Author: Hales, John W. Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edmund Spenser (c.1552 -1599) was an English poet. He is best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene, which celebrated, through fantastical allegory, the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Spenser wa...
Author: Miller, Christian Publisher: Canongate Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Introduced by Dorothy Parker. 'When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people.' In this perceptive and unpretentious autobiography Christian Miller recalls her privileged...
Author: Conrad, Joseph Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Nearly lost for a very long time, "A Personal Record", the second of Conrad's autobiographical memoirs, first appeared in 1912. This collection retraces the author's East European background, his life...
Author: Beasley, Thomas Dykes Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this unique work, Beasley has narrated his travel expedition to California. Through this trip he redefines the personality of Bret Harte and other writers who wrote about this place. He has explain...
Description: Piozzi's markedly distinctive and colloquial style is illuminated in the memoir "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson". It is an engaging study of an idiosyncratic and self-absorbing persona. It captu...
Author: Trollope, Anthony Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at length, but said that he had written me a letter, not to be opened until after his de...
Author: Martin, John Publisher: Accent Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Martin is an Anglo-Irish writer who has investigated the mysterious and secret life of Daniel Defoe, the father of the English novel, whose books "Robinson Crusoe", "Moll Flanders", and "Roxana" ...
Author: Brown, Larry Publisher: Algonquin Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In his first work of nonfiction since the acclaimed On Fire, Brown aims for nothing short of ruthlessly capturing the truth of the world in which he has always lived. In the prologue to the book, he t...
Author: Payne, William Morton Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The biography sheds light on the life of Norwegian playwright and poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson. That the nation hails him as a nationalist who propounded patriotic themes and ideas is eloquently describ...
Author: Strasser, Judith Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she had suppressed...
Author: Boswell, James Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Published in 1791, Boswell's Life of Johnson exposes one of the most gigantic figures of English literature with unparalleled closeness and originality. He succeeded in portraying Johnson's life throu...
Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book was written by the same author that wrote "War and Peace", however, this book was written several years earlier, accounting several childhood memories, more or less woven together in one of ...
Author: Charters, Ann / Charters, Samuel Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspec...
Description: A remarkable and unique work, this book analyzes the reading habits of one of the greatest authors of all times. Kent scans the works that influenced and shaped Dickens' thought processes throughout h...
Author: Ward, Adolphus William Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The biography of Geoffrey Chaucer is no longer a mixture of unsifted facts, and of more or less hazardous conjectures. Many and wide as are the gaps in our knowledge concerning the course of his outer...
Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first of Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, written while he was in the army in the Caucasus and the Crimea. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that ...
Author: Conan Doyle, Arthur / Parke, Simon Publisher: White Crow Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: At the end of the 19th century, perhaps every man wanted to be Arthur Conan Doyle. He had written historical novels, short stories of horror and the supernatural; and displayed huge energy and talent ...
Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: White Crow Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When most think of Tolstoy, they think of the great author. 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' brought him worldwide fame, and a good deal of money. Had he done nothing else in life, these two novel...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first nov...
Author: Wasson, Ben Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coming home to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1918 after a stint in the Royal Flying Corps, young William Faulkner was arty and dandified. He sometimes was seen in his airman's uniform, and he affected Engli...
Author: Keane-Dawes Ph. D., Jennifer M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Jamaican born educator and scholar Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, author of the popular letters Dear Jamaica, shares her experiences living and working as a single parent in the United States...
Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743–1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia—imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle wi...
Author: Frank, Joseph Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. No...
Author: Blotner, Joseph Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre- eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, po...
Author: Picano, Felice Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the early 1970s, when he was still an aspiring, unpublished writer, Felice Picano began a remarkable relationship with an extraordinary animal: a days-old kitten slated for euthanasia who refused t...
Author: Leiber, Fritz / Lovecraft, H., P. Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While Howard Phillips Lovecraft was closing the final chapter of his writing career, Fritz Reuter Leiber was only beginning to open his own. The year was 1936 and Jonquil Leiber, Fritz's first wife, s...
Author: Fleishman, Avrom Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is well known that George EliotÃs intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her...
Author: Oliphant, Dave Publisher: Wings Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first major autobiography by a Texas poet, this noteworthy account traces the life and times of a poet, publisher, critic, and teacher from his childhood to the present day. This remarkable life i...
Author: Godden, G. M. Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist and playwright. Fielding was educated at Eton College. After a romantic episode with a young woman that ended in his getting into trouble with the ...
Author: and, Louis Lumet, Albert Keim Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This biography amazingly captures the details of Balzac's life. Almost a complete sketch of his life, the work also sheds light on his brilliancy as a writer. His far reaching influence, nationally an...
Author: Feraca, Jean Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jean Feraca’s road to self-fulfillment has been as quirky and demanding as the characters in her incredible memoir. A veteran of several decades of public radio broadcasting, Feraca is also a wr...
Author: Sokol, Neal Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Ilan Stavans has emerged as Latin AmericaÂ’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast," states the Washington Post. And the New York Times described him as "the czar of La...
Author: Twain, Mark Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using o...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era. He was also a notorious supporter of the decadence and aesthetic movements, eventually jailed for having a young male lover...
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Originally published in 1891, Oscar Wilde's Intentions is a collection of literary essays that present his views on art and criticism. Wildeâ™s aesthetic philosophy and his commentaries on art, lit...
Author: Alexander, Edward Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a dominant, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Author of the prize-winning WORLD OF OUR FATHERS, Howe was founder and editor of the de...
Author: Hadda, Janet Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish fo...
Author: Smiles, Samuel Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An extraordinary biographical work by Samuel Smiles who is famous for his social activities, books and articles. Published in 1891, it gives an in-depth account of the life of French poet and philanth...
Author: Hawkes, David Publisher: Counterpoint Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Milton - poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost - is revered today as a great writer and a proponent of free speech....
