Literary Figures
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Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
$40.00 Read moreRobert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres
- Author: Oliver, Willard M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419633
- Language: English
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The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned novelist and critic, an exquisite collection of journal entries from the 1980s and ’90s, tracking a young, gay author’s literary coming-of-age in New York during the AIDS crisis
In 1- Author: Mallon, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593801806
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
$30.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters t- Author: Conrad, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399409190
- Language: English
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The Dazzling Paget Sisters: Identical Twins at the Heart of the 20th Century
$19.00 Add to cartFor fans of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, this is the real-life story of Celia and Mamaine Paget: “devoted twins, whose lives and loves traversed the intellectual currents and crises of mid-twe
- Author: Banks, Ariane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341352
- Language: English
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
$18.95 Add to cartIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its G… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 168137921X
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$34.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217171064
- Language: English
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.
“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559684
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
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A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be re… [more below]- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432949
- Language: English
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Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
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Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century –and a probing… [more below]
- Author: Funder, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593315146
- Language: English
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Jane Austen in 41 Objects
$40.00 Add to cartA new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alongside newer memorabilia inspired by the life she lived.
More than two hundred years after Jane Austen’s
- Author: Sutherland, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246266
- Language: English
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Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe–the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos,… [more below]
- Author: Egginton, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593315073
- Language: English
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bes
- Author: Kushins, C. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 63306867
- Language: English
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Airless Spaces, New Edition
$17.95 Add to cartShort stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty.
After they raised her dose to 42 mg. of Trilafo- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Firestone, Shulamith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902517
- Language: English
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Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
$29.00 Add to cartIn this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life–a transformation fable fro… [more below]
- Author: Chen, Anelise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1984801848
- Language: English
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Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O’Brien
$37.00 Add to cartThe first literary biography of Tim O’Brien, the preeminent American writer of the war in Vietnam and one of the best writers of his generation, drawing on never-before-seen materials and original int
- Author: Vernon, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250358493
- Language: English
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Malaparte: A Biography
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping, definitive biography of the polarizing Italian writer whose infamous politics, relationship with Mussolini, and irrepresable knack for invention made him one of the most provocative artist… [more below]
- Author: Serra, Maurizio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378701
- Language: English
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I Tell You Now (Second Edition): Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
$19.95 Add to cartI Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and … [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Krupat, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293143
- Language: English
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With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
$17.95 Add to cart“Master craftsman” (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-ne… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096930
- Language: English
