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Published in 1923, My Universities is the final instalment in the autobiographical trilogy by five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Despite his failed attempts to enter the university at Kazan, Gorky forges an education of his own as he encounters an unusual array of characters–revolutionaries, religious fanatics, theological students and eccentric schoolteachers. Snatching cherished moments for reading books, a relief from the drudgery of his work in a bakery, Gorky comes to see the superficiality of a formal education.

Katherine Ryan is back with a new book, First Born Daughter exploring the psychology and reality of what it means to be a woman, a wife and a daughter today. Filled with Katherine's outspoken humour and wit, expect home truths, real talk and Katherine's inimitable honest opinions around the topics of women's rights, parenting, health, ageing and so much more that Katherine is at the heart of as she navigates the world we live in today.

Beth McDonough spent two decades chasing truth on our TV screens. From 9/11 to the killing of George Floyd, she stood at the heart of America's biggest tragedies, exposing corruption and giving victims a voice. She clawed her way from tiny-town rookie to a high-profile crime and justice reporter, known for her fearlessness, her storytelling, and her refusal to back down. But behind the polished on-air persona was a secret she could no longer outrun. Beth's own life imploded under the weight of her alcoholism.

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of...

画家を志すひとりの「サムライ」が、ヒッピーと共に南仏で過ごした10年間の青春の記録。 厳しい気候の中、強いミストラルが吹きすさぶ南仏・セヴェンヌ。この地で25歳から35歳まで過ごした作者が、

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

それでも、ありうべき未来へ! コロナ時代に顕在化した政治的無責任、社会基盤の崩壊、人心の動揺…。「時代の神経」である作家の感応力が、深く見つめる。リアルでありながら、理想を手放さない稀有な思考。危機の時代の羅針盤。

仕事を通じて、そしてプライベートにおいて、寺山修司と親交のあった著者が、寺山修司の素顔や情熱やその思想を、自身の記憶と共に詳細に語る。 天才と呼ばれた男の半生…その中にある頑なな信念と苦悩、そして晩年における病魔との闘い… 寺山修司の作品が、唯一無二の存在感を持つ所以、そして寺山修司の職業が「寺山修司」である所以が、著者の記憶の中に静かに、しかしはっきりと刻まれている。 本オーディオブックは、今まで知ることの出来なかった寺山修司の素顔を、そして著者の北川氏だからこそ知ることの出来た寺山修司の「強さと弱さ」を、ゆっくりと静かに語りかける。 寺山修司を知る上で、これ以上の「入門」は他に類を見ない程の内容となっている。 ※本商品は『寺山修司入門』(春日出版刊 北川登園著ISBN:978-4-86321-130-8 309頁893円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。(C)2009 Takanobu kitagawa

The last book that Woolf saw to publication in 1940, this stunning biography charts Fry’s early years and education, through to his prominent role in pioneering Post-Impressionism in Britain and the legacy he left behind. Woolf elegantly explores Fry’s intellectual pursuits and artistic philosophy, offering great insight into his exhibitions and literary endeavours. She also paints a nuanced and candid portrait of the man behind the artist, delving into Fry’s relationships and personal demons, creating a poignant tribute to the deeply sensitive and complex soul that Woolf came to know.

Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers, and assorted Middle Americans.

Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more “Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from...

Autobiografie van de grootste sportschoenenmaker ter wereld. Phil Knight richtte in 1964 samen met hardloopcoach Bill Bowerman Blue Ribbon Sports op, in het begin als distributeur voor de Japanse schoenmaker Onitsuka Tiger. Ze begonnen met een startkapitaal van slechts $1200. In 1971 ging het bedrijf verder als Nike Inc. Knight wilde het oorspronkelijk Dimension 6 noemen. Jeff Johnson, Knights eerste werknemer, verzon de naam Nike – uitgesproken als naikie.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...

The author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has been writing for over 40 years, is published in 97 countries and in more than 33 languages. He joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to talk about This Was a Man, the final novel in his best-selling Clifton Chronicles series.

News is to the mind as sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic form of information - news. He shows the damage it does to our concentration and well-being and how a misplaced sense of duty can misdirect our behaviour.

Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street...

Hugh Fraser is a man of many talents. He will probably be best known to you as an actor; he played Captin Hastings to David Suchet’s Poirot on over forty occasions. But he’s also been a musician and a composer and now, having narrated over 90 Agatha Christie audiobooks, he’s writing his own crime fiction. Hugh visits the Audible Studios to discuss his crime series, his pedigree as an audiobook narrator, and his time starring in the Inspector Maigret TV adaptations.

Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography...

Toni Morrison has touched an enormous swath of our national and global society through her writing. She has attained the highest heights in literature—including the Nobel Prize—and has earned her place in the literary canon, ranking among the most important American writers of all time. In Reading Toni Morrison, Professor A.J. Verdelle of Morgan State University will bring new insight and context to the work of an American literary master, one whose project was ultimately to write about Black people and their experiences through their own eyes.

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