Literary Figures
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Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
$21.00 Add to cartFrom rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)–the women who inspired Jane Austen–that… [more below]
- Author: Romney, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1982190256
- Language: English
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Joe Gould’s Secret
$19.00 Add to cartJoseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was
- Author: Mitchell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0375708049
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartWith the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of cl… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119923
- Language: English
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Judy Blume: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.
To know the name Judy Blume is to know- Author: Oppenheimer, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 059371444X
- Language: English
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Wartime Writings 1939-1944
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume includes the aviator’s letters to friends, autobiographical fragments, and meditations. Translated by Norah Purcell; Introduction by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Index.
- Author: de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027534
- Language: English
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cart“If Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.” ―Ian McEwan
A stylish new paperback edition of HITCH-22, the incendiary memoir of a brilliant contrarian and one of Hitchens’ most- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 044654034X
- Language: English
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
$22.50 Add to cartThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write
- Author: Geltner, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970370
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$18.00 Add to cartAt her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English–but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0679766766
- Language: English
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An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year
$35.00 Add to cartCelebrate animals with this daily anthology of poetry with one entry for every day of the year.
From beloved pets to majestic wildlife, and even the first dog in space, animals have long been a source- Author: McMorland Hunter, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1837330018
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the pa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Shields, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035169
- Language: English
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The Complete Notebooks
$45.00 Read moreThe first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.
Throughout his career, French writer and p- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 022669481X
- Language: English
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Travels with Agatha Christie
$28.00 Add to cartIn Travels With Agatha Christie, the celebrated Poirot actor replicates an international expedition which Agatha Chirstie undertook herself in the 1920s. Travelling to the stunning landscapes of Canad… [more below]
- Author: Suchet, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1408723921
- Language: English
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Tradecraft: Writers on John Le Carr?
$45.00 Add to cartOriginal insights on John le Carr? by the people who worked with him, illuminating the storied writer’s working methods.
John le Carr? is one of the most significant political novelists in the English
- Author: Varese, Federico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246487
- Language: English
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Small Town Author
$26.95 Add to cartMore than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited t
- Series: Voice in the American West
- Author: Erickson, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832546
- Language: English
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
$24.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
In the first biography of the iconic David Fo- Author: Max, D. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0147509726
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English
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?mile Zola: A Determined Life
$38.00 Add to cartNuanced and insightful, a comprehensive exploration of the life, work, and times of the celebrated French literary polymath.
?mile Zola is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers, who- Author: Lethbridge, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390173
- Language: English
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The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain
$28.00 Add to cartThe arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos
Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak- Author: Jensen, Morten Høi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300233744
- Language: English
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Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy
$22.95 Add to cartThis biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant bu underpaid author, a t… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0815410387
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285574
- Language: English
