Literary Figures
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These Precious Days: Essays
$28.99 Read moreThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.
“The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and invitin
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0063118033
- Language: English
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Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius
$29.95 Read moreA revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.
In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an a- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362649
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$32.00 Read moreCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0374126658
- Language: English
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Osip Mandelstam: A Biography
$39.95 Read moreThe personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book
This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combi- Author: Dutli, Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 183976158X
- Language: English
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath
$17.95 Add to cartThe electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America’s most acclaimed poets.
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. … [more below]- Author: Plath, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 11 1998
- ISBN10: 0385493916
- Language: English
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire’s life and work
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best k- Series: Verso Classics
- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290459
- Language: English
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Personal Writings
$18.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers fo- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525567216
- Language: English
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
$19.00 Read morePart autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir–Christ Stopped at Eboli is a reissue of Carlo Levi’s classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.
It was to- Author: Levi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250623081
- Language: English
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life
$50.00 Read more**One of Literary Hub’s Five “Most Critically Acclaimed” Biographies of 2022**
From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis–a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the le- Author: Curtis, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0385354215
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the 13th Annual Spirited Award, for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits
In th
A history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved- Author: Greene, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0143133012
- Language: English
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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
$16.00 Read moreFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys – “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” –The Boston Globe
In 2011, Grantland ma… [more below]- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0345804333
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10
$56.25 Add to cart“I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away–to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.” … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Papers #10
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0520267192
- Language: English
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The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
$19.00 Read moreThe Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of French author Camara Laye’s youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea.
Long regarded as Africa’s preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-- Author: Laye, Camara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1954
- ISBN10: 080901548X
- Language: English
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The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Appetites: Why Women Want comes this unforgettable collection spanning fifteen years of observations on modern culture and women’s lives. Car… [more below]
- Author: Knapp, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1582433143
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
$0.00 Read moreMary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already “a Classic in his lifetime,” struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan- Author: Trevelyan, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0374203180
- Language: English
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
$16.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author’s descent into an almost suicidal depression.
“Compelling … Harrowing … a vivid portrait of a debilitating- Author: Styron, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 08 1992
- ISBN10: 0679736395
- Language: English
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Little Labors
$16.95 Add to cartSei Shonagon’s Pillow Book–a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book–contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list?
Little Labors is
- Author: Galchen, Rivka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0811225585
- Language: English
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Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
$22.95 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen.
It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more- Series: Illustrated Letters
- Author: Hughes-Hallett, Penelope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1849945349
- Language: English
