Seit uber 40 Jahren ist Mami die erfolgreichste Mutter-Kind-Reihe auf dem deutschen Markt! Buchstablich ein Qualitatssiegel der besonderen Art, denn diese wirklich einzigartige Romanreihe ist generell der Ma?stab und einer der wichtigsten Wegbereiter fur den modernen Familienroman geworden. Weit uber 2.600 erschienene Mami-Romane zeugen von der Popularitat dieser Reihe. Etwa drei?ig Kinder sa?en an langen Tischen im Schatten der alten Ba ...
Die Idee der sympathischen, lebensklugen Denise von Schoenecker sucht ihresgleichen. Sophienlust wurde gegrundet, das Kinderheim der glucklichen Waisenkinder. Denise verwaltet mit wahrem Herzblut das spatere Erbe ihres Sohnes Nick, dem spater einmal, mit Erreichen seiner Volljahrigkeit, das Kinderheim gehoren wird. In der Reihe Sophienlust Bestseller werden die schonsten Romane dieser wundervollen Erfolgsserie veroffentlicht. Warmherzig, ...
Begun in 1929 under the title «New Prose» and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives, fragments, and aphorisms, and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia—who had unwittingly become the «e ...
Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922–98) shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding-school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and are all the more valuable because Gaddis was not an autobiographical writer. Here we see him f ...
Shklovsky: Witness to an Era is a blend of riotous anecdote, personal history, and literary reflection, collecting interviews with Viktor Shklovsky conducted by scholar Serena Vitale in the '70s, toward the end of the great critic's life, and in the face of interference and even veiled threats of violence from the Soviet government. Shklovsky's answers are wonderfully intimate, focusing particularly on the years of the early Sovie ...
Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings ...
Taking Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as its primary subjects, Surface Tension reveals how these later Victorian poets repeatedly imagine the aesthetic moment—charged, variegated, intensely focused—as capable of birthing a new, and newly redemptive, culture. Turning to contemporary experimental poets and theorists of poetry, such as Andrew Joron, Lisa Robertson, Christopher Nealon, and Joan Retallack, it goes o ...
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity, indifference, anonymity, and absence—forces confronting the writer, but also the reader, the text itself, and the relations between the three. For ...
In fifty informative and inspiring steps, Beth Kaplan shows you how to write your story by putting on your writer's hat, then your editor's hat, then digging down to bring out the vital details of the story, and finally living the writing life. Steps include:<ul><li>Read Like a Writer</li><li>Unleash the "I" Word</li><li>Claim Your Truth</li><li>Write from Scars, Not Wounds</li>< ...