Biography: writers Books
Double 9 Books Plutarch'S Lives Vol. 2
Book SynopsisPlutarch's Lives Vol 2, written by the ancient Greek historian and biographer Plutarch, is a captivating collection of biographies that offers deep insights into the lives of prominent figures from Greek and Roman history. This second volume serves as a continuation of Plutarch's comprehensive examination of notable individuals and explores the parallel lives of influential personalities. The biographies in Plutarch's Lives Vol 2 go beyond mere historical accounts, as Plutarch employs a blend of factual information and insightful anecdotes to paint vivid portraits of these illustrious individuals. With its rich historical context, engaging storytelling, and philosophical underpinnings, Plutarch's Lives Vol 2 stands as a timeless work that continues to captivate readers, offering profound wisdom and a window into the lives of extraordinary men.
£16.99
Double 9 Books Henry James
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£9.89
Bloomsbury India Hindi Dalit Literature in the United Provinces:
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£85.00
Westland Publications Limited Growing Up Karanth
Book SynopsisTHE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE KARANTH, REVEALED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME! Karanth, Kuvempu, Bendre the trinity of modern Kannada literature; the pride of Kannadigas; It was Shivarama Karanth who took the culture of Karnataka beyond the shores of India with his dance and music. After Rabindranath Tagore, no one had mastered as many art forms as Shivarama Karanth. From the Foreword by Dr. Chiranjiv Singh, former Indian ambassador to UNESCO Kota Shivarama Karanth was the ultimate Renaissance Man. A giant of world literature, he produced dozens of novels, plays, children''s works, autobiographies, popular science books, translations and much else. In 1977, he was awarded the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award for the novel Mookajjiya Kanasugalu. But Karanth was more than a writer. He also dabbled in journalism and movie-making, ran a publishing house, and campaigned for environmental and political causes. He was instrumental in transforming the ancient dance-drama form of Yakshagana for a modern audience. While a great deal has been written about the man and his genius, there is little material about the intimate details of his life. Through much of his creative career, for instance, Karanth was unflinchingly supported by his wife, Leela. The Karanths had four children. The eldest, Harsha, died in 1961. The other three, Malavika, Ullas and Kshama, came together to present this uniquely personal account of what it was like to be the children of a creative genius. Growing Up Karanth documents their rare privilege , while also detailing the world of Shivarama Karanth through their eyes. Multi-layered and nuanced, critical and affectionate, and filled with revelations that open up new facets of their father''s life, Malavika, Ullas and Kshama reveal Karanth and his times like no one else can.
£20.89
Westland Publications Limited Sky - Clad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of
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£15.50
United Library Bob Dylan: La biografía, tiempos y crónicas de un
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£9.49
Central European University Press Aleksandr Tvardovskii
Book SynopsisAlexander Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the editor of Novy Mir, the most prominent Soviet literary journal of the postwar period until the 1970s. This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who probably changed the literary culture of the Soviet Union more than any other person in the two decades after Stalin''s death. Geoffrey Hosking shows how Tvardovskii gradually evolved from being an ardent Stalinist who renounced his own so-called kulak family to becoming a convinced advocate of tolerance, an all-human morality, civil rights, and free literary creativity.By giving a balanced account of his strengths and weaknesses, his achievements and failures, the author succeeds in giving the fullest picture available anywhere of a controversial man who turns out to be more complex than he has been portrayed so far. To understand him better is to understand why the Soviet intelligentsia changed so fundamentally in the USSR's final decades, a change that helps to explain the rise of Gorbachev twenty years later. The study - which includes an in-depth analysis of Tvardovskii's major works - also helps to better understand the fate of culture under an authoritarian regime and the intricacies of the struggle against censorship.
