Open Road: 9207 books
Life Without Armour
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England’s most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers.
Born in 1928 into a poverty-stricken family in working-class Nottingham, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe’s childhood was marked by his father’s unpredictable and...
Herself
An Autobiographical Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A National Book Award nominee: Hortense Calisher’s autobiography captures the making of a distinct literary voice
Although Hortense Calisher’s fiction often draws on autobiographical elements, Herself is a disciplined documentation of the award-winning author’s life and work. She surveys...
Henry James
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The first book by distinguished novelist, journalist, and literary critic Rebecca West: a biography of Henry James
Setting the standard for a century’s worth of criticism, Rebecca West diagnosed Henry James as an American who “could never feel at home until he was in exile” in this slim,...
Farther Off from Heaven
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
**William Humphrey’s acclaimed memoir is a richly detailed portrait of small-town Texas and a poignant account of the tragedy that shaped the author’s life **
At three o’clock in the morning on July 5, 1937, William Humphrey awoke to his mother’s urgent cry: “Get dressed as quick...
Writers in America
The Four Seasons of Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Stories of twentieth-century American literary giants, by the man who was their friend, peer, and confidant
When he was introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald as a potential partner on a screenplay, novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg was surprised the author was still alive. In Schulberg’s...
The Autobiography
An Only Child and My Father's Son
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Frank O’Connor’s acclaimed autobiography, now in one volume
When Frank O’Connor was born, his parents—Minnie O’Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O’Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band—lived above a sweet-and-tobacco...
Country Editor's Boy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A memoir of youthful years spent in Colorado as the American West was transformed, by the author of High, Wide, and Lonesome and The Dog Who Came to Stay.
Country Editor’s Boy picks up where Hal Borland’s classic memoir *High, Wide and Lonesome *left off: with Borland, on the cusp...
Happy Days
My Mother, My Father, My Sister & Me
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Acclaimed 60 Minutes commentator and true-crime author Shana Alexander turns her journalist’s eye to her own unconventional family—and herself—in this fascinating, moving memoir
Shana Alexander spent most of her life trying to figure out her enigmatic parents. Milton Ager was a famous...
Collected Nonfiction
How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author.
In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin “leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard...
William Styron
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
A “mesmerizing” biography of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Darkness Visible (Entertainment Weekly).
William Styron was one of the most highly regarded and controversial authors of his generation. In this illuminating...
by Marcus Aurelius
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Wisdom from one of the greatest philosophical minds in all of Roman history
Divided into twelve books, these meditations chronicle Aurelius’s personal quest for self-improvement. This enduring text from one of history’s greatest warriors and leaders has been compared to St. Augustine’s...
The Albert Einstein Collection Volume One
Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Three captivating volumes reveal how Einstein viewed both the physical universe and the everyday world in which he lived.
A century after his theory of general relativity shook the foundations of the scientific world, Albert Einstein’s name is still synonymous with genius. This collection...
by George Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
**A rich and evocative study of one of modern history’s most compelling and controversial philosophers by a literary and critical grand master **** **
In Martin Heidegger, George Steiner delves into the life and work of the prolific German philosopher. His deft analysis lays bare the intricacies...
Colleagues in Genius
Out of My Later Years, Scientific Autobiography, and Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
These three works by Nobel Prize–winning physicists offer an enlightening window into the scientific minds that changed the twentieth century.
With their discoveries and formulations, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg ushered the world into the Nuclear Age. As colleagues,...