Literary Figures
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Whatever Happened to Frankie King
$21.95 Add to cartA real-life mystery of books and basketball.
Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were com
- Author: Neugeboren, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790775
- Language: English
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard
$25.00 Read moreA new critical biography of medieval England’s most famous poet.
For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales’ lively and oft- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Flannery, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148634
- Language: English
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A Curious Heart: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Boatwright Coker
$24.95 Read more- Author: Hall, Penelope Coker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990949300
- Language: English
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Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (Loa #386): Political Fictions / Fixed Ideas / Where I Was from / The Year of Magical Thinking (Memoir & Play) /
$40.00 Add to cartThe ultimate Didion edition concludes with the brilliant and haunting works from her incomparable late phase.
Library of America now completes its definitive, three-volume edition of one of the most e- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537873
- Language: English
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Letters to His Neighbor
$13.95 Add to cartMarcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-li
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238644
- Language: English
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The Making of Sylvia Plath
$30.00 Read moreSince her death, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1496846672
- Language: English
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This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
$39.95 Add to cartPortrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism
The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged pers
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811329
- Language: English
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Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
$39.95 Read moreThe Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist
Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Time- Author: Cockburn, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290742
- Language: English
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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
$38.99 Add to cartA TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER
‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’
Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-rea
- Author: Byrne, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0008322252
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing
$32.95 Add to cartA provocative and unique look at how the women Hemingway loved shaped this literary legend
Ernest Hemingway’s passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged
- Author: Sindelar, Nancy W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084682
- Language: English
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Screams from the Balcony
$25.00 Add to cartScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski’s life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0876859147
- Language: English
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Q’s Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
$15.00 Read moreThis memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a… [more below]
- Author: Hanff, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140089365
- Language: English
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A Mark Twain Christmas: A Journey Across Three Christmas Seasons
$19.99 Add to cartFilled with the remarkable wit and humor of America’s favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain’s life through little known stories about how he and his family cele
- Author: DeVito, Carlo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1604334487
- Language: English
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
$29.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 159017321X
- Language: English
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In Front of Your Nose: 1946-1950
$19.95 Read moreEssays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1945 to 1950. 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: 555
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 1567921361
- Language: English
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Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
$35.00 Add to cartA book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her con… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1524748439
- Language: English
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El Olvido Que Seremos (Novela Gráfica) / Memories of My Father. Graphic Novel
$25.95 Read moreLa adaptaci?n a novela gr?fica de una de las obras en espa?ol m?s conmovedoras de los ?ltimos tiempos, que inspir? la nueva pel?cula de Fernando Trueba.
Un inolvidable homenaje de un hijo a su padre.- Author: Abad Faciolince, Hector
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 8416131805
- Language: Spanish
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Momma’s Lost Piano: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartWhen she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story… [more below]
- Author: Madden, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907821
- Language: English
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In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
$20.00 Read moreAs she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi.
On a sweltering day in 2007, having just- Author: Manera Sambuy, Livia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250872227
- Language: English
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A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
$14.95 Read more“Anthony Peake is uniquely qualified to analyze Philip K Dick’s life.” – E J Morgan, author of A Kindred Spirit
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane – Philip K. Dick, VALIS- Author: Peake, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1788284585
- Language: English
