One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales.
Bursting onto the pop music scene during the British electronic pop craze at the beginning of the 80s, Depeche Mode continues to bring music to the masses through their albums and world tours. This biography aims to shed light on the trials and tensions that the band has lived through.
Hardly the buffoon he is frequently made out to be, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was an able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen and who knew how to cooperate peacefully with foreign governments when it suited him.
This examination of the legendary actor's life, art and controversial politics within the context of their times, presents a definitive portrait of Charlie Chaplin.
Silent screen goddess Clara Bow was the embodiment of the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood's first sex symbol and a natural talent with an independent heart.
This anthology collects 51 of Stein's most experimental poems, stories, portraits, and plays.
This book offers a sympathetic and judicious portrait of Adam Clayton Powell (1908-1972), the flamboyant reverend and unapologetically arrogant yet morally principled champion of civil rights. This biography effectively chronicles Senator Powell's rise and fall.
This definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites.
The World War II commander largely responsible for Russia's victories at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Berlin-Marshal Georgi Zhukov-describes these epic conflicts in his own words.
This work tells the true story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - a young sociopathic Southern couple gunned down by authorities after a two-year crime spree that left twelve people dead.
Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus his subsequent debates with Robert Peary after he had returned to his homeland.
This is the fascinating and horrifying history of the Krupp family and it's armament factories which supplied Germany's war machine from cannons to tanks, guns and U-boats.
The last year in the life of British general James Wolfe.
Written with Lead offers a compelling narrative history of twenty-one tragic episodes in American history-all involving firearms, heroes, and the ongoing public fascination with guns and gunfighters.
Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask.
Details the major aspect of Brazilian popular music and its relation to the formation of national identity in Brazil includes a wealth of musical history.
Riccards focuses on how the abilities, goals, and personalities of presidents have shaped the the United States in the past 100 years. This edition is updated to include chapters on Clinton and George W. Bush.
Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection.
The historic voyage of the H.M.S. bounty culminates in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh.
Sheaffer's two-volume biography of American platwright Eugene O'Neill-the second volume of which won a Pulitzer Prize-makes use of previously unknown documents and numerous interviews to present an insightful look at O'Neill's troubled life.
Author and explorer Neider writes about his third trip to Antarctica, telling of the beauty of the desolate land, its history, and the current ecological debates surrounding it.
The Prussian general and military theoretician Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz spent much of his life combatting Napoleon's army, recording his martial insights in the demanding book On War. Parkinson details the events of Clausewitz's life, and aids readers in understanding Clausewitz's writings.
This examination of the life and work of writer Lawrence by prolific biographer Meyers looks at Lawrence's tempestuous marriage and the intersections between his fiction (Lady Chatterly's Lover, Women in Love, Sons and Lovers) and the life that inspired them.
Based heavily on original Russian sources, this biography of Czar Ivan IV examines the plots, massacres, and poisonings that earned Ivan his famous epithet.
Infamous for corruption during his reign and for his marriage to the sexually voracious empress Theodora, Justinian lived in a remarkable age that saw the ascendancy of Constantinople and numerous wars around the Roman Empire's eastern borders.
Tap dance innovators and stars Harold and Fayard Nicholas are the focus of this biography that not only tells of their performances with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway and their many appearances in films, but also examines their choreographic contributions to the art form of tap.
Schaff, a Union soldier, gives an eyewitness account of the Confederate retreat and defeat in 1865 with clarity and surprising sympathy.
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