Название: Ким Ир Сен
Автор: Андрей Балканский
Издательство: Молодая гвардия
Серия: Жизнь замечательных людей
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 296
Размер: 20,81 Мб
Язык: Русский

Ким Ир Сен для Северной Кореи - бессменный вождь и единственный президент, со дня его рождения отсчитывают летоисчисление чучхе, а в других странах его причисляют к наиболее жестоким диктаторам XX века. Жизнь этого человека, носившего разные имена, богато насыщена событиями, подчас таинственными. Как мальчик из корейской деревушки превратился в прославленного командира партизанского отряда, громившего японцев в Маньчжурии? Почему он надел форму красноармейца и за какие заслуги получил в СССР орден Красного Знамени? Что помогло Ким Ир Сену без малого 50 лет возглавлять Страну утренней свежести и, даже отойдя в мир иной, остаться для своего народа вечно живым?

Название: Майн Рид. Жил отважный капитан
Автор: Андрей Танасейчук
Издательство: Молодая гвардия
Серия: Жизнь замечательных людей
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 408
Размер: 37,92 Мб
Язык: Русский

Вряд ли можно найти человека, которому было бы неизвестно имя Томаса Майн Рида (1818–1883). Популярность этого писателя в России поразительна. «Всадник без головы», «Оцеола, вождь семинолов», «Квартеронка», «Морской волчонок», «Отважная охотница» — эти романы сопровождают нас с детства, открывая мир удивительного и прекрасного: захватывающих приключений, экзотических стран и благородных героев.Читателю предлагается первая полноценная биография Майн Рида на русском языке — история его жизни, не менее насыщенной отважными поступками и авантюризмом, приключениями и путешествиями, чем жизнь его литературных героев

Название: Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Автор: Laurie Woolever
Издательство: Ecco
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 53 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look into Bourdain’s life through the stories and recollections of his closest friends and colleagues. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain’s longtime assistant and confidante, interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony’s orbit—from members of his kitchen crews to his writing, publishing, and television partners, to his daughter and his closest friends—in order to piece together a remarkably full, vivid, and nuanced vision of Tony’s life and work.

Название: Летопись жизни и творчества И.А.Бунина. Том 2 (1910-1919)
Автор: Морозов С.Н. (сост.)
Издательство: М.: ИМЛИ РАН
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 1184
Размер: 75 mb
Язык: Русский

Второй том Летописи охватывает десять лет жизни писателя — наиболее плодотворный период его творчества до эмиграции: были написаны четыре новые книги, вышло Полное собрание сочинений И. Бунина. В эти годы писатель тяжело переживает Первую мировую войну, две революции и начавшуюся Гражданскую войну. И. Бунин становится одной из центральных фигур в русской литературе и общественной жизни России.

Название: Let Love Rule
Автор: Lenny Kravitz, David Ritz
Издательство: Sphere
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Let Love Rule covers a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan's Upper East Side, Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Los Angeles's Baldwin Hills, Beverly Hills, and finally to France, England and Germany. It's the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in music. We see him grow as a musician and ultimately a master songwriter, producer, and performer. We also see Lenny's spiritual growth-and the powerful way in which spirit informs his music. The cast of characters surrounding Lenny is extraordinary: his father, Sy, a high-powered news executive; his mother, Roxie Roker, a television star; and Lisa Bonet, the young actress who becomes his muse. The central character, of course, is Lenny, who, despite his great aspirational energy, turns down record deal after record deal until he finds his true voice.The creation of that voice, the same voice that is able to declare 'Let Love Rule' to an international audience, is the very heart of this story.

Название: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Автор: Allen Kurzweil
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world’s largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California.

Название: Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Автор: Adam Zamoyski
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 88 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator? While he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man and, as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct. A brilliant tactician, he was no strategist.

Название: Garbo
Автор: Robert Gottlieb
Издательство: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 178 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world’s subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the world―and that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessed―was rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe’s. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naïve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the world’s most famous actress.

Название: Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
Автор: Brian Boeck
Издательство: Pegasus Books
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 39 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov's epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented overnight success. Stalin's Scribe is the first biography of a man who was once one of the Soviet Union's most prominent political figures. Thanks to the opening of Russia's archives, Brian Boeck discovers that Sholokhov's official Soviet biography is actually a tangled web of legends, half-truths, and contradictions.

Название: His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
Автор: Jonathan Alter
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 39 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From one of America’s most-respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a complex figure—ridiculed and later revered—with a piercing intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to telling the truth to the American people.