Literary Figures
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The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
$17.99 Add to cartA journey into the imagination of C.S. Lewis explores the themes and life events that contributed to The Chronicles of Narnia, the most enduring classics of children’s literature
C.S. Lewis was one of
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0061448729
- Language: English
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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
$32.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Both controversi
The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century.- Author: Brennan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829682
- 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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Ahora Imagino Cosas / Now I Imagine Things
$19.95 Read more« Herbert escribe memorias? Ensayos? Novelas? Sus libros son mash-ups de recuerdos, investigaci?n y ornamentaci?n ficcional, marcados por una c?lida falta de respeto por los g?neros –como es … [more below]
- Author: Herbert, Juli?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 8439737459
- Language: Spanish
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Trip to Echo Spring
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2014
Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250063736
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
$45.00 Add to cartWe all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of
- Author: Lycett, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037980
- 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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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
$20.00 Add to cartA former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life–including Post O… [more below]
- Author: Sounes, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136974
- Language: English
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Joe Dimaggio: The Hero’s Life
$21.99 Add to cartJoe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.
In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big–and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era- Author: Cramer, Richard Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0684865475
- Language: English
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Gather Together in My Name
$22.00 Add to cartIn 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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Elegy for Iris
$23.00 Add to cartWith remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch–world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years–and poignantly describes the dim
- Author: Bayley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312253826
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$22.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 019983248X
- Language: English
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway’s First Wife
$18.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ern
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062108824
- Language: English
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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Cracks in My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-Up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes
$14.99 Add to cartGo further under the covers and stay in bed a little longer with Marian Keyes in this winning follow-up to her smash essay collection, Under the Duvet. Written in the witty, forthright style that has
- Author: Keyes, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0060787031
- Language: English
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
$25.00 Add to cartA LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster’s comprehensive, landmark biography of the great Americ
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250848547
- 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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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
$30.99 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined.
Delmore Schwartz was only tw- Author: Atlas, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539146
- Language: English
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
$15.99 Add to cart‘JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK’ CATHY RENTZENBRINK
‘A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND’ STYLIST, 50 UNMI- Author: Fowler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1786484900
- Language: English
