Books written by male authors (3467)


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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly a... continue

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A preparação do ator by Constantin Stanislavski PT

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Coube a Stanislavski a importante tarefa de sistematizar os conhecimentosintuitivos dos grandes atores do passado e de explicação ao ator contemporâneo como agir no momento da criação ou da realização. O seu sistema não é uma continuação das ideias expostas nos velhos manuais. É antes uma quebra da tradicional maneira de ensinar. O trabalho do ator, segundo o sistema de Stanislavski, não equivale a um estilo de representação. É, como qualquer técnica, um meio e não uma finalidade. É o próprio Stanislavski quem diz: "Ele (seu sistema) só tem utilidade quando se transforma numa segunda natureza ... continue

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A Replacement Life : A Novel by Boris Fishman EN

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Country: Europe / Belarus flag Belarus
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Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, “didn’t suffer in the exact way” he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors... continue

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A River in Darkness : One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.

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A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Sherlock Holmes, the world’s “only unofficial consulting detective”, was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887.It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously in popularity, later to become one of the most beloved literary characters of all time. In this book series, the short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been amusingly illustrated using only Lego® brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, t... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket EN

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In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket EN

Rating: 4.5 (4 votes)
Description:
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Warning: Your day will become very dark—and possibly damp—if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding ... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
Dear Reader, If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill yo... continue

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket EN

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Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun - as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth instalment in Lemony Snicket′s serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby. With millions of readers worldwide, and the Baudelaire′s fate turning from unpleasant to unseemly, it i... continue

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A Set Of Six by Joseph Conrad EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine