A propos niczego. Autobiografia

Woody Allen

Szczery, soczysty i błyskotliwy autoportret jednego z największych artystów naszych czasów! Z wyjątkową gawędziarską pasją Allen prowadzi nas od dzieciństwa i młodości na Brooklynie, przez pracę scenarzysty w programie Sida Ceasara i komika stand-upowego, aż po pierwsze próby aktorsko-reżyserskie i rozkwit trwającej sześćdziesiąt lat kariery w przemyśle filmowym. Na kartach tej niecodziennej autobiografii wielkie nazwiska mieszają się z błahostkami, naiwne zachwyty z bagażem życiowych doświadczeń, a kino ma godnego rywala w postaci muzyki jazzowej. Ta intymna i często humorystyczna historia znajduje się na listach bestsellerów takich czasopism, jak New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times i Publishers Weekly. Żywa opowieść o dorastaniu na Brooklynie, w rodzinie z klasy średniej; plotkarska relacja o wdrapywaniu się po szczeblach drabiny komedii, od pisania gagów dla tabloidów po zdobycie Oscarów. () Większa część tych wspomnień jest przyjemną i zajmującą lekturą. () Trzeba być prawdziwym ponurakiem, żeby nie roześmiać się pod gradem żartów.- Peter Biskind, Loch Angeles Times Prawdziwie wyluzowany głos na papierze.- New York Times Absolutnie zachwycająca, zabawna, ujmująca i skrząca się gwiezdnym pyłem. - National Review Od młodości mistrz w humorystycznym umniejszaniu samego siebie, urodzony z nowojorskimi cojones, Allen mówi to, o czym inni tylko myślą, i do diabła z kontrowersjami. - New York Journal of Books - The Federalist Rzutka, żywa, nadzwyczaj zabawna relacja.- Commentary Magazine Jeśli kochacie Woodyego Allena, pokochacie tę książkę. - Sam Wasson, Air Mail

A Pulpit in the Grill Room

E. Phillips Oppenheim

In 1914, after seven years of service in the most famous room in the Grill Room in London, he dropped his very favorable position and went to France. In 1919, he came from a war with two crutches and many medals. He came to Paris and looked enviously at the funny scenes in the cafe, and thought that it was all over for him.

A Queen of Atlantis

Frank Aubrey

Frank Aubrey, the author of The Devil Tree of Eldorado, has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure. A Queen of Atlantis is the second of his trilogy of novels. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal Monella. The readers interest is sustained from the start and the experiences are thrilling!

A Queen of Atlantis. A Romance of the Caribbean

Frank Aubrey

There is a long tradition among the romances of the 19th and early 20th century of the lost race novel concerning explorers who stumble onto a culture exists hidden from the outside world. A Queen of Atlantis: A Romance of the Caribbean is a novel among the most famous lost race novels written by Frank Aubrey. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ingenuity, chronicling the adventures of the near-immortal Monella. Most desirable, all the expected thrills of an Atlantean thriller plus some: flying damsels; immortals; a satisfying variety of monsters including the frightful shape, with its maddening leer and its blood-curdling scream that welcomes us to the book.

A Queen of the Stage

Fred M. White

The story of A Queen of the Stage about a lonely woman Elsie Wayne, who is alone in London. She gets a fake theater role. The stranger throws her a note. It reads: Be brave and patient. If your friend does not let you down, be today under the portico of the Regency Theater.

A Rogues Life

Wilkie Collins

This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank sees work life as a problem, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed in medicine, portraiture, caricature, and even forgery. Disillusioned with life, he despaired of finding something to do until he met Alicia Dulcifer.

A Romance of Two Worlds

Marie Corelli

The main character, who is fond of music, being under the heavy pressure of a creative crisis, goes on a journey with her friends to improve her mental and physical health. There she meets an artist who once also became very discouraged, but who was lucky enough to be treated by a mysterious healer with fantastic abilities. In the midst of an ignorant society, a rumor has already been very successfully circulating about the doctor, as if he communicates with evil spirits, which is why his extraordinary skills. However, as it turns out later, the doctor is not at all a sorcerer and not a servant of Satan, but, on the contrary, a man of deep scientific interests and, even, achievements, to which he came purely thanks to sincere faith in God and the after life.

A Room of Ones Own

Virginia Woolf

The beauty of A Room of Ones Own is that it serves as an example of peace of mind, which, as Wooolf insists, is the defining quality of all great artists. Her transparent and elegant essay is devoted not only to the necessary material conditions of writing, but also to the self-overcoming of the creator. Virginia Woolf, in her essay, talks about a womans right to work. The writer considers a centuries-old story during which a woman was only a silent shadow of a man.