Biografii, autobiografii

Hinda was eighteen years old when an axe crashed through the front door of her home in Poland. Nazi soldiers swarmed inside and herded the family into an army truck and hauled them away for one lone …

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), author of King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain and She, was no stranger to the continent where his bestsellers were set. He lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, …

The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson is a groundbreaking story that captures the tension between tradition and modernity, set against the backdrop of America’s evolving cultural landscape. The novel …

WINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARD A multigenerational literary memoir that sheds new light on one of the Arab world’s most renowned Romantic poets, through the eyes of his granddaughter Ibrahim Na …

This captivating collection of short stories offers a profound exploration of the human experience through a series of engaging narratives. Each tale, from *The Wanderer of Istanbul* to *Redemption*, …

In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the …

A forensic psychiatrist’s corrective and innovative diagnosis of the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway’s suicide Hemingway’s Brain is the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize–w …

प्रेमचंद: जीवन और साहित्य रिया सिंह द्वारा लिखित यह पुस्तक हिंदी और उर्दू साहित्य के महानतम लेखक प्रेमचंद के जीवन और साहित्य का गहन अध्ययन प्रस्तुत करती है। इसमें प्रेमचंद के बचपन से लेकर उनके साहित् …

A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. …

Winner of the 2025 Lewis P. Simpson Award In Lives Revised, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick engages the entangled life stories of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath to recover details, nuances, and …