Literary Figures
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My Dog Skip
$16.00 Read moreThis classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is “a rich experience all around…. Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about…. I’d take him home in a shot” (The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767223
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship
$29.95 Read moreTells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens’ relationship with his sister-in-law, his ‘best and truest friend’ Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to li… [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1526166089
- Language: English
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The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900
$24.00 Read moreHistorian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail–namely, the human impetus behind art that is … [more below]
- Series: The Weight of Words
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1587310090
- Language: English
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
$15.95 Read moreA memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers–Erich Auerbach, Fran輟is Fé§elon, and W. G. Sebald–and their relat… [more below]
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376393
- Language: English
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The Traces: An Essay
$17.95 Read moreThe Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.
The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that exp
- Author: Small Staid, Mairead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1646052005
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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Sam Shepard: A Life
$18.95 Read more“John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America’s foremost Renaissance man of letters.” –Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devot… [more below]
- Author: Winters, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1619029731
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
$39.95 Read moreRelegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of the real psycho
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1324090995
- Language: English
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815
$27.95 Read moreThe second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.
In 1800, François-René de Chateaubriand sailed from the cliffs of Dover to the headlands- Author: Chateaubriand, François-Réne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376172
- Language: English
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and the People That Inspired Ernest J. Gaines
$39.95 Add to cartCherie Quarters combines personal interviews, biography, and social history to tell the story of a plantation quarter and its most famous resident, renowned Louisiana writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee
- Author: Laney, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0807178020
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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Literary Places
$19.99 Read moreInspired Traveller’s Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature’s best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through … [more below]
- Series: Inspired Traveller’s Guides #2
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1781318107
- Language: English
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The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition
$22.00 Read moreThe classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material
Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherl- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0374538123
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
$22.00 Read moreA bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS … [more below]- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593134656
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf
$26.00 Read more“A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
While Virginia Woolf–one of our century’s most brilliant and- Author: Lee, Hermione
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0375701362
- Language: English
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These Possible Lives
$12.95 Add to cartNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fle… [more below]
- Author: Jaeggy, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0811226875
- Language: English
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Correspondence
$16.50 Add to cartPaul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg … [more below]
- Series: German List
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0857426427
- Language: English
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
$18.95 Read moreLambda Literary Award finalist
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution
- Author: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 155152600X
- Language: English
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Lou Reed: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$15.95 Read moreA revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ‘n’ roll–as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself
In this collection of powerful interviews… [more below]- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Reed, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1612194788
- Language: English