£140.40
Wild Leaf White on Black
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£14.00
The American University in Cairo Press Naguib Mahfouz: His Life and Times
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£17.31
The American University in Cairo Press The Forster - Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight
Book SynopsisThis book documents one of the most intriguing and significant literary friendships of the twentieth century. The English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the First World War. Their subsequent correspondence bears witness to a complex relationship and serves as a fascinating testament to Forster's relentless determination to promote Cavafy by bringing out an English translation of his work. The letters also chronicle Cavafy's calculated refusal to comply fully with Forster's plans. The story they tell involves a number of major twentieth-century literary personalities - Arnold Toynbee, T.S. Eliot, T.E. Lawrence, and Leonard Woolf all participated in Forster's early translation project. Forster ultimately succeeded in launching Cavafy's reputation in the English-speaking world, setting an important precedent for his present global literary fame. The volume includes all extant letters, the earliest published Cavafy translations by George Valassopoulos (incorporating Cavafy's own authorial emendations), facsimiles of Cavafy's authorial revisions, poems by E.M. Forster, archival photographs, and related letters.
£24.83
Malthouse Press Chinua Achebe Pure and Simple Pure and Simple An Oral Biography
£38.03
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munshi (In 2 Volumes)
Book SynopsisThis book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munshi Abdullah (1796-1854). He was a prominent literary figure and thinker in the Malay world in the 19th century and was also an early 'pioneer' of Singapore.The author, Professor Hadijah Rahmat, has spent more than 25 years studying Munshi Abdullah since her PhD studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 1992 to date. This book is covered in two volumes and is based on her research conducted using unexplored primary sources at several missionaries' archives at SOAS, London, Houghton Library, University Harvard, Library of Congress, Leiden University, KITVL, Holland, and the Perpustakaan Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta.The book consists of numerous academic papers presented at the regional and international seminars, and also published in international journals and as chapters of books. Besides academic papers, the excerpt of play titled Munsyi, sketches, poetry, and song, and interviews by the national media are also included.This book provides new insight into Abdullah's life, backgrounds, writings, his influences and legacies and the reactions and thought provoking views of the western and eastern scholars on Abdullah. The book is indeed the key reference for studies on Munshi Abdullah, Malay literature, and the history of Singapore, Malaysia, and colonialism in Southeast Asia.
£162.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical
Book SynopsisEnglish translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael TanReviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text:A companion edition of the book in Chinese is available — the original classical text translated into modern Chinese and profusely annotated by Associate Professor Dr Chan Chiu Ming of National Institute of Education, Singapore.
£38.00
Hong Kong University Press The Happy Hsiungs Performing China and the
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£14.25
Hong Kong University Press The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China
£64.60
Batalha Publishers Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 2
£42.75
Culturea Memories of my life: The autobiography of Sarah
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£46.80
Adrian Aguilar Truman Capote Erweiterte Biografie
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£21.37
Independently Published When Hope is Enough: Melissa's Miracle
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£8.81
Independently Published Dav Pilkey Books: The Biography of Dav Pilkey
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£10.35
Independently Published Canudinhos: Uma doce história de avós e netinhos.
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£7.26
Bloomsbury Publishing USA Rethinking Kerouac
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£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing USA Barbara Kingsolvers World
Book SynopsisLinda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author or editor of over 50 books, including Toni Morrison, A Literary Life (Macmillan, 2015), The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (ed. with Cathy N. Davidson, Oxford University Press, 1995), and Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit (Bloomsbury 2015, 2021 2nd ed). She is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Hubbell Medal from the Modern Language Association. She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, at Rollins College, at Bellagio and at Bogliasco. She has served as president of The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society and the American Literature Division of the Modern Language Association. She has won many teaching awards, particularly at Michigan State University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
£21.99
Bloomsbury Publishing USA Chinua Achebe
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£21.99
State University of New York Press Dorothy Parkers New York
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£17.10
State University of New York Press The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin
£86.70
Independently Published Tony Robbins
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£12.18
Bloomsbury Academic The World Is Not Enough
£18.04
Academic Studies Press Dostoevsky's Unfinished Journey
Book SynopsisWords, silences, and narratives as vehicles are always in flux, always fueling us, precipitating actions both virtuous and criminal, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, sublime and ridiculous. Dostoevsky, more than any other writer except perhaps Shakespeare, supplies an unending source of inspiration for the full sweep of human action, thought, emotion, and belief in all their contradictory manifestations and combinations. Dostoevsky’s journeys onto these terrains are without exception unfinished, always in process, alive and precariously so, even as those inspired by him may find for themselves completion, rationales, and answers. His readers have given various names to the quality of completion embedded within uncertainty that his oeuvre conveys and which can then serve to engender religious, philosophical, or nakedly political discourses and responses, some of which would no doubt surprise, even horrify him.Dostoevsky, however, continues to stand apart; his written words, silences, and narratives expressing, through their embodiment in characters, his own unfinished journey. Ivan Karamazov’s rebellious philosopher maybe have walked his quadrillion kilometers in the dark, but their mutual creator still travels on.
