English - 20th century
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The Bloomsbury Group
$24.95 Read moreAn affordable pocket introduction to the most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the wars
The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with thei
- Author: Spalding, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1855147238
- Language: English
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Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
$29.99 Add to cartAs I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called “Tollers” sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade.
“How did you get on?” he asked.
“I think rather well. I t
- Author: Sayer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1581347391
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
$35.00 Add to cart“No matter what topic Morris covered over the course of her nearly eight-decade career–from travel to history to her own transition–she did so with insight, elegance and unflinching honesty.” —Stua
- Author: Clements, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 195035492X
- Language: English
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The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews
$34.99 Add to cartA Picador Paperback Original
The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century–and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful.–Margaret- Series: Paris Review Interviews #1
- Author: Gourevitch, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0312361750
- Language: English
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Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography
$27.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary chara- Author: Dennison, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363327
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That: Introduction by Miranda Seymour
$30.00 Add to cartOn the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.
Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1101907983
- Language: English
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
$15.95 Add to cartEarly one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. T… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1846682665
- Language: English
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Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley
$34.95 Add to cartA rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of dia- Author: Kaczynski, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1556438990
- Language: English
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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
$20.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sister- Author: Thompson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250099544
- Language: English
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G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
$18.95 Read moreHere is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1586170716
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Add to cartIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- 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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Who Was Roald Dahl?
$6.99 Add to cartJust in time for Roahl Dahl Month
Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children’s book authors ever. Now in this Who Was . . . ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying a- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Kelley, True
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0448461463
- Language: English
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Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
$33.99 Read moreA spiritual classic, this detailed and comprehensive study by one of the greatest expository preachers of our time explains Christ’s teaching in the Sermon on the Mount and incisively applies it to th… [more below]
- Author: Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 593
- Publish Date: July 23 1971
- ISBN10: 080280036X
- Language: English
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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling me
- Series: John MacRae Books
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423624
- Language: English
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
$29.99 Add to cartMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496883
- Language: English
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Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir
$15.95 Add to cartHailed as “a virtuoso exercise” (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. Charming readers, writers, and critics alike, the memoir won
- Author: Athill, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393338002
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
$19.99 Read moreThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascina… [more below]
- Author: Carpenter, Humphrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0618057021
- Language: English
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C. S. Lewis: A Biography
$14.99 Add to cartThis is the true story of C.S. Lewis – one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century – whose books for children and adults have become much-loved classics.
Part of the story of C.S. Lewis has b
- Series: Biography
- Author: Green, Roger Lancelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0007157142
- Language: English
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J. R. R. Tolkien
$15.99 Add to cartIn this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of J. R. R. Tolkien, author and forefather of the fantasy genre.
Little John experienced lots of- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #79
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0711257876
- Language: English
