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Casanova lui-même nous fait le récit de sa vie riche et dense, dans laquelle séductions et aventures sont intimement liées...
Pour Un Public Averti. Les Mémoires de Casanova sont écrits entre 1789 et 1798. Publiés à titre posthume en 1825 dans une version censurée, ils sont mis à l'index en 1834, avec les autres œuvres de l'auteur. Cette autobiographie, qui se lit comme un roman, retrace non seulement les amours passagères et libertines...
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A FAMILY WHO LIVED THEIR LIVES AS SHOWBOAT ENTERTAINERS ON AMERICAN RIVERS.
Children of the Ol' Man River, which was first published in 1936, tells the colorful and witty life story of the Bryants, a poor family who found fortune aboard the Mississippi steamboat they built and performed on at the beginning of this century. In addition to chronicling his own family's history, Bryant provides an excellent introduction to the importance...
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Casanova lui-même nous fait le récit de sa vie riche et dense, dans laquelle séductions et aventures sont intimement liées...
POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. Les Mémoires de Casanova sont écrits entre 1789 et 1798. Publiés à titre posthume en 1825 dans une version censurée, ils sont mis à l'index en 1834, avec les autres œuvres de l'auteur. Cette autobiographie, qui se lit comme un roman, retrace non seulement les amours passagères et libertines...
2224) Wayfaring Stranger
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First published in 1948, this autobiography from Burl Ives, whom Carl Sandberg calls "the greatest folk ballad singer of them all," is as fresh and wholesome as a summer's breeze out of an Illinois cornfield. His ballads have long been an authentic expression of his land and its people-songs his grandmother taught him in the Midwestern farm country, songs remembered by old-timers in small towns all over the land, songs he heard hobos singing-songs...
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Extrait : "Le lendemain d'un de ses plus grands triomphes, Molière écrivait au savant Jacques Rohault : « Mon cher monsieur, je suis le plus malheureux des hommes : ma femme ne m'aime pas. » La vie de Molière est toute dans ce mot-là. - Eh quoi ! Ce protégé du grand roi, que la foule salue comme le premier acteur de son temps, qui crée à lui seul la comédie et l'élève à des hauteurs qu'elle n'a point atteintes depuis."
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Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name, and a career spanning some sixty years, he has brought the works of a host of writers from across the Arab world to an ever-widening English readership. Here he...
2227) Minnie Pearl's Diary
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Sarah Ophelia Colley, takes on her well-known alter ego Minnie Pearl to write a quaint diary in her inimitable Southern Country style.
"Dear Folks:
Up to now, you've only heard what she could tell on the air. But at last she's been persuaded to give us her secret diary-writ by hand.
We asked her for some information "to put on the outside of the book" and this is what she sent us:
BIRTHPLACE: Grinder's Switch, 3 miles west of Centerville (not...
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The King was first published in 1961, shortly after the death of Hollywood legend Clark Gable in 1960. The book traces Gable's life from its humble, hardscrabble beginnings in Ohio, to his hard work and determined efforts to achieve success on Broadway, to his meteoric rise to stardom in Hollywood, his time spent in the Army Air Force in Europe, and his many loves, including Carole Lombard who was tragically killed in an airplane crash in 1942. The...
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"I've spent about 15 years plus some working with people's stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I'm watching people's lives and communities literally change, sometimes drastically, for the work. Spider Speculations is the beginning of trying to understand the hows and whys of all the changes."-Author Jo Carson. Jo Carson lays bare her personal investigation...
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Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest writing in that vein, starting with "An Inland Voyage." This 1878 chronicle of a canoe journey through Belgium and France charmingly captures the European...
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At the beginning of a new writing project-whether it's the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is 'like someone you don't know knocking on your door-you either choose to let the person in or not. It's both exciting and dangerous to start a new manuscript.' This book is an engagement with that 'stranger' called writing. Creative...
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Casanova lui-même nous fait le récit de sa vie riche et dense, dans laquelle séductions et aventures sont intimement liées...
POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. Les Mémoires de Casanova sont écrits entre 1789 et 1798. Publiés à titre posthume en 1825 dans une version censurée, ils sont mis à l'index en 1834, avec les autres œuvres de l'auteur. Cette autobiographie, qui se lit comme un roman, retrace non seulement les amours passagères et libertines...
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At eighteen he was president of a $2-million-a-year construction company. At twenty he couldn't afford a house of his own. When he was thirty-seven he had four plays running simultaneously, netting him $20,000 a week. The following year he went into bankruptcy for over a million dollars. At forty-nine he married Hollywood's reigning beauty, Elizabeth Taylor, and had the greatest hit in motion-picture history-Around the World in Eighty Days, the first...
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When Robert Benchley died in 1945, his obituaries read like love-letters from the world. Here is a collection of his short, whimsical, hilarious articles which show why. With befuddled and heroic bewilderment Benchley faces his problems. Among others are the mislaid locomotive, a dachshund who sued for libel, and a songbird who was "out to get" Benchley. It ends with five sizzling chapters of his "Untold Story," starting when, as an innocent young...
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For the first, time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time.
Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter, that would alter the course of their lives. Jandl's death in 2000 ended a partnership of nearly half a century. As writers have for millennia, Mayröcker turned to her art...
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Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography of this innovative African American writer and visual artist. Given the full cooperation...
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Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"?
In The Fight for "The Night": Resolving the Authorship Dispute Over "The Night Before Christmas," author Tom A. Jerman addresses a challenge first voiced by descendants of a Poughkeepsie farmer, Henry Livingston Jr., and later articulated by Vassar English professor Don Foster to the long-standing attribution of "The Night Before Christmas" to New York seminary professor Clement C. Moore.
· Livingston never...
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In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage. A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. As Newbery Medal winner Madeleine L'Engle describes a relationship characterized by compassion, respect, and growth, as well as challenge and conflict, she beautifully evokes the life she and her husband, actor Hugh...
2239) Here Lies the Heart
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Mercedes de Acosta (1893 – 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. She was professionally unsuccessful but is known for her many lesbian affairs with famous Broadway and Hollywood personalities and numerous friendships with prominent artists of the period. De Acosta was involved in numerous lesbian relationships with Broadway's and Hollywood's elite and she did not attempt to hide her sexuality; her uncloseted existence was very rare...
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Le parcours d'un musicien passionné, au fil de ses accomplissements artistiques et de ses rencontres.
Après une enfance de « titi » parisien, à peine sorti d'une adolescence peu commune qu'il nous raconte avec sa gouaille coutumière, Jacques poursuit ses études de piano. Il joue au Vieux Colombier, o il croise Sidney Bechet, Claude Luter et Georges Brassens ; il partage les nuits de Saint-Germain-des-Prés avec Juliette Gréco, Boris Vian...
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