Women Authors category: 700 books

Margiad wrote about the elderly, about love between women, about elusive, enigmatic characters. She is renowned for her ability to depict place, yet she also makes place reflective of the emotional and spiritual lives of her characters and her own concerns as an artist. Evans was a border writer,...

Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional...

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the European nineteenth century, as well as a pioneering translator of challenging and controversial Continental thinkers, and an influential editor and essayist. Although such novels of provincial life as Adam...

Contributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres,...

Una antología de los mejores artículos y ensayos de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. «En la tierra dorada el futuro siempre es atractivo, porque nadie recuerda el pasado.» Joan Didion es una de las cronistas fundamentales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En una edición a...

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Art of Fiction". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Narrow Bridge of Art. Hours in a Library. Impassioned Prose. Life and...

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...

White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public.  As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson,...

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with...

Incluye audio del autor.Los ensayos de este libro nacieron como un reconocimiento a la calidad del trabajo de cada una de las autoras que aparecen.“Su original impronta se presta a esos juegos que establezco cuando abordo el ensayo: trenzar la vida y la obra de los artistas con el fin de establecer...

Lucía Melgar y Gabriela Mora han construido en este libro mucho más que un conjunto de voces en torno a Elena Garro. Las 14 experiencias, sean éstas de lectura, revisión histórica o narración de uno o varios encuentros con la autora de Los recuerdos del porvenir, son una paradoja. El equilibrio...

This version contains 2 works of Jane Austen With over 85 Illustrations and Audiobook Link. 1 “Pride and Prejudice” The narrative opens with Mr Bingley, a wealthy young bachelor, moving into Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood of the Bennet family (who live at Longbourne). Mr Bingley...

Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelist’s appreciation of the surreal.” —Los Angeles Times...

With Austen for Beginners A Memoir of Jane Austen, illustrations, Free Audiobook Links This edition of Sense and Sensibility includes the origin version colored illustrations by C. E. Brock. and HUGH THOMSON Beautiful colored pictures that follow the story line will make this story more...