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From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. - "Scintillating ... One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that …
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind …
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection that reveals what …
This is a specially edited shorter version of the title published in 1990. It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture …
**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's …
Collects stories such as 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People', 'More Women, More Children, More Quickly', and 'How I Loved the War'.
Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls …
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the …
At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English--but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept …
In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that …