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This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowells rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost,...

For those who have discovered life, in illness, difficulty and despair, I wish that on your wings you'll fly, to diamonds, stars and dizzying flare. -- Ekaterina D. Bojilova.

Journalism at its very best: Noel Young, Sunday Mail, Scotland In search of the worlds greatest stories my hands have held Einsteins brain and Hitlers golden gun. My foot has stepped on the foot of the Queen of England. My body has survived an airliner crash, a submarine accident and beatings...

In 1971, after buying their acreage in a very remote area of the Colorado Mountains, the Wood family began to develop their dream ranch. The history and wild life of the area provides a fascinating backdrop for their story of adventure and discovery in the wilderness. From the first Americans to the...

They Called Me the Brush Slinger: Creating a Career in Art offers valuable information and insight into the life of an artist. Author Hall Groat Sr. provides an overview of marketing skills necessary to succeed in the art world, and his tales of both the bright and dark sides of being a self-employed...

Ernest Raynaud, le poète-commissaire de police,trace dans une suite de tableaux les portraits des principaux acteurs poétiques de cette période ainsi que les événements marquants de 1870-1890 : Le lyrisme français en 1870, Sarah Bernhardt, les Zutistes, la...

How do you discover yourself after heartbreak? Travel with a young artist on her true adventures in the 70s-a time of free love, drugs, the peace movement, and an explosive art scene as she searches for meaning in her own life. After heartbreak at home, she wins a scholarship to England and journeys...

À la pointe bretonne, dans un petit port battu par les vents frais et implacables de la côte du Finistère nord, un retraité jovial et facétieux arpente les plages à la recherche de bois flotté quand il ne fait pas la tournée des cafés. Qualifiée d’érotico-mystique par la presse locale,...

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It was precisely and carefully written, stating the facts and pulling apart the saintly whitewash Mrs. Gaskell and other previous biographers had done to Charlotte's life. He does a thorough job of getting at the real Charlotte behind all the myth. I'm not even sure the author liked Charlotte very...

In the years following his controversial 1970 exhibition at the Marlborough Galleries, Philip Guston was generally viewed as yesterday’s scandal, a maverick who had abandoned abstract expressionism and, with it, the adulation of the art world. Few paid serious attention to the disturbing, profound...

Réaliser une biographie c’est transfigurer l’homme. Faire ressortir de l’homme ordinaire ce qui le rend extraordinaire. Non pour trafiquer la vérité mais pour la magnifier. Chaque humain a une part de singularité extraordinaire qui le différencie d’autrui. C’est cette singularité dans...

«L’arte non ha bisogno di riuscire simpatica, ma esige grandezza» ha scritto Sironi. Sono parole che si attagliano anche a lui, pittore di periferie inospitali eppure imponenti come cattedrali moderne. Futurista a partire dal 1913, Mario Sironi (Sassari 1885 – Milano 1961) negli anni venti ha...

Innovative Memoir of intimate relationships among feminine in Ohana or Family with children's poems as well. Review: Stunning and colorful art, coupled with anecdotal poetry. Best eBook EVAH!