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Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America.
Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey...
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Raise the windsock. Read the compass. Ride where the wind wills it. Late 2010. From the end of fall to the beginning of winter, Daniel Canty becomes a wind seeker. Aboard the Blue Rider, a venerable midnight-blue Ford Ranger crested with a weathervane and a retractable windsock, he surrenders himself to the fluidity of air currents. The adventure leads him and artist driver Patrick Beaulieu from the plains of the Midwest up to Chicago, the Windy City,...
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Virginia Woolf ha sido durante mucho tiempo objeto de críticas y ataques por su defensa de una "feminidad natural", pero en la actualidad las ideas plasmadas en sus novelas y ensayos inspiran a una nueva generación de lectores feministas que aspiran a sumergirse en la problemática cuestión del género y de la compatibilidad entre hombres y mujeres. Woolf luchó, en buena parte sin éxito, por explicar la naturaleza de sus necesidades como mujer,...
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“The Play of the Eyes” is the third volume in Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs.
Here, Canetti describes his young adult life as he tries to make it as a writer in Vienna during the 1930s and provides vivid accounts of the remarkable figures he meets along the way, usually in cafes, from Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, among others.
85) Camus, a Romance
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Albert Camus is best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? Camus, a Romance reveals the French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper Combat; the pied noir in anguish over the Algerian War; the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women. These form only the barest outlines of Camus's life, which Elizabeth Hawes chronicles alongside her own...
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Mariano Santiago de Jesús de la Bárcena Ramos fue, al igual que muchos personajes del siglo xix, un hombre multifacético que se desarrolló en un sinfín de oficios talabartero, artista, ingeniero, profesor, paleontólogo, geólogo, delegado en exposiciones industriales y científicas, director de un museo industrial y de un observatorio meteorológico, hacendado y político. Destacó a nivel internacional en geología y paleontología, al grado...
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The works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in “The Garden Party”, “In a German Pension”, and numerous anthologies. Biographies appearing after her death idealized her, but Meyers sets the record straight in his assessment of the author's...
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Anne K. Mellor (nacida en 1941) es una distinguida profesora de literatura británica en UCLA. Está especializada en literatura del Romanticismo, historia cultural inglesa, feminismo, filosofía, historia del arte y estudios de género. Fue la editora del primer volumen de ensayos feministas de escritoras del Romancismo Romanticismo y Feminismo (1988). En 1999 Mellor recibió el Premio al Historiador Destacado otorgado por la Asociación Keats-Shelley....
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This is a biographical account of the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a personal and yet domestic telling of her life in Devon. It describes the highs and lows - certainly losing her brother on a boating trip out of Torquay Harbour affected her writing intensely.
Her defiance against her father's controlling ways, the declaration that she was going to dress like a man and become a heavy smoker just to shock him gives a more intimate picture of...
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A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life-including Post Office, Factotum, and Women-and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly) based on his life. Drawing on new interviews with virtually all of Bukowski's friends, family, and many lovers; unprecedented access to his private letters...
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¡Cuántas vidas malogradas¡ ¡Cuánto ha perdido la sociedad con los castigos, la incomprensión y el autoritarismo en la escuela oprimiendo así la creatividad y desarrollo del niño, surgiendo su infravaloración e impidiéndole desarrollar todo su potencial que tanta repercusión podría tener en el futuro para el ser humano. Que nadie pueda decir como la nieta de Margareth Mead Mi abuela quiso que yo tuviera una buena educación, por eso no...
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Widely considered the greatest American poet, Walt Whitman was initially deemed by the literary establishment an egomaniac, a charlatan, and a poet whose verse lacked any sense of rhyme or meter. James Thomson's engaging study of the author of “Leaves of Grass” is a vigorous defense of the poet, whom he admired and held in the same high regard as Shelley.
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When Albert Camus died in a car crash in January 1960 he was only 46 years old already a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a world figure author of the enigmatic The Stranger, the fable called The Plague, but also of the combative The Rebel which attacked the 'politically correct' among his con-temporaries. Thanks to his early literary achievement, his work for the under-ground newspaper Combat and his editorship of that daily in its Post-Liberation...
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Lluís Pasqual narra su relación con Federico García Lorca y se nos revela un extraordinario narrador. Un ensayo delicioso, de una sensibilidad y una fuerza narrativa excepcionales.
"Al igual que cuando uno se enamora por primera vez se está enamorando de alguien y del amor al mismo tiempo, García Lorca era para mí "el autor" y la Literatura: el descubrimiento de la compañía espiritual y de la capacidad de aventura que encierra un libro. Aunque...
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Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English two dozen "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah sailed his Ark into Hudson Bay in search of woolly mammoths and lost his way. By turns startling, tragic, and comical, these inimitable narratives tell the history of the Arctic and capture the collision of cultures precipitated by the arrival of a hapless...
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The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them vividly excavates this...
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This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin's life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. "Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I've ever read...I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating" (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.
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This book tells the autobiography of my father, his years in Haiti, and his transition as an immigrant in foreign lands. His personal account mirrors the daily struggles one may face under the Duvaliers' regimes in the sixties through the mid of eighties to cultural shock and identity in other countries. Growing up, he experiences a lot of different emotions regarding his father's absence from the home along with dealing with his sudden death that...
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Cuando tenía veintisiete años, se hundió la bolsa. Cuando tenía veintiocho, me hundí yo. Entonces, supongo, me desperté. De este modo, cuando estaba a punto de cumplir los treinta, empecé a ganarme la vida escribiendo. Esta es la historia de un negro que quiso ganarse la vida con sus poemas y sus cuentos.
Divago mientras vago, la segunda de sus autobiografías, es un libro de viajes en el que su autor pone de manifiesto su perspicacia para...
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Jerzy Kosinski is one of the most important and original writers of our times. Passing By serves as his legacy, a collection of writings that answers many questions about his work and offers a revealing and provocative self-portrait by an author whose life was shrouded in enigma. The man who emerges here has a passion for sport, a quirky sense of fun, an idiosyncratic range of acquaintances stretching from Pope John Paul II to Warren Beatty, and an...
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