Literary Figures
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This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us about Creativity
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“Loneliness is everywhere these days. But this book will chase some of it away, and maybe replace it with connection.” –Patton Oswalt, Emmy and Gr
“…Rich and sensitive.” —The Wall Street Journal- Author: Deming, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 059349251X
- Language: English
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
$16.95 Add to cartThe International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, “one of Isreal’s most prolific writers and respected intellectuals” (The New York Times), about his turbulent upbringing in the
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 015603252X
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of John Le Carre
$27.99 Read moreThe extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive.
Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought
- Author: Sisman, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063341042
- Language: English
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Rain of Gold
$22.95 Add to cartRain of Gold is a true-life saga of love, family and destiny that pulses with bold vitality, sweeping from the war-ravaged Mexican mountains of Pancho Villa’s revolution to the days of Prohibition in … [more below]
- Author: Villasenor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1558858091
- Language: English
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$28.99 Read moreA Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.
It is a moment shrou- Author: Dawidziak, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250792495
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$0.00 Read moreAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 198217126X
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson Face to Face
$18.00 Add to cart“Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though millions of pages have been written about Dickinson . . . few have provided such a th… [more below]
- Author: Bianchi, Martha Dickinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022586
- Language: English
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84, Charing Cross Road
$16.00 Add to cart“Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road.” — M… [more below]
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140143505
- Language: English
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Survival in Auschwitz
$17.99 Add to cartThe true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, thi… [more below]
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684826801
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
$18.99 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- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 143918271X
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartA collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck’s route by Don Freeman
A Penguin Classic In- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0143107003
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$28.00 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians–the superheroes of reading–as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Pa… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 08, 2024
- ISBN10: 0316567531
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman
$19.95 Add to cartA new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.
“Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.” Why di- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365737
- Language: English
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Wandering Through Life: A Memoir
$26.00 Read moreThe
internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her
own adventurous life story as she enters her eightiesIn a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor,
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161588
- Language: English
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Maus I & II Paperback Box Set
$33.95 Add to cartThe bestselling graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New … [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 2
- Publish Date: October 19 1993
- ISBN10: 0679748407
- Language: English
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Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
$29.00 Read more“Chasing Bright Medusas should appeal to anyone — novice or expert — ready to explore Cather’s life and work in the company of a critic so alert to the shimmering subtlety of her style and the hard … [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593298829
- Language: English
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Larry McMurtry: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartA biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.
In over forty books, in a career that spanned o- Author: Daugherty, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1250282330
- Language: English
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The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experie
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 1400078431
- Language: English
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1931-1934
$21.99 Add to cartThe Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker’s own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends
- Series: Diary of Anais Nin #01
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19, 1969
- ISBN10: 0156260255
- Language: English
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Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
$44.95 Add to cartOver 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed noveli
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180459
- Language: English
