The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction??a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in […]
For everyone who enjoyed the inspiration and wisdom of Morrie Schwartz in Mitch Albom??s moving bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, here is a new paperback edition of Morrie??s own book, presenting the philosophies by which he triumphantly lived, even as he faced the end of his life. For decades Morrie Schwartz engaged his Brandeis University students […]
V.S. Naipaul once described his purpose as an author as nothing less than a commitment to deliver the truth. One of the worlds greatest, and most controversial, living writers, he has written extensively about the enduring economic, cultural, and psychological effects of colonialism, particularly its assaults on individual identity. In Naipauls Truth, Lillian Feder, noted […]
Eric Lomax, a British army soldier, was captured by the Japanese during the Singapore campaign of 1942. A railroad buff since a child, he took strange pleasure in his work as a POW on the Burma-Siam Railroad, which was later the subject of the film Bridge Over the River Kwai. When his captors discovered his […]
Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar (b. 1820) was one of Indias greatest intellectuals and activists of the nineteenth century. He was born into a poor Brahmin family and faced poverty all through his childhood. He was known variously as an educator, academic, philosopher, reformer and philanthropist. He started his career as the principal of Fort William College […]
A sizzling, sexy biography of the blockbuster author whose life of excess was as racy as one of his own novels. During his fifty-year career Harold Robbins, the godfather of the airport novel, sold approximately 750 million copies of his books worldwide. His seventh novel, The Carpetbaggers, a steamy tale of sex, greed, and corruption […]
Harry Potter is loved throughout the world-so is his creator. Joanne Kathleen (J.K.) Rowling is a true wizard, a woman who has the ability to recall vividly her days as a child and capture those wild, wonderful, difficult times-an ability that helps make her creation, Harry Potter, seem so real. In this revealing look, fans […]