Literary Figures
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Read moreNational 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 Read moreNew 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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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
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The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
$16.95 Read moreFrom 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
$17.00 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 Read more“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 Read moreIn 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 Add to cartArchetypal 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