£25.95
Academic Studies Press Nina Berberova: Known and Unknown
Book SynopsisThis book is the first biography of Nina Berberova. Based on years of archival research, the author deciphers many of the conspicuous omissions ("умолчания," as Berberova herself put it) which have intrigued generations of readers of Berberova's autobiography The Italics are Mine. A special focus is given to the four decades Berberova lived in the US, which were left out of her book, and which ended up being extremely productive for her both personally and professionally.Trade Review"Винокурова относится к Берберовой с симпатией, с подлинным интересом, но совершенно не склонна к агиографическому жанру". –«Звезда» № 8, 2023“Vinokurova treats Berberova with sympathy, with genuine interest, but is not at all inclined to the hagiographic genre.” –Zvezda, No. 8, 2023"…при всей серьезности рассматриваемых проблем и безусловной академичности книги Винокуровой она не грешит пресловутым наукообразием, за которым нередко скрывается пустота. Напротив, биография Берберовой написана в лучших традициях классической научной прозы: стройной, логически выверенной и выстроенной, «прозрачной», говорящей «просто о сложном», увлекательной и удерживающей внимание читателя на протяжении без малого семи сотен страниц не менее цепко, чем хороший роман. Именно поэтому книга будет востребована не только специалистами по литературе русской эмиграции, но и всеми, кому интересна история культуры двадцатого столетия, как российской, так и западной".–"Новый мир", № 8, 2023“...[D]espite the seriousness of the topics covered and the undeniably scientific nature of Vinokurova's book, it avoids the pitfall of superficial academic jargon that often masks emptiness. Instead, Berberova's biography is crafted in the finest traditions of classic scholarly prose: coherent, logically sound and well-organized, clear, treating complex subjects with simplicity, engaging and holding the reader's focus across almost seven hundred pages as compellingly as any gripping novel. Hence, this book will be demanded not just by experts in Russian emigrant literature but by anyone interested in the cultural history of the twentieth century, both in Russia and the West.” –"Новый мир", № 8, 2023«Рассказано в книге Ирины Винокуровой о жизни, мнениях и сочинениях Нины Николаевны столько, сколько вряд ли кто в обозримое время сможет поведать. Хотя конкретно исследование ограничено перипетиями вокруг книги «Курсив мой» и годами жизни ее создателя в США, труд Ирины Винокуровой прежде всего оставляет впечатление цельности воссозданной ею жизни вернувшегося из дальних странствий писателя. Теперь существование Нины Берберовой в нашей культуре помещено в добротный, с корректностью и вкусом слаженный переплет. Задвинуть во второй ряд такую книгу удастся очень нескоро. Надеюсь, и вообще не удастся».–"Знамя", № 9, 2023 “There is so much told about the life, opinions, and writings of Nina Nikolaevna in Irina Vinokurova's book that it is unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon. Although the specific research is limited to the events surrounding the book 'The Italics Are Mine' and the subsequent years its creator spent in the US, the main impression left by Irina Vinokurova's work is that of a fully reimagined life of a writer who returned from distant journeys. Nina Berberova's legacy in our culture has now been set in a sturdy binding, assembled with accuracy and taste. Relegating such a book to the sidelines will not be possible any time soon. Hopefully, it will never be possible.”–Znamya, No. 9, 2023
£31.99
ACADEMIC STUDIES PR From Pushkin to Popular Culture
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£27.54
Post Hill Press Salingers Soul
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£12.44
White Goat Press Isaac Bashevis Singer Writings on Yiddish and
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£14.39
White Goat Press Isaac Bashevis Singer Writings on Yiddish and
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£18.89
