Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374538125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Complete Memoirs
Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374538125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374538125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Peter Cushing
Author: Peter Cushing
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0957648146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Cushing was widely known as 'the gentleman of horror', his kind and sensitive nature a sharp contrast with the sinister roles that dominated his work from the 1950s onwards. This is Cushing's own account of his remarkable career, and the devastating loss he suffered following the death of his wife.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0957648146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Peter Cushing was widely known as 'the gentleman of horror', his kind and sensitive nature a sharp contrast with the sinister roles that dominated his work from the 1950s onwards. This is Cushing's own account of his remarkable career, and the devastating loss he suffered following the death of his wife.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
Author: Giacomo Casanova
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ...
Author: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster & Company
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster & Company
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without rival in American literature, and his autobiography deserves a place among the very best in the genre.
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789128048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Memoirs of George Sherston brings together in one memorable volume the three widely-hailed “autobiographical novels” of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Set against the dark background of World War this extraordinary trilogy follows the author’s wartime fortunes and examines his emotional growth under the cruel pressures of hand-to-hand combat in the field. Perhaps the most striking qualities of Sassoon’s record are its honesty, its simplicity and its lack of pretentiousness and false heroics. It is, after all, a deeply personal account of a complete phase of a man’s life, spanning in continuous narrative form the period from the author’s childhood to the war’s end. The trilogy begins with Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, a fond reminiscence of boyhood and adolescence set against the background of the author’s rural English home. Full of the scent of leather and the huntsman cries on a frosty autumn morning, the scene is set as the world moves slowly towards war. In the second volume, The Memoirs of an Infantry Office, the mood deepens. A classic among war books, it tells of the author’s steady disillusionment with the Army and of his ultimate rebellion against the cruel realities of war. Finally, in the last of the three, Sherston’s Progress, set in an asylum for shell-shocked officers, the author is able to accept these realities and to resolve his emotional turmoil. Through it all, there is always the presence of Sassoon—the fluid, sensitive prose, the fine perceptions of the poet—yet spoken here in the voice of the average man. With charm and humor and quiet understatement, he has managed to articulate the hidden feelings of any sensitive man who in the normal course of his life is suddenly exposed to the nightmare of war.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789128048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Memoirs of George Sherston brings together in one memorable volume the three widely-hailed “autobiographical novels” of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon. Set against the dark background of World War this extraordinary trilogy follows the author’s wartime fortunes and examines his emotional growth under the cruel pressures of hand-to-hand combat in the field. Perhaps the most striking qualities of Sassoon’s record are its honesty, its simplicity and its lack of pretentiousness and false heroics. It is, after all, a deeply personal account of a complete phase of a man’s life, spanning in continuous narrative form the period from the author’s childhood to the war’s end. The trilogy begins with Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, a fond reminiscence of boyhood and adolescence set against the background of the author’s rural English home. Full of the scent of leather and the huntsman cries on a frosty autumn morning, the scene is set as the world moves slowly towards war. In the second volume, The Memoirs of an Infantry Office, the mood deepens. A classic among war books, it tells of the author’s steady disillusionment with the Army and of his ultimate rebellion against the cruel realities of war. Finally, in the last of the three, Sherston’s Progress, set in an asylum for shell-shocked officers, the author is able to accept these realities and to resolve his emotional turmoil. Through it all, there is always the presence of Sassoon—the fluid, sensitive prose, the fine perceptions of the poet—yet spoken here in the voice of the average man. With charm and humor and quiet understatement, he has managed to articulate the hidden feelings of any sensitive man who in the normal course of his life is suddenly exposed to the nightmare of war.
One Man in His Time
Author: Serge Obolensky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Cosmopolitan adventures of a former Russian prince, now a New York hotel executive.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Cosmopolitan adventures of a former Russian prince, now a New York hotel executive.
The Complete Memoirs of Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States
Author: John Henry Eaton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek War, 1813-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek War, 1813-1814
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Memoirs
Author: Pablo Neruda
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Poets, Chilean
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
MEMOIRS is as full of Neruda's passionate, volatile and profoundly generous personality as lovers of his poetry would expect. Lorca, Vallejo, Picasso, Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung, Castro and Allende all appear here too, making Neruda's a life story of truly universal reach and significance, as well as the richest account we have of Latin American history, politics, art and literature.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Poets, Chilean
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
MEMOIRS is as full of Neruda's passionate, volatile and profoundly generous personality as lovers of his poetry would expect. Lorca, Vallejo, Picasso, Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung, Castro and Allende all appear here too, making Neruda's a life story of truly universal reach and significance, as well as the richest account we have of Latin American history, politics, art and literature.
Memoirs
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs
The Memoirs of Alcheringia
Author: Wayland Drew
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345335005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345335005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description