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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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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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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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This book proves that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays we know as Shakespearean. In the play Hamlet, in a very special coded way, he signed his name Ver hundreds of times. These clues in Hamlet provide the stamp of his authorship! All of the Shakespearean plays and sonnets reflect incidents in the life of Edward de Vere. The real events in his life involved violence, intrigue and loveand some of them were shocking! In a web...
45) Gibbon
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This 1878 volume in the English Men of Letters series explores the life of Edward Gibbon, author of “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. According to a contemporary review by Mark Pattison in the Academy, "Future numbers of the series may imitate, they cannot surpass, the present specimen." A splendid perspective on the life of an intriguing man.
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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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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) wrote vivid accounts about life in New Orleans, the West Indies, and Japan. This appreciative 1908 biography discusses his birth to an Irish father and Greek mother, his work and travels, and the impact of poor eyesight on this "poet of myopia." Gould writes, "Of Lafcadio Hearn there has been, and will be, no excuse for any biography whatever. A properly edited volume of his letters, and... development of his imaginative...
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The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve-miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family that kept the group together long after the men had ceased to be friends....
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Han pasado casi veinte años -de los cuales el profeta lleva quince en la eternidad, y aquí estoy otra vez sentado sobre las mismas posaderas, frente a la máquina original de Gonzalo que terminé por heredarle, preparando la edición de las Memorias de un presidiario nadaísta. Como en aquellos días, los ojos se me llenan de nubes al contemplar en perspectiva esta generación nadaísta que la vida se ha ido llevando en los cuernos. Ya empitonó...
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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...
51) Burns
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Known in Scotland as simply "The Bard," Robert Burns (1759—1796) endured a childhood of hardship and poverty to become a celebrated poet who is today widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. J. C. Shairp's biography of Burns is an insightful look at the life of this pioneer of the Romantic Movement.
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Nada podía hacer prever a Danae, estudiante de primer curso de Filosofía, que su vida iba a dar un giro inesperado con la visita de un viejo amigo de su difunto padre. Un secreto oculto durante años removerá su pasado y embarcará a la protagonista hacia la emblemática Universidad La luz de Saint Etiel. ¿Qué hechos velados se esconden tras los muros de La luz? ¿Será capaz Danae de armar el rompecabezas y enfrentarse a su pasado? ¿En quién...
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A young woman's heady encounter with the new Russia, as she and the country thrill to their first taste of freedom
It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Voronezh, a provincial town famous for its loamy black earth, a sense of lightheartedness-part fear, part exhilaration-pervades. The people conquer uncertainty, hunger, and -20 degree temperatures by drinking huge quantities of black-market vodka and reveling...
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King Tony shocks with raw truth and strong opinions as he lures you on eye opening excursions through the flamboyant club scene of Atlanta, Georgia, Gritty streets of Durham, North Carolina and the glamorous Hip Hop industry. As the saying goes......"More money more problems." Sex, Drugs, Controversy and Violence are all part of the show... What really happened between Sean "Diddy" Combs and BMF affiliates? Notorious Biggie Smalls right hand man had...
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En su Ulises, obra clave del modernismo, Joyce hizo añicos las convenciones realistas de la novela burguesa. Creaba un realismo completamente nuevo a partir de la psicología freudiana, el arte de Picasso, la física Einstein, la música de Stravinski, la filosofía de Wittgenstein, reflejando las maneras absolutamente novedosas en que la humanidad comenzaba a entenderse y a entender el mundo la rodea. El monólogo interior joyceano escandalizó,...
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Un enfant sauvé par la littérature et par la lecture
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Un matin, sur le chemin de l'école maternelle, à Paris, une petite fille interroge son père: «Dis papa, pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches ?». La question est innocente et grave. Pourquoi son père boite-t-il, pourquoi ne fait-il pas de vélo, de trottinette...? Le père ne peut pas se dérober. Il faut raconter ce qui est arrivé à sa jambe, réveiller les souvenirs, retourner...
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Published in 1870, this was the first full-length biography of Jane Austen. Written by her nephew, it is filled with loving family remembrances as well as details of social and domestic life in rural England. Austen-Leigh's biography is the most influential source on Austen scholarship outside of Austen's own writings.
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L'écrivain du Maine, comme beaucoup l'appellent, était prédestiné à devenir le meilleur écrivain d'horreur de l'Histoire. C'est ce que nous démontre sa carrière littéraire. En dépit des centaines de refus qu'il dut essuyer à l'époque de ses premières nouvelles et de ses premiers romans, le destin était écrit : le clou qui tenait les lettres de refus finit par tomber. Stephen King commença à écrire à l'âge de huit ans et il publierait...
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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 long-awaited literary biography of the supreme "poets' poet"
John Clare (1793-1864) is the greatest laboring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self, but until now he has never been the subject of a comprehensive literary biography.
Here at last is his full story told by the light of his voluminous work: his birth in poverty, his...
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