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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.
Tells the story of the author's relationship with his tormented father: a man who sent his wife mad and saw his other son run away from home, prior to the author going into foster care.
In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken... Læs mere
This account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career collects together all the documented facts concerning the novelist, illuminates her place within an... Læs mere
The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seen here as... Læs mere
Features an account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries to come.
Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French... Læs mere
The first full account of the life and work of a nineteenth-century woman who carved out a unique career as an important writer in English on Welsh subjects.
This book considers Hester Lynch Piozzi as a Welsh writer of Wales, and documents the importance of her decision to build the beautiful Brynbella in north Wales. The Celtic aspects of her early poetry and her later prose works are considered in detail.
A lively retrospective appraisal of Dennis Cooper's fifty-year career, Wrong tracks the emergence of Cooper's singular style alongside his participation in a number of American subcultural movements like New York School poetry, punk rock, and radical queercore music and zines.
This book is an enriching Yeats companion to the work of one of the world’s great poets. Its iconography illuminates the poems and the life.