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“Nelson” by Carola Oman “Carola Oman had access not only to all of the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century accounts of Nelson's life and battles, but also to primary sources (including Nelson's letters in autograph) which either had never been published or had suffered from unscrupulous editing. With these resources she was able to check, correct
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“Norman Mailer: a double life” by J. Michael Lennon “Michael Lennon knew Mailer for thirty-five years, and in writing this biography, he has had the cooperation of Mailer's late widow, Norris Church, his ex-wives, and all of his children, as well as his sister, Barbara. He also had access to Mailer's vast, unpublished correspondence and
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“A closet full of shadows” by Antonio Gamoneda “Some childhood memories that constitute one of the best stories in Spanish literature. After the death of his mother, Antonio Gamoneda decided to open that cupboard whose contents remained shrouded in shadow and could not be seen and known by anyone other than
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“Tell, men, your story” by Alberto Savinio “Alberto Savinio presented in 1942 the first edition of Tell, men, your story, the most famous of his works, with the following words: “The lives of Miguel de Nostradamus, Eleuterio Venizelos , Felice Cavallotti, Paracelsus, Arnoldo Böcklin, Jules Verne, Vincenzo Gemito, Collodi, Antonio Stradivari, Guillermo Apollinaire, Giuseppe Verdi,
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“Memoirs: A Half-Century of Political Reflection” by Raymond Aron “The last half-century of world history is reviewed by philosopher, writer, sociologist, economist, and political editorialist R aymond Aron. A story free of passion, of a lucidity carried to the last consequences, to recount his life at the age of 78
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“Michel Foucault” by Didier Eribon “Who was this enigmatic and changeable man? How to assess and interpret his work, which step by step collapsed our precarious certainties? And especially, what is the path followed to become Michel Foucault? Extracted from The House of the Book. See also: http://auladefilosofia.net/2005/08/05/didier-eribon-michel-foucault/ http://michel-foucault-archives.org/?Foucault-segun-Didier-Eribon http://www .anagrama-ed.es/titulo/CM_330 http://es.scribd.com/doc/64495828/Didier-Eribon-Michel-Foucault http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Eribon The selected titles
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“Arthur Miller: his life and work” by Martin Gottfried “Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life-a rich life, much
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“Memories of a Catholic girlhood” by Mary McCarthy “This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy's recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering the need to fictionalize for the sake of a good story with the need for honesty, she creates interchapters that
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“A Door to the River” by Barry Gifford “After two decades of writing, A Door to the River, a mature work set in 1950s and early 60s America, is possibly the book Barry Gifford was destined to write. A mosaic of memories, a work of the imagination, whose landscape is that of a
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“A picture book of Jesse Owens” by David A. Adler & illustrated by Robert Castilla “Jesse Owens started life as a poor sharecropper's son and through hard work, skill, and determination, grew up to become an award-winning sprinter and champion of the long jump. During the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, he won four gold medals,