James Joyce: A Biography
8 best books like James Joyce: A Biography (Gordon Bowker): 84, Charing Cross Road, Collected Fictions, Dubliners, Me: Stories of My Life, Jude the Obscure, James Joyce, Il rogo di Berlino, We Remember the Holocaust
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140143505 |
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0140286802 |
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through...
| Author | James Joyce |
| ISBN | 0192839993 |
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well,...
| Author | Katharine Hepburn |
| ISBN | 0345410092 |
Like listening to your grandma (your crazy, crazy grandma) tell you stories. Except that your grandma is Katharine Hepburn. Except that the stories are replete with digressions about that candy shop she used to visit as a child(of course, it's been torn down now), and that time she went to Italy with...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 0486452433 |
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| Author | Richard Ellmann |
| ISBN | 0195033817 |
Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's his deep mastery of the...
| Author | Helga Schneider |
| ISBN | 8845913473 |
Non vi parlerò dei personaggi e non vi racconterò la storia narrata tra le pagine di questo libro , ben descritta già dal titolo . Non vi racconterò di Helga e del piccolo fratello Peter , e del nonno acquisito Opa , l’unico in grado di dar amore a questa bambina . Non vi descriverò le molteplici vicissitudini...
We Remember the Holocaust
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0805037152 |
We Remember the Holocaust chronicles the Holocaust in the voices of those who survived it. They tell us about Jewish life in Europe before the 1930s and about the violence of Hitler's rise to power. They describe the humiliations of Nazi rule, the struggle to keep families together, the fight for survival...
