la morte del grande poeta di Recanati: il mistero della conversione al cattolicesimo negli ultimi giorni della malattia, la sparizione di alcuni scritti autografi che lo attesterebbero, il giallo delle esequie e della tomba. Leopardi morì all'età di 39 anni, in un periodo in cui il colera...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 352 p. Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these...
Penguin Canada, 2008. — 324 p. Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie are icons of the Canadian imagination. Yet most of what we know of these two English gentlewomen who spent their adult lives struggling in Britain’s harsh and vigorous colony comes from their own self-consciously crafted writings and from other writers’ sometimes fanciful depictions of them. But what were...
Blackwell Publishing, 2009. — 534 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-4183-3. A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization. Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. — 672 p. ISBN: 0307271773. Language: English. The first full and authorized biography of the 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Over the course of the nearly two decades Gerald Martin gave to the research and writing of this masterly biography, he not only spent...
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2000. — 352 p. At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad forThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him,...
London: Random House, 2006. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0812972767; ISBN13: 978-0812972764. A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 144 p. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for...
Mondadori, 2012. — 68 p. Quello che possiamo dire sulla vita di Dante è lui stesso a raccontarlo. Ed è proprio a partire dalle tracce disseminate nelle opere, oltre che attraverso documenti e testi dell'epoca, che Marco Santagata, il massimo esperto in Italia, ricostruisce la vita del sommo poeta offrendola al lettore con stile brillante e narrativo in venti brevi capitoli.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 295 p. The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a challenging yet accessible survey of this versatile figure, not only one of the world’s greatest writers but also a theatre director and art critic, a natural scientist and state administrator. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary...
Kar-Ben Publishing, 2007. — 40 p. Janusz Korczak was a champion of children, dedicating his life for them and, in the end, comforting them at the death camp Treblinka. Because this is a book geared toward younger readers, it treats Dr. Korczak's final years with sensitivity. Moreover, Ms. Spielman devotes most of the book to Janusz Korczak's boyhood and his running his...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2019. — 130 p. In this kids' biography, discover the incredible story of Anne Frank, the courageous young writer who hid from the Nazis during World War II. Anne Frank's diary is read by children and adults worldwide. It tells two stories: one of an extraordinary young girl living in hiding during one of the most fearsome times in history, and one...
Firenze: Presso G. Molini, 1826. — 216 p. Questo discorso и tratto dalle istorie che io scrivo dei tempi della Alighieri, nelle quali mi vo ingegnando con ogni studio di narrare icostumi e le passioni di quella eta. Qui ho doluto stringere m poco le molte cose spettanti al presente lavoro delle istorie medesime: tengo nondimeno in serbo copiose aggiunte riguardo ai...
München: 2013. — 582 s. Bu kitabda ömrünü Vətənin bütövlüyü, müstəqilliyi yolunda, millətin azadlığı uğrunda şam kimi əridən dəyərli ziyalı, məşhur jurnalist Mirzə Xəzərin son səkkiz ildə yazdığı məqalələr, şərhlər toplanıb. Kitabda həmçinin səkkiz ildə Mirzə Xəzərə müxtəlif dillərdə gələn məktublar, ona həsr olunan poema, məqalələr, şeirlər də var. Təəssüf ki, Mirzə Xəzərin...
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