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A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

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George Orwell’s firsthand study of 1930s Yorkshire and Lancashire working‑class life, exposing slum housing, mining dangers, and unemployment with unflinching honesty.

Bernard Crick’s scholarly biography of George Orwell, released in 1980, offers a comprehensive 589‑page portrait of the English novelist and journalist, complete with photographs, extensive notes, and an index.

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.From the Trade Paperback edition.

An examination of the poet's life and works, side by side.

"Jeanette Winterson argues in this collection for the importance of art in all our lives. In ten intertwined essays, the acclaimed author of such recent novels as Written on the Body and Art & Lies proposes art as an active force in the world - neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting even those who don't." "An act of courage and effrontery, a uniquely human endeavor that defies time and differences, art offers new realities, emotions and worlds to anyone prepared to meet the demands it places on us. Art objects to the lie that life is small, fragmented and mean. Art objects to the myth of inevitable decay. Winterson's eloquent vision of objecting, transforming, exuberant art is presented in pieces on painting, autobiography, style and the future of fiction. She also declares her admiration for Modernism and examines the writing of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein. More personally, she confronts the current fascination with the writer's life or sexuality instead of the work itself, and describes her relationship to her own fiction."--BOOK JACKET.

Richard Holmes's award‑winning first volume of his Coleridge biography offers a richly illuminated portrait of the Romantic poet and philosopher, exploring his literary genius, personal complexities, and influence on 19th‑century English literature.

A concise biography of Frank Zappa, detailing his life from 1940 to 1993, his impact on rock music, and the social aspects that shaped his career.