Självbiografier

The Northern Song (960-1126) was one of the most transformative periods in Chinese literary history, characterized by the emergence of printing and an ensuing proliferation of …

"e;Walden. Yesterday I came here to live."e; That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to …

From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' …

For fans of H is for Hawk and Wild, Skybound is a deeply personal memoir about learning to fly.

Paul Florensky (1882-1937) pretre, theologien, philosophe, mathematicien et inventeur, est l'une des figures les plus fascinantes de la Russie du XXe siecle. Souvent compare a …

Mit dem dritten Teil seiner Autobiographie schließt Elias Canetti seine großangelegte Entwicklungsgeschichte eines Schriftstellers ab. Das Augenspielbesteht in vielen Passagen aus …

Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling and frank account of one woman’s life and loves in 1960s East …

'An exuberant, inspiring memoir' Guardian'Brilliant...A high-spirited, exhilarating memoir' Wall Street Journal'In Joyride, the takeaway often has as much to do with the art of …

The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. …

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on …