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Author
Series
Works volume 4
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981, c1980
Physical Desc
xxx, 219 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton).
In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent...
4) Happening
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she...
Author
Language
English
Description
This volume "really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists", written by American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy, Stephen King (b. 1947). The first third of the book contains King's memoir, which includes heartfelt tidbits about his brother, mother and his long battles with alcohol and drug addiction. The second part of the book, "On Writing," is where...
11) Looking back
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xvi, 185 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) Life sketches
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 377 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped the course of history and changed how we see the world. Their remarkable stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose...
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