A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the pains and triumphs of his adult life. Robert Lowell’s Memoirs is the renowned poet’s most personal prose.
Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is the now-legendary autobiography of ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1822-1885), 18th president of ...
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Picking up where How I Grew left off and unfinished at the time of her death in 1989, Intellectual Memoirs is a vivid snapshot of a distinctive place and time—New York in the late 1930s—and the forces that shaped Mary McCarthy’s life ...
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.
Long unavailable in the U.S., "Unreliable Memoirs" is being made available to American readers.
What motivates someone to dedicate their lives to chimpanzees? How does that reflect on our own species? This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers.
Keeping track was not easy. It was well past midnight when Brad appeared. “I heard you had a question about your medications?” he asked. "Yeah," I said. “Tarceva wasn't ordered. Do you mind ordering it?" “I decided to take you offit.
This collection of poetry and prose, thoughtfully illustrated and printed on colored paper, is infused with grace and playfulness.
Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.
"First published in French by Futuropolis in 2015"--Copyright page.