The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States V2
by George Tucker
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume IX (Annotated)
by Jonathan Swift
In this surprisingly comic memoir, a columnist for the New York Press relates his story as a young writer surviving the onslaught of retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disease which makes him go blind.
Nature Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry (Salem)) (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler Part 1
by Benjamin F Butler
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (Classic Reprint)
by Joseph Cottle
Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time. To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in the 60s, to participating in wild orgies and getting his nose broken while chronicling life with the Hell's Angels, to founding the Freak Power Party and running for sheriff of Aspen in 1970. A v...
Conversations with William T. Vollmann (Literary Conversations)
Across fiction, journalism, ethnography, and history, William T. Vollmann's oeuvre-which includes a "prostitution trilogy," a septology (Seven Dreams) about encounters between first North Americans and European colonists, and a more than three-thousand-page philosophical treatise on violence-is ambitious as it is dazzling. Conversations with William T. Vollmann collects twenty-nine interviews, from early press coverage in Britain where his career first took flight, to in-depth visits to his writ...
In 1992, American author Marilyn French, a smoker for 48 years, was diagnosed as having cancer of the oesophagus, which is almost always fatal, and was told she had only a year to live. Five years later, having battled with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, a heart attack and a breaking back, she was still alive - and, remarkably, her body showed no sign of cancer. This is her account of the fight against disease and death.
Shadowlands (Firecrest Books) (Hodder Christian Paperbacks)
by Brian Sibley
The story of the hidden emotional life of C.S.Lewis and of his marriage at the age of 59 to Joy Davidman, a Jewish divorcee with two children from Brooklyn, New York. It also recounts the lives of C.S.Lewis and Joy Davidman prior to their meeting and marriage, drawing on their journals, correspondence and published works.
Stephen King is one of the world's most successful authors, with a long list of hit novels to his name including Carrie, Misery, The Shining and Doctor Sleep. Here he discusses his life, his writing career and his many achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archives: Bookshelf, BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast 11 November 1984, featuring Hunter Davies); John Dunn, BBC Radio 2 (first broadcast 24 August 1998, featuring John Dunn); Front Row, BBC Radio 4 (first broadcast 28 D...