Literary category: 117525 books
Not Just Jane
Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“Not Just Jane restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote.”
**—**Dr. Amanda...
A Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist
O, The Oprah Magazine Best Books of Summer” selection
Magnetic nonfiction.” -O, The Oprah Magazine
Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic...
Time Was Soft There
A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
"Some bookstores are filled with stories both inside and outside the bindings. These are places of sanctuary, even redemption---and Jeremy Mercer has found both amid the stacks of Shakespeare & Co."
---Paul Collins, author of Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
In a small...
by Andrew McConnell Stott
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Love affairs, literary rivalries, and the supernatural collide in an inspired journey to Lake Geneva, where Byron, the Shelleys, and John Polidori come together to create literature’s greatest monsters
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most...
by Anthony Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
'A classic; of his mastery of language there can be no doubt'- Anthony Burgess. This paperback reissue of Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one...
A Celtic Temperament
Robertson Davies as Diarist
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Versatile and prolific, Robertson Davies was an actor, journalist and newspaper publisher, playwright, essayist, founding master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and one of Canada’s greatest novelists. He was also an obsessive, complex, and self-revealing diarist. His diaries, which...
Between the Sheets
Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The literary critic examines the love lives and career ambitions of some of the twentieth century’s greatest female authors—from Sylvia Plath to Anaïs Nin.
Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) want to marry...
Literary Life
A Second Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
• A critically acclaimed memoirist: McMurtry’s nonfiction works, including his most recent memoir, Books , have received rave reviews from readers and critics alike. In this follow-up to Books , McMurtry explores the trials and triumphs of being a writer. .
• Writing from the other side...
Imagined London
A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home—in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this...
The World Broke in Two
Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book Concierge
A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World...
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. In addition, there...
by David Chariandy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James
"Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter
WINNER--Toronto...
Maps and Legends
Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the literary joys of sci-fi and superheroes, gumshoes and goblins, and the stories that bring us together.
“I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period.” Such is the manifesto of Michael Chabon, an author of indisputable literary renown...
A Solemn Pleasure
To Imagine, Witness, and Write
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Essays in this collection have been recently and prominently published: “Still God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave,” first published in Wilson Quarterly (2013), was a Byliner exclusive, recognized by The Atlantic as one of the year’s “Fantastic Pieces of Journalism,” and nominated...