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Biografier giver dig adgang til ægte livsfortællinger og skæbner, der har sat deres præg på verden. Her finder du bøger om både nulevende og historiske personer - fra de magtfulde til de misforståede, fra kendte navne til hverdagens helte. Vores udvalg rummer inspirerende historier om mod, passion og vilje, hvor virkelighedens stemmer får plads. Uanset om du søger en biografi med indhold til samlingen, en rørende gave eller blot ønsker at læse om mennesker, der har ændret verden, er der masser at vælge imellem. Find din næste biografi hos WilliamDam.dk og oplev fortællinger, der berører og sætter sig fast.
This major biography traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with women.
These essays offer diverse perspectives on the biographical techniques and appropriation of sources for the use and reshaping of historical tradition by one of the most prominent philosophers and biographers of the ancient world.
First published in 1949 this book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time.
Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Charting a course through Cicero's celebrated career, Shane Butler examines the relationship between speech and writing in Roman oratory.
This theoretically challenging volume of essays describes the diversity of forms that life writing takes and highlights the extent to which autobiographical narrative is a powerful symbolic form and a genre of identity construction.
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, but she was also an important literary and historical figure in her own right. This... Læs mere
With tales of life in India and London and meditations on the form Indian fiction gives to the lives of those who read about it, this is a sweeping, passionate search to find one's own story.
Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor,... Læs mere
Volume I of the Letters, edited by James T. Boulton, gives the first 580 letters in the series, covering the period September 1901 to May 1913. Professor Boulton's discreet... Læs mere
Molière is an important figure in European literature and drama, whose plays are still taught and performed throughout the world. This full-length biography, first published in 2000, will appeal to the general reader as well as the specialist.