Literary Figures
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The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture and women’s lives. Car… [more below]
- Author: Knapp, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1582433143
- Language: English
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
$16.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author’s descent into an almost suicidal depression.
“Compelling … Harrowing … a vivid portrait of a debilitating- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736395
- Language: English
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Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
$22.95 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen.
It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more- Series: Illustrated Letters
- Author: Hughes-Hallett, Penelope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1849945349
- Language: English
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
$20.00 Add to cartPreeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1416541659
- Language: English
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The Story of My Heart
$21.95 Add to cart“A first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity.”
—THE UTAH REVIEWOriginally published in 1883, The Story of My Heart explores the existence of a “soul-life” as British natu
- Author: Jefferies, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1937226417
- Language: English
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
$15.95 Add to cartIn an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation o… [more below]
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 28 1995
- ISBN10: 679751408
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$58.33 Read moreThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691150524
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$18.99 Read moreArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
$19.00 Read moreIn this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0385093306
- Language: English
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir
$18.00 Read more“A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.”–Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbl- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1555976247
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy
$35.00 Read moreIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the ‘Birthplace’ – remains the chief shrine. It’s not as r
- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1350409359
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Add to cartSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
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Mythbusting Hemingway: Debunking Hemingway Myths and Celebrating the Extraordinary Stories of His Life
$34.75 Add to cartDid Ernest Hemingway kill 122 Nazis during World War II? Did he really fight champion Gene Tunney? Did he have very particular thoughts about hair? Mythbusting Hemingway answers these longstanding que
- Author: Bevilacqua, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064053
- Language: English
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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
$30.00 Read moreFor readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.
Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 163557529X
- Language: English
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He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch
$29.95 Read moreLargely remembered for his mysterious disappearance in May 1971, Lew Welch was an important voice of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. He spoke of key issues that America was facing i… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712470
- Language: English
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This Little Art
$20.00 Read moreAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,
- Author: Briggs, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695459
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210415
- Language: English
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A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$24.99 Read moreWhat role did Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Christian faith play in her life and writing?
The beloved Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Fry, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802876285
- Language: English
