Great Non-fiction from Fiction Authors
Discover great non-fiction books written by famous fiction authors. Explore insightful works beyond their novels, from memoirs to essays, by your favorite storytellers.
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Lost in the Cosmos
by Walker Percy
Explores human nature and presents insights on the self and its fears, sexuality, boredom, depression, and other aspects.
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Experience
by Martin Amis
Memoirs of Martin Amis desribing his family, especially the influence his father had on his life.
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Reading Rilke Reflections On The Problems Of Translations
by William H. Gass
The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.
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The Merry Heart
by Robertson Davies
Readers around the world continue to mourn the 1995 death of a beloved literary icon, but this rich and varied collection of Robertson Davies's writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us. Coming almost entirely from Davies? own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from "The Novelist and Magic" to "Literature and Technology," from "Painting, Fiction, and Faking," to "Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?" and "Creativity in Old Age." For devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the "urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef" (Cleveland Plain Dealer)?vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu. Davies himself says merely: "Lucky writers. . .like wine, die rich in fruitiness and delicious aftertaste, so that their works survive them." Viking will publish Robertson Davies? Happy Alchemy in July 1998 Many fine works by Robertson Davies are available from Penguin including The Deptford Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, and The Salterton Trilogy
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Lone Star Swing
by Duncan McLean
High Fidelity meets Blue Highways in this gloriously offbeat quest for the true roots of Texas Swing.
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The Old Patagonian Express
by Paul Theroux
An account of Theroux's trip by train from Boston to Bogota, Columbia.
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Imagining Characters
by A. S. Byatt
The bestselling author of "Possession" pairs her searching intelligence with the insights of psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre in a free-wheeling and exhilarating discussion of one novel each by six women writers--Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison. The result reveals how literature engages and nourishes the reader.