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Il n'existe aucun mot dans la langue française pour désigner la fratrie au féminin. Un oubli dont on peut aisément déterminer les causes : une fratrie uniquement composée de filles a longtemps été considérée comme un échec dans nos sociétés où la descendance passe par les fils. Pourtant, des Petites Filles modèles à Kate et Pippa Middleton, de Simone et Hélène de Beauvoir à Venus et Serena Williams, des sept Pléiades antiques aux sœurs Halliwell de Charmed, les exemples héroïques et ordinaires sont nombreux.

A struggling writer. A city of hidden worlds. A life shaped by memory, poverty, and wonder. In Things Near and Far, celebrated Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machen looks back upon the experiences that shaped his imagination and his long, uncertain path toward a literary life. Beginning with...

Leaving was not the end of the story. After the Door Opened explores what happens after survival, when the environment changes but the body, mind, and emotions are still learning how to catch up. Through deeply personal reflection and honest storytelling, Feliteous Martin explores fear, emotional conditioning, rebuilding identity, parenting while healing, financial independence, nervous system recovery, boundaries, and learning how to trust yourself again after years of survival mode. This is not a book about dramatic transformation overnight.

Warum prägt William Shakespeare die Weltliteratur bis heute so stark, dass seine Komödien, Tragödien und Dichtungen überall gespielt, gelesen und verfilmt werden? Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie direkt an den Ursprung dieser Wirkung und zeigt, wie ein Lyriker und Dramatiker der Neuzeit Figuren erschuf, die uns noch immer spiegeln, trösten und erschüttern, auf der Bühne, im Unterricht und im Alltag. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen, das sofort Orientierung gibt.

Wer war Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wirklich, nur der Dichterfürst der Deutschen oder ein vielseitiges Genie, das Literatur, Politik und Naturwissenschaft so verband, dass daraus Weltliteratur wurde? Dieses Hörbuch öffnet Ihnen den Blick hinter den großen Namen und zeigt, warum Goethe bis heute fasziniert, weil er mit Sprache Denken formte und mit Neugier die Welt befragte.

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.

How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. “Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through...

Exploring more than 100 of the world's most important literary works and the literary geniuses that created them, this book is the perfect introduction to the subject of literature and writing. The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays, and poetry, including...

From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, delve into more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. Each featured novelist, playwright, or poet has biographical entries tracing the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd 'The big bang on Bond books... Beautiful, brilliant' Tony Parsons Goldeneye: the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond. From 1946 until the end...

In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way, he recalls the girls, boys and booze; the friendships and the feuds; the grand struggles and lost causes; and the mistakes and misgivings that have characterised his life.

Brought to you by Penguin. A love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around. From well-worn literary classics to steamy...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin, read by Jill Balcon and David Shaw-Parker. Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest...

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.

James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature.

After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under section two of the Mental Health Act. From hypomania in the Alps, to a complete breakdown and a locked ward in Wakefield, this is a gripping account of how the mind loses touch with reality, how we fall apart and how we can be healed - or not - by treatment. A story of the wonder and intensity of the manic experience, as well as its peril and strangeness, it is shot through with the love, kindness, humour and care of those who deal with someone who becomes dangerously ill.

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.  

On 10th June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy's girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter's fierce love for a parent and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief.

With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time. ‘Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal’ –...

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.