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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and...
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Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most important writer--of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones,...
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Esta Bruma Insensata / This Senseless FogUna fascinante meditación narrativa sobre la originalidad en la literatura, de la mano de uno de nuestros narradores más originales En un caserón medio derruido de Cadaqués, Simon Schneider vive entregado al tranquilo oficio de proporcionar citas literarias a otros escritores, entre los que...
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: EssaysThe bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an "inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point" (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the...
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Jacob's Ghetto: You're not the product of your environmentJacob, a bright 10-year-old African American boy with exceptional writing ability, seems to have a promising academic future ahead of him. But living on the south-side of Chicago, life at home is nothing but. He is living in a drug-infested community with a residence...
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The Plays of Oscar WildeWith an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved...
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The Farm in the Green MountainsThe charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was...
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The Seven Lives of Alejandro JodorowskyA definitive look at the life of legendary filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his many wild creative ventures throughout his 90 years on earth. A journey through Jodo's personal life, his life in the theater, his rebirth as a 70s cinematic cult figure and and,...
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The Search for Philip K. Dick"I also highly recommend Anne R. Dick's The Search for Philip K. Dick for anyone interested in the life of the writer."--Lavie Tidhar, Washington Post Offering an intimate perspective on the life of an important and prolific author, this revealing biography uncovers the inner...
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The Left Bank GangF. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar... no, it's not the beginning of a joke, but the premise of Jason's unique new graphic novel. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive...
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My Name Is Gabito (English): The Life of Gabriel Garcia MarquezThis picture-book biography of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) traces the Nobel Prize-winning novelists life from his childhood in Colombia to today, using the imagery from his eclectic novels. Full color.Author: Monica BrownPublisher: Cooper Square PubPublished: 10/01/2007Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize:...
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Tough Guys Don't Dance"Spectacular . . . Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head."--People Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant crime novel that transcends...
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The Maine WoodsHenry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land....
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Frances and BernardFrances and Bernard meet in the summer of 1957. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can change the course of our lives.They find their way to New York and, for a few...
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Victor HugoVictor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame....
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The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My HeroesAcclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute (New York Times Book Review). From his bid to...
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a LifetimeNearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsen's journey is peopled with...
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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial LifeFiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays:...
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A MemoirFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston's imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the...
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Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and HemingwayNew York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series.Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry...
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