Biografische schets van de Nederlandse auteur (1946- ).

Born in a small town in northern California in 1902, Steinbeck refused from the outset to fit himself to any mold, digging ditches and washing dishes while intermittently attending Stanford University. Failing to take a degree, he struggled for more than a decade to establish himself as a writer, always putting his work first. Eventually he enjoyed an extraordinary period of creativity during which he summoned a powerful vision of the Depression. Books such as Of Mice and Men, The Long Valley, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath became battle cries that aroused international indignation and brought Steinbeck a world audience. Jay Parini explores Steinbeck's love-hate relationship with Hollywood and Broadway, his career as a war correspondent, his difficult first and second marriages, and his often tempestuous associations with numerous celebrities, among them Joseph Campbell, Charlie Chaplin, Lyndon Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner. Drawing on interviews with dozens of people who knew Steinbeck intimately - including his beloved third wife, Elaine - and on published and unpublished letters, diaries, and manuscripts, John Steinbeck is both an important reassessment and a masterful portrait of one of the greatest American novelists.

Een interview met de Nederlandse schrijver (1944- ), enkele opstellen van zijn hand, een beknopte biografie en een bibliografie over 1984.

Leven en werk tot 1860 van de Nederlandse schrijver Multatuli (pseud. van Eduard Douwes Dekker 1820-1887).

Biografie van de Vlaamse letterkundige (1898-1989) op basis van analyse van diens werk.

When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'.

That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world that he opened his newly healed eyes on was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled and the army had been resolutely humbled.

Hitler never accepted these facts. Out of his fury rose a white-hot hatred, an unquenchable thirst for revenge against the 'criminals' who had signed the armistice, against the socialists who he accused of stabbing the army in the back and, most violently, against the Jews, a direct threat to the master race of his imagination, on whose shoulders he would pile all of Germany's woes.

But this was not all about the war; the seeds of that hatred lay in Hitler’s youth.

By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood, his war record and his early political career, Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer seeks the man behind the myth. How did the defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power?

More broadly, Paul Ham seeks to answer the question: Was Hitler a freak accident? Or was he an extreme example of a recurring type of demagogue, who will do and say anything to seize power; who thrives on chaos; and who personifies, in his words and in his actions, the darkest prejudices of humankind?

In the fifty years since his suicide amid the ruins of Berlin, Adolf Hitler has been the subject of more biographies than any comparable figure of our time, and at the center of a crucial historical debate over the nature of evil and moral responsibility in the twentieth century. In this brilliant and original book, the historian John Lukacs climbs above the fray to produce a definitive "history of a history: the history of the evolution of our understanding of Hitler's life and our debates about its meaning."

Like an expert attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and hidden agendas. And through their intersecting and conflicting accounts, he addresses the enduring enigmas surrounding the demiurge of the Third Reich. Was Hitler a revolutionary or a reactionary? How successful was he as a statesman and a strategist? What was his primary motive for the extermination of the Jews? The Hitler of History answers these questions as fully as any modern work can hope to, with an intellectual boldness that makes it absolutely essential to any understanding of the post-Hitler world.

Exploration of the personality and life of Hitler`s Chief of the SS

Na de oorlog hebben tallozen zich gebogen over het verschijnsel Adolf Hitler. Het is inmiddels een cliche dat de omvangrijke literatuur over Hitler niet meer is te overzien. Op internet zijn tientallen miljoenen verwijzingen naar hem te vinden. Maar één facet van het leven van Adolf Hitler is aan de aandacht van de meeste van zijn biografen ontsnapt: zijn ambities als beeldend kunstenaar. Geen museum waagt zich aan een tentoonstelling van zijn schilderijen, aquarellen, tekeningen, decorontwerpen en architectonische schetsen, een catalogus van deze werken is nimmer opgesteld. Toch hebben zijn kunstzinnige aspiraties en niet zijn politieke de eerste dertig jaar van het leven van de Fuhrer beheerst. Hitlers biografen maken wel gewag van zijn kunstenaarschap, maar zoeken daarin voornamelijk naar voorafspiegelingen van de latere dictator en misdadiger. Lambert Giebels concentreerde zich juist op de ontwikkeling van Hitler als beeldend kunstenaar, om vervolgens na te gaan of diens eerste dertig levensjaren herkenningspunten bieden voor later.

Een prachtig portret van Nederlands grootste komiek

Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became a key figure in the heyday of Montparnasse. This book follows him through the free love of Paris and into World War I.

Het leven van Franciscus van Assisië (1180-1226) naar eigentijdse bronnen verhaald met een poging zijn persoon te plaatsen in zijn tijd.

Levensbeschrijving van de echtgenote van de in 2008 gekozen Amerikaanse president.

In 1065 kijkt een honderdjarige terug op zijn leven, zijn avonturen, zijn omzwervingen, zijn vriendschap met keizer Otto III en bovenal zijn liefde voor boeken.

Biografisch-filosofische roman over Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), die logica en ethiek probeerde te verzoenen.

Biografie van de Nederlandse revolutionaire socialist en anarchist (1846-1919), geplaatst binnen de ontwikkelingen van de toenmalige maatschappij.

portret van een kunstenaar