Rakuten Kobo

Carrito de compra

Artículos no disponibles para compra.

Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.

artículosartículo

- Incluye libros electrónicos
  
  Incluye audiolibros
  
  Incluye 30 horas de tiempo de escucha
  
  Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Recibe 1 crédito cada mes para el audiolibro de tu elección
  
  Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Incluye libros electrónicos
  
  Incluye audiolibros
  
  Incluye 30 horas de tiempo de escucha
  
  Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiolibro
  de ,
  
  Disponible el:
  
  . Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Preventa
  1 audiolibro mensual
  
  + Prueba gratis de 30 días
  
  Oferta especial
  
  Recibe 1 crédito cada mes para intercambiarlo por un audiolibro de tu elección.
  
  *Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento
  
  GRATIS

artículosartículo

Incluye libros electrónicos

Incluye audiolibros

Incluye 30 horas de tiempo de escucha

Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Recibe 1 crédito cada mes para el audiolibro de tu elección

Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Incluye libros electrónicos

Incluye audiolibros

Incluye 30 horas de tiempo de escucha

Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiolibro
de ,

Disponible el:
. Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento en kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Preventa
1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Oferta especial

Recibe 1 crédito cada mes para intercambiarlo por un audiolibro de tu elección.

*Sin compromiso, cancela en cualquier momento

GRATIS

Recomendado para ti

Skip side bar filters

Millionaire Housekeeping

A Novel

de Ardyth Kennelly ...

Under the guise of writing a handbook for the "elegant conduct" of a "millionaire philanthropist's" household, Mary-nicknamed Minette by the mistress's French maid-recounts her rise in one such New York establishment, from a fourteen-year-old dining hall maid in the 1930s to the superintending housekeeper by the 1960s. She's no Mrs. Hughes of "Downton Abbey," but fans of that show will see much ... Leer más

$1.99 USD

Under the guise of writing a handbook for the "elegant conduct" of a "millionaire philanthropist's" household, Mary-nicknamed Minette by the mistress's French maid-recounts her rise in one such New York establishment, from a fourteen-year-old dining hall maid in the 1930s to the superintending housekeeper by the 1960s. She's no Mrs. Hughes of "Downton Abbey," but fans of that show will see much
... Leer más
Bodies Adjacent

Ardyth's Memoir & Egon's Journal

de Ardyth Kennelly, Egon V. Ullman ...

Part memoir, part confession, part journal, Bodies Adjacent is the story of two lives told by each one about the other. The novelist Ardyth Kennelly and her physician husband, the Jewish Viennese émigré Egon V. Ullman, began their unlikely love affair in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 1930s and continued it for nearly three decades in Portland-contending first with the Depression, ... Leer más

Antes $4.99 USD Ahora $1.99 USD

Part memoir, part confession, part journal, Bodies Adjacent is the story of two lives told by each one about the other. The novelist Ardyth Kennelly and her physician husband, the Jewish Viennese émigré Egon V. Ullman, began their unlikely love affair in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 1930s and continued it for nearly three decades in Portland-contending first with the Depression,
... Leer más
New York on $5 a Day

A Novelist's Memoir, 1963-64

de Ardyth Kennelly ...

New York on $5 a Day, the last book by the novelist Ardyth Kennelly (1912-2005), is a brief but charming account of her two-year sojourn in New York City (1963-64), where she had gone to try to revive her writing career after the death of her husband a year earlier. Written in 2001, the memoir is a chatty and engaging reminiscence about the unusual people she met in New York, including the English ... Leer más

$1.99 USD

New York on $5 a Day, the last book by the novelist Ardyth Kennelly (1912-2005), is a brief but charming account of her two-year sojourn in New York City (1963-64), where she had gone to try to revive her writing career after the death of her husband a year earlier. Written in 2001, the memoir is a chatty and engaging reminiscence about the unusual people she met in New York, including the English
... Leer más
Variation West

de Ardyth Kennelly ...

The crowning literary achievement of Ardyth Kennelly, a best-selling novelist in the late 1940s and 1950s, is finally available--ten years after her death, and twenty years after the book was written. Fans of her previous books will love the fresh stories of life in Mormon Utah, and she is sure to gain many new admirers with this sweeping novel covering not only a century of Western life and ... Leer más

Antes $5.99 USD Ahora $1.99 USD

The crowning literary achievement of Ardyth Kennelly, a best-selling novelist in the late 1940s and 1950s, is finally available--ten years after her death, and twenty years after the book was written. Fans of her previous books will love the fresh stories of life in Mormon Utah, and she is sure to gain many new admirers with this sweeping novel covering not only a century of Western life and
... Leer más

Saul Bellow

Letters

de Saul Bellow ...

A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest
... Leer más
A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

de Tom Nissley ...

A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Leer más

$12.39 USD

A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it
... Leer más
Am I Alone Here?

Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

de Peter Orner ...

This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times).“Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

Disponible también en: Audiolibro

This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times).“Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
The Hue and Cry at Our House

A Year Remembered

de Benjamin Taylor ...

The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor's Choice.**“A marvel of a book—elegant, touching, singular.” —Mary Karr“Brief and moving . . . An elegantly ... Leer más

Antes $5.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

Disponible también en: Audiolibro

The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening with a handshake with JFK, and recalling the changes and revelations of the months that followed.Winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, and a New York Times Editor's Choice.**“A marvel of a book—elegant, touching, singular.” —Mary Karr“Brief and moving . . . An elegantly
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
Daily Rituals

How Artists Work

de Mason Currey ...

More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited
... Leer más
Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Edición de Larry W. Phillips ...

A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”Despite this belief, by the end of his ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

Disponible también en: Audiolibro

A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”Despite this belief, by the end of his
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
The Receptionist

An Education at The New Yorker

de Janet Groth ...

In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

Disponible también en: Audiolibro

In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village,
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976

de E. B. White ...

A wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns and development as a writer. In matchless style White writes about everything from cicadas to Khrushchev, from Thoreau to hyphens, from academic freedom to lipstick, from New York garbagemen to the ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

A wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns and development as a writer. In matchless style White writes about everything from cicadas to Khrushchev, from Thoreau to hyphens, from academic freedom to lipstick, from New York garbagemen to the
... Leer más

Kobo Rakuten

eReaders

Aplicaciones

Accesorios

¿Qué es Kobo Super Points?

Prémiate

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Tu carrito de compra está vacío

Disponible el:

1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Disponible el:

1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Recomendado para ti

“ardyth kennelly”

Millionaire Housekeeping

Bodies Adjacent

New York on $5 a Day

Variation West

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

Saul Bellow

A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

Am I Alone Here?

The Hue and Cry at Our House

Daily Rituals

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

The Receptionist

Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976

eReaders

Aplicaciones

Accesorios

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Tu carrito de compra está vacío

Disponible el:

1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Disponible el:

1 audiolibro mensual

+ Prueba gratis de 30 días

Recomendado para ti

“ardyth kennelly”

Mostrar:

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó