Literary Figures
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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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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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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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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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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0062004832
- Language: English
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Bard, Kinetic
$19.95 Add to cartThe expansive, countercultural, and wildly prolific life of celebrated poet Anne Waldman, in her own words.
In Bard, Kinetic, Anne Waldman assembles a multifaceted portrait of her life and praxis as a- Author: Waldman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 156689669X
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Shakespeare: Timeless Wit and Wisdom
$8.95 Add to cartA fascinating collection of quotes from the work of Britain’s greatest playwright, his words reveal insights into his enduring popularity and his masterful command of language. He introduced over 3,00
- Series: Little Books of Literature #6
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691920
- Language: English
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My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943
$19.95 Read moreEssays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1940 to 1943. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our wo
- Series: Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 477
- Publish Date: April 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1567921345
- Language: English
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In the Great Green Room
$23.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown.
Margaret’s books have- Author: Gary, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160626
- Language: English
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Heart Earth
$17.99 Add to cartIvan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky–inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II–is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501156055
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award
An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe–highlighting his fascination and feuds with sc
Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award- Author: Tresch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849403
- Language: English
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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
$22.95 Read moreThe first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his
- Author: Souder, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 039386832X
- Language: English
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The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes That Inspired the Little House Books
$27.95 Read more“If you loved Wilder’s books, or if you garden with a child who loves her books, you will enjoy the read.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In this revealing exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s deep conne- Author: McDowell, Marta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: September 20 2017
- ISBN10: 160469727X
- Language: English
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Star-Crossed Lovers: James Jones, Lowney Handy, and the Birth of “From Here to Eternity” James Jones, Lowney Handy, and the
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Lowney Handy’s scandalous small-town open marriage to author James
Jones’s extraordinary apprenticeship with Maxwell Perkins, Star-Crossed Lovers illuminates an unforgettable love
story. She was an
- Author: Moore, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1956474218
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie at Home
$40.00 Add to cartThis new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author.
Hilary Macaskill examines the- Author: Macaskill, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1914902009
- Language: English
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The Toni Morrison Book Club
$17.95 Add to cartIn this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about t… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Juda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 029932494X
- Language: English
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Discovering Carl Sandburg: The Eclectic Life of an American Icon
$16.95 Add to cartEveryone knew his name…
During the first half of the twentieth century, Carl Sandburg seemed to be everywhere and do everything: poet and political activist; investigative reporter, columnist, and fi
- Author: Quinley, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 29 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218051204
- Language: English
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Traces of Enayat
$18.95 Add to cartFrom one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine.
“A subtle and
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1945492848
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$19.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writer… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980328
- Language: English
