Literary Figures
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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
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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
$21.00 Add to cart
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
