Literary Figures
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
$18.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip w- Author: Lipsky, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 030759243X
- Language: English
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Anybody Can Do Anything
$22.95 Add to cart“The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty.”
After surviving both the fai
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0295999799
- Language: English
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Undertones of War
$17.00 Add to cart“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I r… [more below]
- Author: Blunden, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226061760
- Language: English
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 3 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944)
$27.99 Add to cartNin’s years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. “Transcending mere self-revelation… the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Prou… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #03
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 24 1971
- ISBN10: 0156260271
- Language: English
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1966-1974
$29.99 Add to cartThe final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, reflective moment on a trip to Bali. “One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Rob… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #07
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260352
- Language: English
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James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
$31.00 Add to cartHow did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? This “fizzing, funny, often deeply moving” (Daily Mail) #1 New York Times bestselling memoir is “dam
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0316445215
- Language: English
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
$22.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries–a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0805212795
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo’s Daughter
$28.00 Read moreFrom Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Ad?le Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years lat
- Author: Bostridge, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1399416022
- Language: English
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The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation
$16.99 Add to cartIconic newscaster and Buddhist teacher chronicles the 1960s and ’70s in India, the Bay Area, and beyond
Join “Scoop” Nisker on a wild ride from West to East and back in his quest for true self and enli… [more below]
- Author: Nisker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 194862690X
- Language: English
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Intensa Vida, La
$20.95 Read more- Author: Valdes, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 8418709510
- Language: Spanish
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Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith
$21.95 Add to cartFlannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith tells the remarkable story of the gifted young woman who set out from her native Georgia to develop her talents as a writer and eventually succeeded in becomi… [more below]
- Series: People of God
- Author: O’Donnell, Angela Ailamo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0814637019
- Language: English
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A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
$21.00 Add to cartEdith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York s- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: July 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0684847558
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Women
$33.99 Add to cartMany books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated — his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wive… [more below]
- Author: Kert, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0393318354
- Language: English
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In My Father’s Court
$19.00 Add to cartLike Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374505926
- Language: English
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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
$25.00 Add to cart“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.”
The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag’s journals and notebooks, Reborn (1947-1963) reveals o- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428502
- Language: English
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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
$23.00 Add to cartJudith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen–now with a new foreword by the author
A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biog- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250857090
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
$35.00 Read more“No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career–from travel to history to her own transition–she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty.” —Stua
- Author: Clements, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 195035492X
- Language: English
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
$18.00 Add to cartTHE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS
The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins–perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney clas- Author: Lawson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1476762929
- Language: English
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As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
$36.99 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of 2012
From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, As Conscious- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024129
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$19.00 Add to cartTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible caus- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250792517
- Language: English
