Literary Figures
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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 Read moreWhen 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
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My Dog Skip
$16.00 Add to cartThis 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 Add to cartThe 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 Read moreNational 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
