Literary Figures
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Momma’s Lost Piano: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartWhen she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story… [more below]
- Author: Madden, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1621907821
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship
$18.00 Read moreIn the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seemingly straightforward decision would pro… [more below]
- Author: Perry, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0812966139
- Language: English
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Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
$23.95 Read moreThe second edition of Mark Abley’s acclaimed creative biography, revised and expanded with a new introduction by the author.
When he died in 1947, Duncan Campbell Scott was revered as one of his countr
- Author: Abley, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1738993329
- Language: English
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In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
$20.00 Read moreAs she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi.
On a sweltering day in 2007, having just- Author: Manera Sambuy, Livia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1250872227
- Language: English
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The Apology
$16.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues–a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement–now in paperback.
“A triumph of artistry and empathy.” –Naomi Klein
“A crucial step- Author: Ensler, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1635575117
- Language: English
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A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
$14.95 Read more“Anthony Peake is uniquely qualified to analyze Philip K Dick’s life.” – E J Morgan, author of A Kindred Spirit
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane – Philip K. Dick, VALIS- Author: Peake, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1788284585
- Language: English
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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
