Biographical Books

SARRASINE I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious festivities. The clock on the Elysee-Bourbon had just struck midnight. Seated in a window recess and concealed behind the undulating folds of a curtain of watered silk, I was able to contemplate at my leisure the garden of the mansion at which I was passing... more...

This is the story of a courageous woman who sacrifices her personal desires and short-term gains to achieve a greater goal. Her journey is one of struggle, sacrifice, and self-discovery.

When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was... more...

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There are two kinds of music in the world: one that fills the ears, and one that burns the heart. Raza Aziz belonged to the second kind. His voice didn’t entertain; it ignited. People said his qawwalis could make the air itself tremble. He sang of truth and madness, of burning and becoming, and his most famous line — “Khud ko jala, phir dekh Haqq ka ujala” — became both his gift and his curse.... more...