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A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England
$23.95 Add to cart– GEOFFREY CHAUCER – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – JANE AUSTEN – ROBERT BROWNING & ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING – EDGAR ALLAN POE – CHARLES DICKENS – CHARLOTTE & EMILY BRONTﾋ – EMILY DICKINSON – MARK TWAIN – … [more below]
- Author: Engel, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0743448979
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$19.00 Add to cartFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0375759379
- Language: English
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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and self-discovery by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor
Sue Monk Kid- Author: Kidd, Sue Monk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117971
- Language: English
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Unbridled Dreamer
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #1
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065274
- Language: English
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Living on Luck
$20.00 Add to cartLiving on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings. The ever clever Charles Bukowski fills the pages with his rough exterior and juicy center.
- Series: Living on Luck Vol. 2 #2
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0876859813
- Language: English
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, S
San Francisco Chronicle – Newsweek/The Daily Beast – The Seattle Times – The Economist – Kansas City Star – BookPage- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0812982606
- Language: English
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
$32.50 Add to cartThe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of sign… [more below]
- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872027
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$22.00 Read moreIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
“A curiousl- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394486927
- Language: English
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The Bloomsbury Group
$24.95 Read moreAn affordable pocket introduction to the most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the wars
The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with thei
- Author: Spalding, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1855147238
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
$14.95 Add to cart254 pages, 4 3/4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series
- Series: South Dakota Biography
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097779556X
- Language: English
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Crazy Dave
$24.95 Add to cartThe unflinching and marvelously humane story of a man born with Down syndrome in an Ojibway community.
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514238
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
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Elia Kazan: A Life
$32.95 Add to cartElia Kazan’s varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Art… [more below]
- Author: Kazan, Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 860
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0306808048
- 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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The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (a Unique Ernest Hemingway Biography, Gift for Writers)
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to h… [more below]
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1642504637
- Language: English
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Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
$29.99 Add to cartAs I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called “Tollers” sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade.
“How did you get on?” he asked.
“I think rather well. I t
- Author: Sayer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1581347391
- Language: English
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The Journey Home: Some Words in the Defense of the American West
$27.00 Add to cartThe Journey Home ranges from the surreal cityscapes of Hoboken and Manhattan to the solitary splendor of the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It is alive with ranchers, dam builders, kissing bu… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265622
- 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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Cross Bronx: A Writing Life
$121.92 Add to cartIn his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.
Cross Bronx is- Author: Quinn, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1531500943
- 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
