Literary Figures
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Letters of C. S. Lewis
$19.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of personal letters–a curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fans–and a short biography by his brother
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643568
- Language: English
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Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays
$18.99 Add to cart“I had a real romance with this book.” –Miranda July
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshing and welcome,” that explores the myriad ways- Author: Hodson, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1250170192
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote’s “”Black and White Dance”” in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 047009821X
- Language: English
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Papillon [Movie Tie-In]
$17.99 Add to cart“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHARLIE HUNNAM AND RAMI MALEK
Henri Charri鑽e, nicknamed “Papillon,” for the butterfly tattoo on his c
- Author: Charriere, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062882465
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
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Mientras Escribo: Memorias de Un Oficio / On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
$17.00 Add to cartPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, til y revelador.
Cuando Stephen King se decidi a escribir sobre su profesi n y su vida, un brutal accidente automovil s… [more below]- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593311507
- Language: Spanish
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The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen
$34.95 Add to cartThe Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity–and the limits–of marriage. The Lawrences come aliv
- Author: Squires, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180467
- Language: English
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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
$17.99 Add to cartCairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father’s Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents’ belle 駱oque mansion by the Nile, t… [more below]
- Author: Rossant, Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0743475615
- Language: English
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-African… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 067973404X
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12
$56.25 Add to cartThe surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his- Series: Mark Twain Papers #12
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0520279948
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
$23.00 Read more“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American panth… [more below]
- Author: Walls, Laura Dassow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 28 2018
- ISBN10: 022659937X
- Language: English
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Festival Days
$17.99 Add to cartA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who “honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life” (Sigrid Nunez, National… [more below]
- Author: Beard, Jo Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0316497223
- Language: English
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham Greene
$28.95 Read more“One of the Year’s Best,” Times Literary Supplement
When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new frien- Author: Mewshaw, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 156792719X
- Language: English
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises
$21.99 Add to cart“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.
- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944437
- Language: English
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
$20.99 Add to cartThe Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet. It challenges
- Author: Derricotte, Toi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319016
- Language: English
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Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway’s Wyoming Summers with Pauline
$18.99 Read more“Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden’s Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming–and I can think of no finer c… [more below]
- Author: Worden, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608986
- Language: English
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The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World
$22.99 Add to cartStep into the extraordinary life of the man who made an impact as an observer wherever he lived, and went on to become the leading western interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture–a position he stil… [more below]
- Author: Kemme, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317604
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
$31.95 Add to cart* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture *
Acclaimed as “the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien” (A. N. Wilson), this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on
- Author: Garth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618574816
- Language: English
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
$16.00 Add to cart“An utterly charming and engaging travel book that offers vivid portraits of unusual corners of Asia, told by a skilled raconteur whose eyes were open wide.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Warned by- Author: Terzani, Tiziano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2002
- ISBN10: 060980958X
- Language: English
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