Literary Figures
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered–an icon and idol–alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one
- Author: Shapland, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1951142292
- Language: English
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cart“Worsley offers us much that Austen’s admirers wish to know…with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished.” –Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review
Take a trip back to- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799961
- Language: English
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
$29.99 Add to cartMaking use of the author’s access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach’s Paris book shop.
- Series: History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
- Author: Fitch, Noel Riley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393302318
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Mark Twain: Adventures from the Father of American Literature
$8.95 Add to cartBorn Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain is best known for his stories of American boyhood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Lauded as the greatest humourist America has ever produced, e
- Series: Little Books of Literature #8
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691955
- Language: English
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Shame
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon,” begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 09 1998
- ISBN10: 1583220186
- Language: English
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Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
$24.95 Read moreThis is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status–Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner pri… [more below]
- Author: Boyers, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1942134886
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
$18.99 Add to cart“So many memoirs make you feel that you’ve been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not j
- Author: Grealy, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 006328863X
- Language: English
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Whatever Happened to Frankie King
$21.95 Add to cartA real-life mystery of books and basketball.
Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were com
- Author: Neugeboren, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790775
- Language: English
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard
$25.00 Add to cartA new critical biography of medieval England’s most famous poet.
For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales’ lively and oft- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Flannery, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148634
- Language: English
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A Curious Heart: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker
$24.95 Read more- Author: Hall, Penelope Coker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990949300
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (Loa #386): Political Fictions / Fixed Ideas / Where I Was from / The Year of Magical Thinking (Memoir & Play) /
$40.00 Add to cartThe ultimate Didion edition concludes with the brilliant and haunting works from her incomparable late phase.
Library of America now completes its definitive, three-volume edition of one of the most e- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537873
- Language: English
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Letters to His Neighbor
$13.95 Add to cartMarcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-li
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238644
- Language: English
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
$30.00 Read moreSince her death, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1496846672
- Language: English
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This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
$39.95 Add to cartPortrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism
The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged pers
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811329
- Language: English
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Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
$39.95 Read moreThe Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist
Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Time- Author: Cockburn, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290742
- Language: English
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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
$38.99 Add to cartA TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER
‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-rea
- Author: Byrne, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0008322252
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing
$32.95 Add to cartA provocative and unique look at how the women Hemingway loved shaped this literary legend
Ernest Hemingway’s passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged
- Author: Sindelar, Nancy W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084682
- Language: English
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Screams from the Balcony
$25.00 Add to cartScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski’s life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0876859147
- Language: English
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