Literary Figures
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography
$29.95 Read moreA comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author
“There never was a good biography of a novelist,” F. Sco
- Author: Salmose, Niklas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915856
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$24.00 Add to cart“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, ” is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait o… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970314
- Language: English
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Alphabetical Diaries
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Recommended Read of the Year by The New Yorker and a New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year
One of The Los Angeles Times‘s 15 Best Books of the Year
One of The New Statesman‘s 20 Best Books- Author: Heti, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371732
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$16.95 Read moreFour “pitch-perfect” (Oprah Daily) essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look into the origins of her literary prowess. S
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1609458249
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
$49.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking exploration of one of America’s most iconic and misunderstood authors
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinati- Author: Kopley, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0813952239
- Language: English
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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we le
- Author: Lerner, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0062354477
- Language: English
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
$17.95 Add to cartOn an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf
- Author: Shattuck, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030825
- Language: English
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The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories
$16.99 Add to cart“Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras.” –Andrew Martin, The New York Times
Best-known- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 4805318341
- Language: English
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Hakim Bey Real and Unreal
$17.95 Add to cartFor a man made of words, it is perversely perfect that none can capture the essence of Hakim Bey. Anarcho-Sufi wiseman, scholar of the unknowable, miraculous monologist, psychedelic shaman: all of thi
- Author: Metzger, Th
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1944651276
- Language: English
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
$28.95 Read moreAnna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature
Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Aus- Author: Beer, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0861542932
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 147678521X
- Language: English
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The Faraway Nearby
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell’s Roses Apricots. Her mother’- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125494
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
$8.95 Add to cart“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”–MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE
To Be Young, Gifted and Black is a special kind of autobiography, in a very spec- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531787
- Language: English
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered–an icon and idol–alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one
- Author: Shapland, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1951142292
- Language: English
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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cart“Worsley offers us much that Austen’s admirers wish to know…with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished.” –Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review
Take a trip back to- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799961
- Language: English
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
$29.99 Add to cartMaking use of the author’s access to the Beach family papers, this account chronicles the literary circle that gathered at Beach’s Paris book shop.
- Series: History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
- Author: Fitch, Noel Riley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393302318
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live–and to create–with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish… [more below]
- Author: Watling, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319664
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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Radical: A Life of My Own
$27.00 Read moreXiaolu Guo has been lauded as a “voice . . . speaking with full freedom” (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation. She is the National
- Author: Guo, Xiaolu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161561
- Language: English
