2160 results for '"Marie Luise Kaschnitz'

Lakota Woman, winner of the American Book Award for 1991 and a national best-seller, is the moving and impassioned story of Mary Brave Bird (then Mary Crow Dog) growing up a Sioux in a hostile world...

This international bestseller from a prominent 20th-century writer inspired Antonia Fraser’s Mary Queen of Scots.A classic royal biography that offers an in-depth look at one of one of the most...

Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of...

Making Mary Poppins reveals the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all time--and the two little-known songwriters who helped make it possible. Long...

“Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?”—Mary Oliver“The Summer Day” (House of Light)Mary Oliver’s words guide us, with solace and empathy, across the rocky terrain...

A publication chronicling a new sound art project led by the bestselling author of Lost Children Archive and The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli, with Ricardo Giraldo and Leo HeiblumEchoes from...

In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and waterlogged, was found floating in the shallow...

A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012Longlisted for The 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary AwardFrom Marie NDiaye, the first...

In essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal, Mary Gaitskill explores date rape and political adultery, the transcendentalism of the Talking Heads, the melancholy of Björk, and the...

Few English monarchs have a worse reputation than Mary Tudor. She has been seen both as a religious fanatic who tried against the will of her people to reverse the course of the Reformation and as...

"Every year over twelve million people make pilgrimages to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and nearly four and a half million visit the shrine at Lourdes. Tracing this widespread and emotionally...

Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He...

In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.Having witnessed...

In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human...

“[Marie-Helene] Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician . . . Dazzling.” —Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Bustle,...

Presents Shiller's dramatic masterpiece, the "Wallenstein" trilogy, and "Mary Stuart" in their entirety. Includes notes on the historical background of both plays.

A new collection of simple yet powerful words and wisdom from Warren Buffett about today’s economy and how investing has changed in the past two decades—from crypto to climate change—compiled and...

One of the great overlooked voices of modern Irish literature, once hailed as “magnificent” by The New York Times, Mary Lavin’s fiction is now being revived for a new generation of readers in this...

In Virgin Mary and the Neutrino, first published in French in 2006 and here appearing in English for the first time, Isabelle Stengers experiments with the possibility of addressing modern practices...

Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon   Nominated as one of America’s best-loved...