Geisha: A Life, Paperback - Mineko Iwasaki

Reducere. No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story--until now. "Many say I was the best g...

Endlessly fascinating...a narrative that is both gripping and beautifully paced...a wonderful read (Observer)This is one of those rare novels that ...

Reducere. The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-spr...

Reducere. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the Geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploita...

Level 6: Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Bestselling novels about geisha life abound - but this is the first true story by a leading geisha.Illustrations: 8pp mono + 8pp colour

Reducere. One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's ...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Carol WyerNumber of pages: 364Collection: Detective Kate YoungPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 172 x 197 x ...

Ceai verde cu bambus, Schizandra si ghimbirIngrediente: Ceai verde: Sencha, China Bancha, Kukicha, seminte de susan, muguri de bambus, fructe de Sc...

Reducere. What good is it for a man to gain the world but lose his soul? That is the question GANGSTA must answer when he finds himself on the other end of a...

Reducere. On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of...

Reducere. A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles ...

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe ...

A source of inspiration for Mike Leigh's MR TURNER, in this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, d...

Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interv...

Publisher: Paul DavidAuthor(s): Paul DavidNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 150 x 210 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

The revealing and deeply moving autobiography of one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century

Translation of: Montaigne: un biographie politique.

Reducere. Since the last full life of G. I. Gurdjieff appeared in 1991, a number of books have corrected received facts and disclosed new information on sele...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Sue PrideauxNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 193 x 138 x 30Cover type: Paperback / ...

Haunted by a mysterious and half remembered event from her early childhood, Marianne's life evolves from her upbringing in Vermont, to her literary...

Reducere. If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. He does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. H...

From the founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power of plants

A beautifully written and moving memoir of one of the great British photographers of the twentieth century. "A moving book, lyrically written, a po...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, Marie Curie discovered radioactivity, for which she won the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911 she won an unprecedented second ...

The first major life of the outstanding British painter - and Jack the Ripper suspect - Walter Sickert (1860-1942), by the highly acclaimed biograp...

Reducere. Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journa...

An insightful biography of Florence's famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, ...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling: A Life, Paperback

Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would fost...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jan CaeyersTranslator: Brent AnnableNumber of pages: 680Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x...

Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese woman eve...

What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life...? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to "do what we...

Now in paperback this revised and updated highly readable illustrated biography of the painter Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) who was one of the lea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marshall FradyMarshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re-creat...

New B-format paperback edition - A monumental new life of Ancient Rome's most illustrious complex and legendary leader - Julius Caesar.

Reducere. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in th...

Glenn Ford star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3: 10 to Yuma, and The Rounders had rugged good looks, a long ...

Reducere. A biography of Helene Hanff, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road by a leading authority on her life and works. Pastore was a long-time friend and n...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A vivid account of a remarkable life." --The Washington Post In this comprehensive, revelatory biography--fifteen years of int...

Publisher: Hachette BooksAuthor(s): Frank McLynnNumber of pages: 720Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 49Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

A cogent and insightful new biography of one of the great Russian writers.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

* An authoritative and immensely readable biography of the remarkable Vera Brittain* 'Two men writing with rare sympathy about an ardent feminist ....

Publisher: Merrion PressAuthor(s): Cormac O'MalleyNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Winifred ConklingIllustration(s): 1c photosNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x...