Literary Figures
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Chaucer: A European Life
$24.95 Read moreAn acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English writers
Geoffrey Chaucer is often called the father of Engl- Author: Turner, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 691210152
- Language: English
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The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway
$12.99 Add to cart“A seasoned author and Hemingway scholar, Scott Donaldson brings this remarkable story to life with precision, lending keen new insight into Hemingway’s elusive character. A masterful work and a crack
- Author: Donaldson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1943657688
- Language: English
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Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile
$22.95 Read moreRevised, Expanded Edition
Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering lite
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 11, 2011
- ISBN10: 1586174967
- Language: English
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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (REV)
$58.57 Add to cartThe standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated
Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its tho
- Author: Bruccoli, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1570034559
- Language: English
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
$17.00 Add to cart“Generous and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay * Nominated for “Best Memoir & Autobiography” by Goodreads- Author: Weiner, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1476723427
- Language: English
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Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
$27.00 Add to cartA frank and entertaining memoir–from the daughter of Edward Said–now in paperback.
The daughter of the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said and a sophisticated Lebanese- Author: Said, Najla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1594632758
- Language: English
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The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story
$18.99 Add to cart“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews–featuring family photos, personal le… [more below]
- Author: Neiderman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1982182644
- Language: English
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAngela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I ma- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684874350
- Language: English
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
$19.00 Add to cartIn this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century–Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton–“the friendship and rivalry that the pair shared–not to mention the t… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1982138424
- Language: English
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Travels with Myself and Another
$27.00 Add to cartNow including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extrao… [more below]
- Author: Gellhorn, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1585420905
- Language: English
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After the Eclipse
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. A fierce memoir of a mother’s murder, a daughter’s coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life.
When Sar
- Author: Perry, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 132851191X
- Language: English
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Phillis Wheatley Peters
$27.95 Add to cartThis new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrit
- Author: Carretta, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363324
- Language: English
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Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$14.95 Add to cartIn honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben
“Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0807098132
- Language: English
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradit… [more below]
- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0385343523
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
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The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables: The Enchanting Island That Inspired L. M. Montgomery
$24.95 Read moreOne of Smithsonian magazine’s Best Books About Travel of 2018
The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery’s deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired- Author: Reid, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 27, 2018
- ISBN10: 160469789X
- Language: English
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Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
$38.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 PLUTARCH AWARD – An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm.
“Clam… [more below]- Author: Spiegelman, Willard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0525658262
- Language: English
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
$19.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
In the spirit of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circlin- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429460
- Language: English
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Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God
$17.95 Read moreAlthough humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the hu… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Robert Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1634312422
- Language: English
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, fr- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0143110888
- Language: English
