Literary Figures
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Sculptor’s Daughter
$19.99 Add to cartTove Jansson s memoirs of her early years, filled with joy, exuberance, and the satisfaction of being with an abundance of photographic illustrations.
The excitement of being alive and savoring the goo
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 006233462X
- Language: English
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After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
$29.99 Add to cartA moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and “gifted storyteller” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker).
Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody
- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0618684182
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$45.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twai- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 525561722
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Life Album
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of th- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300262205
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
$21.99 Add to cartThis “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) from New York Times bestselling author James Patterson is a collection of riveting stories celebrating the heroic efforts of the people who are on the… [more below]
- Series: Heroes Among Us #4
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538758989
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.
Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is exp- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390502
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
“There never was a good biography of a novelist,” F. Sco
- Author: Salmose, Niklas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915856
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
$49.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authors
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinati- Author: Kopley, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0813952239
- Language: English
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The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories
$16.99 Add to cart“Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras.” –Andrew Martin, The New York Times
Best-known- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 4805318341
- Language: English
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Hakim Bey Real and Unreal
$17.95 Add to cartFor a man made of words, it is perversely perfect that none can capture the essence of Hakim Bey. Anarcho-Sufi wiseman, scholar of the unknowable, miraculous monologist, psychedelic shaman: all of thi
- Author: Metzger, Th
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1944651276
- Language: English
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
$28.95 Read moreAnna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature
Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Aus- Author: Beer, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0861542932
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cart“Worsley offers us much that Austen’s admirers wish to know…with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished.” –Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review
Take a trip back to- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799961
- Language: English
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
$29.99 Add to cartMaking use of the author’s access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach’s Paris book shop.
- Series: History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
- Author: Fitch, Noel Riley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393302318
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Mark Twain: Adventures from the Father of American Literature
$8.95 Add to cartBorn Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain is best known for his stories of American boyhood, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Lauded as the greatest humourist America has ever produced, e
- Series: Little Books of Literature #8
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1800691955
- Language: English
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Shame
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon,” begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 09 1998
- ISBN10: 1583220186
- Language: English
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Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
$24.95 Read moreThis is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status–Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner pri… [more below]
- Author: Boyers, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1942134886
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
$18.99 Add to cart“So many memoirs make you feel that you’ve been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not j
- Author: Grealy, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 006328863X
- Language: English
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