The Book Of Life - Couverture rigide

Claxton, Eve

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091900336 ISBN 13 : 9780091900335

Editeur : Ebury Press, 2005

Synopsis

An engrossing anthology of the finest memoir writing through the centuries - from the world's greatest writers, artists, poets, scientists, showmen, statesmen, saints, swindlers and superstars

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eve Claxton is a writer and journalist for a variety of English and American publications including Vogue, Tatler and the Daily Mail. After gaining a First in English and American Literature at Manchester University, she lived in Hong Kong and New York. This is her third book, her most recent being a guidebook to the best bookshops of New York.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A uniquely engrossing anthology of memoirs by some of the finest, funniest and most talented figures in history. Beginning at childhood and progressing through adulthood, if not necessarily maturity, The Book of Life offers the literary journey of a lifetime, in the company the world's greatest writers, artists, poets, scientists, showmen, statesmen, saints, swindlers and superstars...

Includes extracts by: JR Ackerly, Muhammed Ali, Marlon Brando, Casanova Charles Chaplin, Jung Chang, Winston Churchill, JM Coetzee, Sara Coleridge, Brian Keenan, Thomas de Quincy, Roald Dahl, Dave Eggers, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, MFK Fisher, Maxim Gorky, Alec Guinness, PJ Kavanagh, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Neruda, Amos Oz, Lorna Sage, Gertrude Stein, Stendhal, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Tobias Wolff, WB Yeats amongst many others

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

The Book of Life is an intensely captivating, diverse collection of the best-written memoir and autobiography through history. Organised into four parts this unusally enriching book begins in childhood and takes us on a thought-provoking journey through the length of a life.

From Charlie Chaplin's dandily dressed walks through Victorian London and Alan Bennett's wartime childhood in Yorkshire; through the day Muhammed Ali discovered boxing and Gandhi experimented with cigarettes; to Primo Levi's capture by Facist Militia at 21 and Katherine Hepburn's first film job at the same age; onto Nabokov on becoming a late father, Darwin on his lifelong love - his work - and Nelson Mandela on being released from prison at 71.

With insights spanning professions, generations and continents this is a uniquely enjoyable immersion in some of the world's best, and most personal, writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ebury Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091900336
• ISBN 13: 9780091900335
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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