Literary Figures
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Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life
$23.00 Add to cart“bell hooks’s brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.” –Gloria Steinem
With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell ho- Series: Wounds of Passion #1
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 1, 1999
- ISBN10: 0805057226
- Language: English
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A Writer’s Diary: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$21.99 Add to cartAn invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years.
Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those tha… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 31, 2003
- ISBN10: 0156027917
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: What She Means
$50.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the visual corollary to Didion’s life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics–including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Bet
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1636810578
- Language: English
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$23.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YE- Author: Fraser, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 07, 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182484
- Language: English
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Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
$21.95 Add to cartEmily Dickinson’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year cor… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0963818368
- Language: English
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Pioneer Girl
$39.95 Read more- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1941813402
- Language: English
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El A?o del Pensamiento M?gico / The Year of the Magical Thinking
$20.95 Add to cartUnas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a trav?s de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en tod… [more below]
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 8439729073
- Language: Spanish
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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York’s Mean Streets
$17.00 Add to cartThe urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball
Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age- Author: Carroll, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 7, 1987
- ISBN10: 0140100180
- Language: English
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 20
Winner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872502
- Language: English
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The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
$19.00 Add to cartThe Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings – the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Meeting in pu- Author: Duriez, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0745956343
- Language: English
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Moments of Being: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$18.99 Add to cartMoments of Being is “the single most moving and beautiful thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote about her own life” (The New York Times) and her only autobiographical writing, published years after her… [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 23, 1985
- ISBN10: 0156619180
- Language: English
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the 20th century’s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. – “Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished foreve… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: August 28 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723390
- Language: English
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An Autobiography
$22.99 Add to cartBack in print in the exclusive authorized edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the “Queen of Mystery.” Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran’s
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 11, 2012
- ISBN10: 0062204572
- Language: English
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The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World’s Greatest Detective
$32.00 Add to cartQuesting was Sherlock Holmes’s business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victorian passion for enquiry, kept abreast of the key scientific breakthroughs of his age, … [more below]
- Author: Lycett, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 071128167X
- Language: English
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Carson McCullers: A Life
$40.00 Add to cartThe first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals
V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her- Author: Dearborn, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0525521011
- Language: English
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The World of Yesterday
$26.95 Add to cartBy the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803226616
- Language: English
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Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
$29.00 Read moreThe #1 Amazon UK bestseller in War Poetry
A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the- Author: Glass, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 198487795X
- Language: English
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Orwell: The New Life
$39.95 Read moreA fascinating exploration of George Orwell–and his body of work–by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers.
We find ourselves i- Author: Taylor, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 163936451X
- Language: English
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The Writing Life
$15.99 Add to cart“For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleag
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: 12-Nov-13
- ISBN10: 0060919884
- Language: English
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This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
$20.99 Add to cartA haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-t
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: 19-Feb-80
- ISBN10: 0156899825
- Language: English
