Literary Figures
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 11
$56.25 Add to cartMark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave revie… [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #11
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: October 05 2013
- ISBN10: 520272781
- Language: English
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Thinking of Home: William Faulkner’s Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925
$21.99 Add to cart“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home,” says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving … [more below]
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0393321231
- Language: English
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The Romance of American Communism
$34.95 Add to cartWriter and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788735501
- Language: English
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The Durrells of Corfu
$14.95 Add to cartThe Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first plac
- Author: Haag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1781257884
- Language: English
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult
$18.99 Add to cartAn irresistible, nostalgic, insightful–and “consistently intelligent and funny” (The New York Times Book Review)–ramble through classic children’s literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (an… [more below]
- Author: Handy, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1451609965
- Language: English
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Books: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartLarry McMurtry’s fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books is “a necessary and marvelous gift” (San Antonio Expres… [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1416583351
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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Green Mountain Farm
$20.99 Add to cartIn 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Elliott Merrick and his wife, Kate, bought a ramshackle farm on a Vermont hillside for $1,000. Merrick, a young writer with a healthy dose of idealism a… [more below]
- Author: Merrick, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0881504351
- Language: English
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Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy
$26.95 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his lit
- Author: Seitz, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0820356859
- Language: English
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughte- Author: Gordon, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0812980476
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$26.00 Add to cartDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
$19.00 Add to cartEmpirically proving that–no matter where you are–kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman’s hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498).
With- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0743406567
- Language: English
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Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment
$25.99 Add to cartA rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City
When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic, ambitious, and eager to soak up as much o- Author: Giorno, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798752
- Language: English
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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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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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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
$24.00 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
