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One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in the Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently researched" - a book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges".
Filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records, J. D. Salinger: A Life presents an extraordinary life that spanned nearly the entire 20th century. Kenneth Slawenski explores Salinger's privileged youth, long obscured by misrepresentation and rumor, revealing the brilliant, sarcastic, vulnerable son of a disapproving father and doting mother and his entrance into a social world where Gloria Vanderbilt dismissively referred to him as "a Jewish boy from New York".
Here too are accounts of Salinger's first broken heart - Eugene O'Neill's daughter, Oona, left him for the much older Charlie Chaplin - and the devastating World War II service of which he never spoke, and which haunted him forever.
J. D. Salinger features all the dazzle of this author's early writing successes, his dramatic encounters with luminaries from Ernest Hemingway to Laurence Olivier to Elia Kazan, his surprising office intrigues with famous New Yorker editors and writers, and the stunning triumph of The Catcher in the Rye, which would both make him world-famous and hasten his retreat into the hills of New Hampshire.
Whether it's revealing the facts of his hasty, short-lived first marriage or his lifelong commitment to Eastern religion, which would dictate his attitudes toward sex, nutrition, solitude, and creativity, J. D. Salinger is this unique author's unforgettable story in full - one that no lover of literature can afford to miss.
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A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eerie and fascinating
- De Jikai Zenshin en 03-19-21
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
- The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
- De: Cory MacLauchlin
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his return to his beloved city, and his descent into paranoia and depression.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth it! Good biography. Informative.
- De French Quarter en 07-09-13
De: Cory MacLauchlin
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
- De: Anne C. Heller
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 337
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Ayn Rand is the author of two phenomenally best-selling ideological novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which have sold over 12 million copies in the United States alone. Through them, she built a right-wing cult following in the late 1950s and became the guiding light of Libertarianism and of White House economic policy in the 1960s and '70s. Her defenses of radical individualism and of selfishness as a "capitalist virtue" have permanently altered the American cultural landscape.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of both Rand and her era
- De Mark en 08-07-10
De: Anne C. Heller
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- De: Gary Cox
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism, combined with his creative and artistic flair, have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high-profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a capitalista biography of Sartre
- De Anonymous User en 01-24-20
De: Gary Cox
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- De: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heyer as a person
- De Jerri C en 06-15-15
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The Fellowship
- The Literary LIves of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- De: Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 26 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J. R. R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis' Oxford rooms and a nearby pub. They read aloud from works in progress, argued about anything that caught their fancy, and gave one another invaluable companionship, inspiration, and criticism.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If You Love Literature...
- De Ray M en 07-14-16
De: Philip Zaleski, y otros
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
- De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eerie and fascinating
- De Jikai Zenshin en 03-19-21
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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The Zhivago Affair
- The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
- De: Peter Finn, Petra Couvée
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an assault on the 1917 Revolution, so he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this to understand Doctor Zhivago and Russia
- De KathrynVB en 10-16-14
De: Peter Finn, y otros
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 922
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- De: Gerald Martin
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, somewhat disappointing narrator.
- De Paola Herrington en 01-08-13
De: Gerald Martin
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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Kierkegaard
- A Single Life
- De: Stephen Backhouse
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of 19th century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern Christianity, and influenced people as diverse as Franz Kafka and Martin Luther King Jr. Though few people today have read his work, that lack of familiarity with the real Kierkegaard is changing with this biography by scholar Stephen Backhouse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Will en 07-11-17
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And So It Goes
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
- De: Charles J. Shields
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Probably only for die hard Vonnegut fans
- De Watery M en 12-22-12
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C. S. Lewis - A Life
- Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
- De: Alister E. McGrath
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis - A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of this Oxford don, who spent his days teaching English literature to the brightest students in the world and his spare time writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awakening my curiosity and desire to read more!
- De Pearl Glacier en 03-13-13
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Zelda Fitzgerald
- The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
- De: Sally Cline
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper." Their romance transformed a symbol of glamour and spectacle of the Jazz Age. When Zelda cracked up, not long after the stock market crash of 1929, Scott remained loyal to her through a nightmare of later breakdowns and final madness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Beautiful and the Bungled
- De Silverthorne en 12-08-17
De: Sally Cline
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Fiery Heart
- De: Claire Harman
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Charlotte Brontë's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Like Jane Eyre, she was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to a brutally strict boarding school at a young age. Charlotte grew up and watched helplessly as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Brontë clan remaining.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clear-Eyed Bio of Literature's Most Elusive Figure
- De wally en 09-02-16
De: Claire Harman
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Becoming Faulkner
- The Art and Life of William Faulker
- De: Philip Weinstein
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Miss.'s BCS-Bundren.Compson.Snopes/Sutpen/Sartoris
- De W Perry Hall en 05-01-14
De: Philip Weinstein
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Romantic Outlaws
- The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
- De: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tons of info, poor format choice.
- De Gotta Tellya en 02-06-17
De: Charlotte Gordon
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A Life Observed
- A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis
- De: Devin Brown
- Narrado por: Jon Gauger
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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A Life Observed tells the inspiring story of Lewis' spiritual journey from cynical atheist to joyous Christian. Drawing on Lewis' autobiographical works, books by those who knew him personally, and his apologetic and fictional writing, this spiritual biography brings the beloved author’s story to life while shedding light on his best-known works.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A beautifully written remembrance
- De Rob en 02-06-18
De: Devin Brown