Tarcherperigee imprint: 1144 books
by Mark Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2004
A complete guide to the work of the remarkable twentieth-century seer Edgar Cayce, featuring Cayce's most intriguing and influential readings, and a biographical introduction to his life.
Edgar Cayce is one of the most mysterious men of the twentieth century. Sometimes called "The Sleeping...
The Infernos of Dante and Dan Brown
A Visitor's Guide to Hell: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A terrific companion to the new Dan Brown movie, Inferno! Take an extraordinary journey into the signs and symbols behind Dan Brown’s latest Robert Langdon thriller.
Just in time for the blockbuster movie, this short guide introduces readers to Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century epic...
Casanova
Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
In Casanova, noted author Ian Kelly traces the life of Giacomo Casanova, a man whose very name is synonymous with sensuality, seduction and sexual prowess. But Casanova was more than just a great lover. A businessman, diplomat, spy, and philosopher, he authored more than twenty books, including a...
Expect Great Things
The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual...
by Deborah Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2004
The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized...
Travels with Myself and Another
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.
"Martha...
by Erica Jong
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
Seducing the Demon has introduced Erica Jong to readers who hadn't been born when Fear of Flying was published in 1973. Now one of her finest works of nonfiction -and a New York Times bestseller-is back in print with a new afterword.
In Fear of Fifty, a New York Times bestseller when first...
Writers Gone Wild
The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lo vers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Truth is stranger than fiction.
If you've imagined famous writers to be desk-bound drudges, think again. Writers Gone Wild rips back the (book) covers and reveals the seamy underside of the writing life.
Insightful, intriguing, and irresistibly addictive, Writers Gone Wild reveals such...
Odd Type Writers
From Joyce and Dickens to Wharton and Welty, the Obsessive Habits and Quirky Tec hniques of Great Authors
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Every great writer has a unique way of setting a story to paper. And, it turns out, many of these writers used methods that were just as inventive as the works they produced. Odd Type Writers explores the quirky writing habits of renowned authors, including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and Alexandre...
Beyond the Robot
The Life and Work of Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating, rollicking biography of literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson, one of the most adventurous, hopeful, and least understood intellects of the past century.
You will embark on the intellectual ride of a lifetime in this rediscovery of the life...
To Have and Have Another Revised Edition
A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Ernest Hemingway is nearly as famous for his drinking as he is for his writing. Throughout his collected works, Papa's sensuous explorations of the delights of imbibing engaged both his characters and his readers.
In To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, Philip Greene, cocktail...
The Writer's Life
Insights from The Right to Write
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2001
In her groundbreaking book The Right to Write, Julia Cameron dismantled the mythology surrounding the writing life in our culture. Tackling issues such as time, mood, inspiration, and support, she revealed that writing is in fact a natural-and crucial-part of life. Questions of how, when, and why...
by Stephen Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
In the first book to explore the religious ideals and background of the 43rd president of the United States, The Faith of George W. Bush discusses how Bush's spiritual beliefs shape his private life as well as drive his policies and politics. More than any other presidency in recent years, George...
Our Auntie Rosa
The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Our Auntie Rosa is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero—"the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus."
The family of Rosa Parks share their remembrances of the woman who was not only the mother of the civil rights movement, but a nurturing mother...