Literary Figures
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Lives Other Than My Own
$19.00 Add to cartSELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
“You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether–a book at onc- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013771
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 1, 1915-1919
$21.99 Add to cart“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf…. This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her … [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #1
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156260360
- Language: English
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927
$19.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s diary from his early twenties–a thought-provoking work that reveals his earliest thinking about war, atheism, religion, and humanity.
While serving his cou
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643584
- Language: English
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A Frozen Woman
$15.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux’s teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in he- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 1996
- ISBN10: 188836338X
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Read moreIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- Language: English
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Paris France
$15.95 Add to cartCelebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never again to return to her native America. While in Par… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403749
- Language: English
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The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
$19.99 Add to cartMore than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach’s timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love
“We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our ple
- Author: Bach, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148482
- Language: English
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The Books in My Life
$19.95 Add to cartSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking–but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201082
- Language: English
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equa
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755144
- Language: English
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America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction
$19.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation’s most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437417
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$17.95 Read moreA reminiscence of Christmas, from the viewpoint of a young boy, that has been a holiday favorite for decades.
In rich, humorous, magical prose, poet Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-tr- Series: Godine Storyteller
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 43
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0879233397
- Language: English
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
$22.00 Add to cart“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” –The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgeral… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1982117125
- Language: English
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
$17.95 Add to cartInstantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as “The Lott
- Author: Franklin, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493418
- Language: English
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The Little Virtues: Essays
$14.99 Add to cartIn this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured … [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1628728256
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close t… [more below]
- Author: Lane, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 159030389X
- Language: English
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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
$19.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English- Series: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 076790382X
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Capote: A Biography
$22.99 Add to cartThe bestselling biography of the author of In Cold Blood and basis for the award-winning film Capote, Gerald Clarke provides insight into the life of Truman Capote like no one before.
An Americ- Author: Clarke, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439187509
- Language: English
