Literary Figures
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Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World’s Greatest Literature
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world’s greatest literature!
Did you know Lennie from Of Mice an
- Author: Grogan, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1604337516
- Language: English
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Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves: Bookmarked
$16.95 Add to cart“There was a book. Oh man was there a book. It is still to this day a book I mention it to any book lover if asked for a recommendation. The best books stick with you, often reminding you of the power
- Series: Bookmarked #5
- Author: Seidlinger, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1632460513
- Language: English
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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
$37.00 Add to cartBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.
By the middle of the twentieth century, Rober- Author: Plunkett, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374282080
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
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Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
$49.95 Add to cartThe incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century man’s world of wealth and privilege
When J.P. Morgan’s personal
- Author: Da Costa Greene, Belle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811353
- Language: English
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Conundrum
$16.95 Add to cartOne of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).
“A profound… [more below]- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171896
- Language: English
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
$14.95 Add to cartA masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature–part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening
Bashō (1644-1694)–a great luminary o- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806895
- Language: English
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I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture
$7.95 Read morePublished for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux.
«J’?rirai por venger ma rac- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1644213613
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
$17.99 Add to cartBill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship–updated with a new i
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062564625
- Language: English
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Sun and Steel
$28.99 Add to cartIn this fascinating document, one of Japan’s best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of wri
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: January 02 1970
- ISBN10: 6159424645
- Language: English
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller – Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail
“Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times “Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a stor- Author: Dunne, Griffin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0593652843
- Language: English
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Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life
$27.00 Add to cartA memorable collection of stories and essays on writing, reading, teaching, and Venice by the celebrated author of the bestselling Guido Brunetti series
Donna Leon’s memoir, Wandering through Life, gav
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165370
- Language: English
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Soseki Natsume’s Collected Haiku: 1,000 Verses from Japan’s Most Popular Writer (Bilingual English & Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Readings of
$19.99 Add to cart1,000 haiku by Soseki Natsume, collected into one volume for the first time!
Soseki Natsume is Japan’s most popular writer, well known in the West for his satirical novels like I Am a Cat, Botchan and- Author: Natsume, Soseki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 4805318457
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
This “lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary” (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and co- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1668010917
- Language: English
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The Invention of Charlotte Bront?: A New Life
$29.95 Add to cartA profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Bront? family as they’ve never been seen before.
Charlotte Bront? had a life as seemingly dramati- Author: Watson, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 163936935X
- Language: English
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Baldwin: A Love Story
$36.00 Add to cartDrawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relati
- Author: Boggs, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0374178712
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$29.99 Add to cartA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0063212072
- Language: English
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She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music
$29.95 Add to cartJane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books o… [more below]
- Author: Dooley, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1526170108
- Language: English
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
$18.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway’s dangerous secret life in espionage
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award
“IMPORTANT” (Wall Street
- Author: Reynolds, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062440144
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo’s Love Letters
$24.00 Add to cart‘I don’t know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty . . . love is like a
- Author: Barbezat, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1836001541
- Language: English
