Literary Figures
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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures
$14.95 Read moreIn her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, … [more below]
- Author: Goodison, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1912408139
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
$25.00 Read moreIn her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening … [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 149682122X
- Language: English
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Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In, Volume 3
$35.00 Read moreThe extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon–there has never been- Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories #3
- Author: Posner, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 198217692X
- Language: English
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Sunshine State: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Gerard, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006243487X
- Language: English
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Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY – NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s]… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0375755349
- Language: English
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The Road from Coorain: A Woman’s Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of Growing Up Australian
$17.00 Add to cartIn a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood–a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Conway, Jill Ker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724362
- Language: English
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
$19.95 Read more“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio C… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225348
- Language: English
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
$23.00 Read moreThe first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of “shocking wisdom” and “intellectual thrill” (The New Yorker).
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extra- Author: Olubas, Brigitta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872650
- Language: English
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Rilke: The Last Inward Man
$19.95 Read moreAn incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry
When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed- Author: Chamberlain, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277218
- Language: English
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Ford Madox Ford
$25.00 Read moreA critical biography of the great modernist editor and novelist.
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Saunders, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147018
- Language: English
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In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran
$20.95 Add to cartA fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran, author of one of the world’s bestselling books, The Prophet. Chandler explores this beloved Lebanese writer and artist, a mystic who
- Author: Chandler, Paul-Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1538175428
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
$22.00 Read moreBefore Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and b… [more below]
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092947
- Language: English
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Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography
$16.95 Read moreDiscover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen’s personal letters outlin… [more below]
- Series: Library of Luminaries
- Author: Alkayat, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1452150214
- Language: English
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My Life as a Villainess: Essays
$18.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her par
- Author: Lippman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062997335
- Language: English
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Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
$27.99 Read more“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the gu
- Author: Verdelle, A. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0063031663
- Language: English
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Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
$26.00 Add to cartWhen Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she wore proudly. Morrison was clear that she wrote from
- Author: Nittle, Nadra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 150647151X
- Language: English
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In a Time of Distance: And Other Poems
$22.00 Read moreIn a beautiful and transporting volume of poems, the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series takes us on a captivating journey from Africa to Greece, London to North America to Mum… [more below]
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315987
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
$16.00 Read moreEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. I… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144188
- Language: English
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God delivers the gripping, inspirational story about her own search for God.
“A story about becoming human, being recognized- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: February 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0385721277
- Language: English
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The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father
$20.00 Add to cartDuke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman — a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 19 1990
- ISBN10: 0679727523
- Language: English
