1,601円 'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for mo...

195円 Example in this ebook CHAPTER I. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE,ーWHICH THE READER, IF IN A GREAT HURRY, OR IF IT BE HIS PRACTICE TO READ AGAINST TIME, CAN SKIP. I have often debated in my mind whether I should give to the world, or for ever lock up within the secrecy of my own breast, the history of the a...

195円 Example in this ebook   CHAPTER IV. THE MISER'S CHILDREN. It will scarcely be supposed that, with the passion of covetousness gnawing at my heart, I had space or convenience for any other feeling. But Abram Skinner had loved his children; and to this passion I was introduced, as well as ...

2,254円 Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized ...

1,088円 From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English Did you know that the Japanese language has a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? O...

195円 In the compiling of this little book, I am deeply indebted for historical data, etc., to John Cooke, M.A., the Messrs. Black, Lord Macaulay, the Four Masters, and many others, from whose writings I have made extracts; and for photographs to Messrs. W. Lawrence, T. Glass, and Commissioner Walker. ...

2,122円 In Blaze Orange, photographer Travis Dewitz captures the joy, excitement, and camaraderie of deer hunting in Wisconsin. A lone hunter in a tree stand as dawn arrives. A girl and her grandfather scanning a field in the fresh snow. Tired hunters laughing around the evening fire back at camp. These ...

2,547円 First published in 1996, Mary Street Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographers. Alinder is a respected scholar, and also had a close connection to Adams, serving as his chief assistant in the last five years of his life. The p...

300円 Some of the most famous artists of the world never achieved fame, or even recognition, during their lifetimes. They worked in relative obscurity and often in tragic circumstances. And although those artists produced works that now grace the walls of some of the most hallowed museums, they never l...

2,200円 Das Glamourpaar der wilden Zwanziger. Er gab einer Epoche ihren Namen. Sie war die Hauptfigur in all seinen Romanen. Zusammen waren sie das Traumpaar der Jazz-Ära und der "lost generation": Erfolgsautor F. Scott Fitzgerald und seine Frau Zelda forderten das Leben heraus, suchten das Glück und end...

2,200円 Zum 200. Geburtstag des unsterblichen Opernkomponisten. Aida, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdis große Opern sind von zeitloser Faszination. Ihre Heldinnen und Helden dienen als Spiegel der Realität - und sind doch Ausdruck einer Wahrheit, die Verdi neu erfinden wollte....

195円 A few years ago it occurred to me that there were living on the same planet and at the same time as myself some interesting people whom I had never seen and did not know so much about as I should. Since they or I might die at any moment, I determined not to delay longer. So I prepared a list of t...