A Writer's Recollections
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
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A Writer's Recollections; In Two Volumes
Author: Humphry Ward
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-05
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 3387332238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Recollections of My Nonexistence
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0593083334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.
A Writer ́s Recollections
Author: Humphry Ward
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-05
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 3732643573
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman
Author: Diane di Prima
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2002-03-26
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0140231587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
A Writer's Recollections: The Memoir of Mrs. Humphry Ward Reviewed by Rebecca West
Author: Rebecca West
Publisher: Full Well Ventures
Published: 2024-02-20
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Writer's Recollections," a book review by Rebecca West, from the December 1918 issue of "The Bookman" magazine, discusses a book of that title, authored by Mrs. Humphry Ward, a woman novelist of the 19th century Victorian era, who offers her autobiographical memoir of a literary life in contact with prominent literary personages of the Victorian era.
Recollections of the Golden Triangle
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1994-01-18
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780802152008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA provocative novel by the most influential living French writer, Recollections of the Golden Triangle is a tour de force: a literary thriller constructed of wildly diverse elements--fantasy and dream, erotic invention, and the stuff of popular fiction and movies taken to its farthest limits. A secret door that is opened slightly by an electronic device, a beautiful hanged factory girl, a pale young aristocrat whose blood apparently nourishes his vampiric lover, the evil Dr. Morgan who conducts his experiments in "tertiary dream behavior," the beautiful and sinister women from the world of horror films, and the investigating police, who are not all what they seem to be, are just some of the ingredients of this intriguing new novel by the French master of the intellectual thriller, whose novels and films have effectively changed the way we can look at the "real" world today. Recollections of the Golden Triangle challenges the reader to find his own meaning in its descriptions, clues, and contradictions, and to play detective by assembling the pieces of the fictional puzzle.
Virginia Woolf
Author: John Henry Stape
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780877454946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe difficulty of a balanced viewpoint for some of her memoirists, a demanding enough task at the best of times, was compounded by the enthusiasm with which she sometimes donned a mask and by conversation whose notorious brilliance veered at moments towards the flamboyant, the wildly inaccurate, or the cruel.
Recollections
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-04
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0786724226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of "the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," known as logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials in four concentration camps during the War; and reflects on the celebrity brought by the publication of Man's Search for Meaning in 1945.
Burning the Days
Author: James Salter
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-02-16
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0307781712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired. Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women. After resigning from the Air Force, Salter begins a second life, becoming a writer in the New York of the 1960s. Soon films beckon. There are vivid portraits of actors, directors, and producers--Polanski, Robert Redford, and others. Here also, more important, are writers who were influential, some by their character, like Irwin Shaw, others because of their taste and knowledge. Ultimately Burning the Days is an illumination of what it is to be a man, and what it means to become a writer. Only once in a long while--Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory or Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa--does a memoir of such extraordinary clarity and power appear. Unconventional in form, Burning the Days is a stunning achievement by the writer The Washington Post Book World said "inhabits the same rarefied heights as Flannery O'Connor, Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams and John Cheever" --a rare and unforgettable book. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James Salter's All That Is.
