Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

'From an early age, locked doors, high fences and the secrets kept by businesses, buildings and people, fascinated me. I wanted...

For many years, Camilla was portrayed in a poor light, blamed by the public for the break-up of the marriage between Prince...

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and...

"I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy, and you were to be one of the many graceful figures in it."
While imprisoned...

'Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and...

Solomon Northup's memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities...

An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world's most...

"Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me." A standout among slave testimonies, the Narrative of William...

Martha Griffith Browne, a Southern slave-owner who became wedded to the cause of emancipation, wrote this "autobiography" of Ann,...

A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-sacrifice sweetens character....

A classic story of trying circumstances and enduring hope, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is...

Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of justice. Under a year later, thanks to...

The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a...

Little is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy...

The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal’s travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities...

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...

Life of Dante brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni...

This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called...

Rossini’s success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu,...

In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy...

Follows the text of the first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1938. Contains over 20 pages of notes

After travelling...

The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels – on the run from the authorities of his native Venice...

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

The funny, frank and full autobiography of the nation's favourite comedian.

'It's the first time I've done this. Other people...

April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape...

The inspiring memoir from TV traveller Simon Reeve's life of amazing adventures in over 120 countries and the most remote and...

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and...