496円 Albert Geiger’s autobiography tells of a lifetime in the fashion industry. From his humble start as a milliner to his illustrious work in couture clothing, Bert’s many successes in design are owed to his indomitable motivation to have his own fashion label. His styles outlived the trends of the t...

605円 'A Quiet Place in Dust & Dirt: Ruined Farms and Cottages in Ceredigion 1989 - 2016' is an appraisal, travelogue, photographic monologue, personal exploration and appreciation of the ruined cottages, farms and other dwellings throughout Ceredigion with photographs illustrating the houses therein m...

1,326円 Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised in Houston, Dorothy Hood won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1930s, then worked as a model in New York to earn money for classes at the Art Students League. On a whim, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 and end...

200円 Robert Falconer, school-boy, aged fourteen, thought he had never seen his father; that is, thought he had no recollection of having ever seen him. But the moment when my story begins, he had begun to doubt whether his belief in the matter was correct. And, as he went on thinking, he became more a...

200円 Honoré de Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850, was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

200円 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Per...

2,818円 Thomas Nast (1840–1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast’s legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the ma...

500円 Laissez-vous guider pour un merveilleux voyage dans la Russie du XIXe siècle Théophile Gautier, (1811-1872), le « fils du soleil », s’émerveille devant les prestiges de la capitale des neiges qu’il appelle « l’Athènes du Nord ». Ébloui par les palais et les cathédrales aux teintes pastel, il glis...

6,400円 Zum 100. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Hildesheimer am 9. Dezember 2016: Die erste umfassende Biographie eines der wichtigsten Autoren nach 1945. Wolfgang Hildesheimer ist nicht nur einer der wichtigsten deutschen Schriftsteller der Nachkriegszeit, sondern er war auch eine zentrale Stimme des politisch...

1,500円 Extrait : "Il y a quelque trente ans un curieux de choses du théâtre, de Manne, mettait à exécution une idée assez ingénieuse et publiait sous ce titre : La Troupe de Voltaire, un livre dans lequel il remettait en lumière et, en les groupant, faisait connaître tous les acteurs qui avaient été, à ...

1,500円 Extrait : "Marie-Anne Pagès était née à Paris, vers 1730. La date de sa naissance est encore plus imprécise que celle de sa mort ; aucun document officiel ne fixera la postérité sur son état-civil. On sait simplement qu'elle était fille d'un savetier pour dames du cul-de-sac Dauphine, près le pas...

3,708円 Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious thinking, and anti-authoritarian or anarchist protest against the rising power of bureaucratic moder...