Títulos en Escritores

Una vida tan llena de genialidades como de escándalos múltiples. Tremendo escritor, poeta y dramaturgo, este notable irlandés autor de clásicos como El retrato de Dorian Gray, o El gigante Egoísta, fue considerado una figura de brillo pleno en el Londres victoriano tardío y toda una celebridad de la época debido a su ingenio y corrosivo sentido del humor.

Scritta tra il 1943 e il 1944, durante la sua militanza nel Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, viene pubblicata nel 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa...

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.

Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, this suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007.

Ritenuto il più grande scrittore horror vivente, Stephen King è l'autore di romanzi più pagato e più prolifico degli ultimi anni. I suoi libri scalano le classifiche nel giro di pochissime settimane e vi restano per mesi, garantendogli la fama di maestro del genere. L'autore ti propone un viaggio nella vita di Stephen King, con un linguaggio coinvolgente e diretto, un tono divulgativo e brillante, per avvicinarti e appassionarti all'universo del maestro del terrore e delle sue storie terrificanti.

In his lifetime, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most widely known man of letters in America, establishing himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and advocate of social reforms. He was considered one of the great orators of the time, and his enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. As a poet and philosopher, he led the Transcendentalist movement, which professes the belief that everything in ouf world is a microcosm of the universe, and in the infinitude of individual man.

Raised in what he affectionately calls "our little honesty cult", Michael Leviton was ingrained with his parents' core philosophy: You do not tell any lies; you do not withhold the truth; and you speak your mind always, regardless of how offensive or hurtful your opinions may be. For young Michael, this freedom to be yourself - despite being bullied and ostracized at school - felt liberating. By the time Leviton was 29 years old, he had told three (what most people would consider) lies in his entire life.

George Orwell was more than just a writer. He was a political and social sage who valued, above all else, individual freedom. His works aren’t just entertainment - they’re cautionary tales and red flags of warning. And if we ever hope to understand threats to freedom and how to stop them, we must learn from them. In these 24 lectures, learn how the man born as Eric Blair forged himself into a writer of international importance and renown.

You may be aware that G. K. Chesterton authored influential Christian biographies and apologetics. But you may not know the larger-than-life Gilbert Keith Chesterton himself - not yet. Equally versed in poetry, novels, literary criticism, and journalism, he addressed politics, culture, and religion with a towering intellect and a soaring wit. Chesterton carried on lively, public discussions with the social commentators of his day, continually challenging them with civility, humility, erudition, and his ever-sharp sense of humor.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.

Amanda ha tenido siempre una mirada aguda e irónica acerca de sí misma y de quienes la rodean: sabe estar sola y acompañada. Sin embargo, en este libro nos revela dos aspectos de su ser menos conocido: su destreza informal para la fabulación: sabe relatar historias breves por medio de un ritmo más seductor que acosador. Y, por otra parte, abandona la guerra cotidiana que libra a cada momento de su vida como artista popular y nos propone a un ser menos glamuroso, pero más humano.

En Juventud, la segunda parte de las memorias noveladas del premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee, el narrador, un estudiante en la Sudáfrica de los años cincuenta, lleva tiempo planeando escapar de su país natal: del sofocante amor de su madre, de un padre cuyos errores lo persiguen y de lo que parece ser una revolución inminente.

Per molti versi, avrei preferito non dover pubblicare questo volume, che non esisterebbe se una delle mie scrittrici preferite - non posso nemmeno incominciare a spiegare l'importanza che ha avuto nella mia vita, professionale ma soprattutto personale, il suo "Orto di un perdigiorno" - non si trovasse in condizioni di salute che non lasciano campo alla speranza.

If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century.  

Because Plath drew so heavily on her own life in both her poetry and her fiction, the outlines of her life are familiar to listeners. Like most writers, Plath changed the facts of her life in her writing. In her determination to be both wife and mother, on the one hand, and teacher and writer on the other, Plath tried simultaneously to fulfill and to fight the conventions that bound women in the 1950s. In this biography, the first to draw on unpublished journals and letters recently made available, Wagner-Martin examines the ironies, contradictions, and achievements of Plath's life.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, su verdadero nombre, es acaso la figura más famosa y conocida de la literatura norteamericana del siglo XIX. Popular humorista e imaginativo escritor estadounidense, sus obras "Tom Sawyer" y "Las Aventuras de Huckleberry Find" destacan en el Olimpo de las letras anglosajona.

Pocos hombres en la historia de la humanidad tan lúcidos, valientes y emprendedores como este francés de alma mundial. Amante de los aviones, literato por vocación y defensor de las causas nobles, con la más famosa de sus obras: "El principito" ha enseñado a los hombres un mensaje que muchos aún no comprenden: La solidaridad.

Come si fa oggi a stare nel mondo? In questo mondo. A trovare un modo, un posto adatto a noi che siamo consapevoli di essere privilegiati ma dobbiamo fare i conti anche coi nostri, di traumi, piccoli o grandi, oltre che con quelli giganteschi di chi è sotto le bombe, di chi è oppresso, povero, svantaggiato. Ci si vergogna a dire che ci si sente soli, ma lo siamo sempre di più. Daria Bignardi lo dice con sincerità, ironia, coraggio. Sente che la solitudine può essere una prigione ma anche un posto da cui ascoltare il battito del cuore del mondo. Il mondo la chiama e lei parte.

Wer Friedrich Schiller kennt, kennt oft nur einen großen Namen aus dem Deutschunterricht. Doch wie wurde aus einem jungen Militärarzt ein feuriger Dramatiker, der Freiheit und Moral auf die Bühne brachte und damit ganze Generationen prägte? Dieses Hörbuch lädt Sie ein, Schiller nicht nur zu lesen, sondern zu verstehen, als Dichter, Philosoph und Historiker, der Sprache in Leidenschaft verwandelte und aus Gedanken Theater machte.

Wer Franz Kafka liest, betritt eine Welt, in der Türen sich schließen, Regeln sich verschieben und ein einziger Satz das Gefühl auslöst, beobachtet und beurteilt zu werden. Dieses Hörbuch lädt Sie zu einer Kulturreise ein und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Basiswissen zu Leben und Werk Kafkas. Sie entdecken, wie aus Alltag, Bürokratie und innerer Unruhe eine Prosa entstand, die Angst, Komik und Erkenntnis zugleich erzeugt.