George Moore wanted to be a painter. In 1873, he left London for Paris, where he intended to study painting. He enrolled in several studios, first at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and...

Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood which he completed at the age of twenty three, and which immediately propelled him into...

An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope, one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known...

Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the life of an...

In The Soundtrack of My Life, music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of...

She was supposed to teach Daisy how to be a good dog…but Daisy taught her to be a better person.When Sharron Luttrell joins a weekend “Prison PUP” program for a...

“Filled with the vitality and spirit that made Jack Kennedy such a magical figure. Chris Matthews shows the cunning and determination beneath that magic. It’s an...

A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II—“the most...

Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of...

Vittorio De Sica has been one of the greatest directors of the Italian cinema. He was the author of real masterpieces like Sciuscià, Ladri di biciclette and Umberto D. He...