Literary Figures
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
$25.00 Read moreIn her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening … [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 149682122X
- Language: English
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
$23.00 Read moreThe first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of “shocking wisdom” and “intellectual thrill” (The New Yorker).
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extra- Author: Olubas, Brigitta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872650
- Language: English
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Rilke: The Last Inward Man
$19.95 Read moreAn incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry
When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed- Author: Chamberlain, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277218
- Language: English
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Ford Madox Ford
$25.00 Read moreA critical biography of the great modernist editor and novelist.
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Saunders, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147018
- Language: English
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Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography
$16.95 Read moreDiscover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen’s personal letters outlin… [more below]
- Series: Library of Luminaries
- Author: Alkayat, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1452150214
- Language: English
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My Life as a Villainess: Essays
$18.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her par
- Author: Lippman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062997335
- Language: English
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The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
$20.00 Add to cartDuke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman — a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 19 1990
- ISBN10: 0679727523
- Language: English
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My Dog Skip
$16.00 Read moreThis classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is “a rich experience all around…. Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about…. I’d take him home in a shot” (The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767223
- Language: English
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
$15.95 Read moreA memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers–Erich Auerbach, Fran輟is Fé§elon, and W. G. Sebald–and their relat… [more below]
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376393
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
$39.95 Read moreRelegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of the real psycho
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1324090995
- Language: English
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
$27.95 Read moreThe second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.
In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands- Author: Chateaubriand, François-Réne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376172
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition
$22.00 Read moreThe classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material
Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherl- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0374538123
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
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These Possible Lives
$12.95 Add to cartNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fle… [more below]
- Author: Jaeggy, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0811226875
- Language: English
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Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius
$29.95 Read moreA revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an a- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362649
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$32.00 Read moreCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0374126658
- Language: English
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Osip Mandelstam: A Biography
$39.95 Read moreThe personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book
This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combi- Author: Dutli, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 183976158X
- Language: English
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath
$17.95 Add to cartThe electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America’s most acclaimed poets.
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. … [more below]- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0385493916
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10
$56.25 Add to cart“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away–to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #10
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0520267192
- Language: English
