Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Christopher Isherwood.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Thomas Wolfe.

Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work On The Road, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.

"A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr."--

"An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless...

"When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the Dutch Jews. But when the occupation authorities finally come to the family home a split-second decision will have devastating consequences. Marga Minco's authobiographical novel "Bitter Herbs' is a Dutch classic that has been translated into more than fifteen languages. This deceptively simple and...

Gertrude Morel is locked in a deeply unsatisfying marriage and invests her emotional energy in her children, especially her eldest son, William. When tragedy strikes, and the focus of Gertrude's life shifts, history threatens to repeat itself as another of her sons is torn between maternal love and the desire to strike out into the world. Lawrence's largely autobiographical masterpiece is an emotional cauldron dealing with passion, fulfilment and...

"Drawing on the remarkable events of her own life, ... author and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck tells the story of Ditke, a young Jewish girl living in Hungary during World War II"--Page 4 of cover.

Autobiographical short stories. ±Este libro es lo m̀s parecido a una autobiograf̕a fragmentada. [...] El lector acabar̀ obteniendo la m̀xima informaci̤n de m̕ como cineasta, como fabulador y el modo en que mi vida hace que una cosa y las otras se mezclen¿. As̕ define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducci̤n que sirve tambǐn de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias ̌pocas, desde finales de la...

"An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it -- 30th anniversary edition. Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. But when she is six years old, she is driven to the town of Kalamak, in the interior of British Columbia. Seepeetza will now spend the next several years of her life at an Indian residential school. The nuns call her Martha and cut her hair....