Literary Figures
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The Essential Tagore
$30.00 Read moreThe Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.
Marking the- Author: Tagore, Rabindranath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0674417046
- Language: English
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Quotations of Ernest Hemingway
$9.95 Read moreThis pocket-sized hardcover book contains nearly one hundred quotations from author Ernest Hemingway. “All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” –Ernest Hemin… [more below]
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1429094958
- Language: English
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A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney
$24.95 Read moreAfter a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney’s de
- Author: Bane, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1625346379
- Language: English
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
$20.00 Add to cartPreeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1416541659
- Language: English
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The Story of My Heart
$21.95 Add to cart“A first-rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity.”
—THE UTAH REVIEWOriginally published in 1883, The Story of My Heart explores the existence of a “soul-life” as British natu
- Author: Jefferies, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1937226417
- Language: English
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
$18.00 Read moreFrom the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth.
- Author: Shalev, Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 080521240X
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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Literary New Hampshire: A History & Guide
$23.99 Read moreNew Hampshire’s literary roots are long and rich, with names like Robert Frost, Celia Thaxter and Willa Cather beckoning book lovers. Travel to Cornish and discover the connections between one of the … [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Crooker, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153788
- Language: English
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
$15.95 Add to cartIn an astonishing feat of literary detection, one of the most provocative critics of our time and the author of In the Freud Archives and The Purloined Clinic offers an elegantly reasoned meditation o… [more below]
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 28 1995
- ISBN10: 679751408
- Language: English
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
$58.33 Read moreThe definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogniti- Author: Jarrett, Gene Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691150524
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$18.99 Read moreArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
$19.00 Read moreIn this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0385093306
- Language: English
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One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir
$18.00 Read more“A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language.”–Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbl- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1555976247
- Language: English
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
$20.00 Read moreDecember 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this
- Author: Matteson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 039388242X
- Language: English
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Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell, the Creation of a Novel, and the Story of Animal Rights
$28.95 Read moreThe story of a remarkable woman who wrote a novel that not only became a classic, but also changed the way human society views and treats animals.
Born in 1829 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell g- Author: Brayfield, Celia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364994
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartA son’s poignant letter to his father–from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. – “One of the great confessions of literatur… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0805212663
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy
$35.00 Read moreIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the ‘Birthplace’ – remains the chief shrine. It’s not as r
- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1350409359
- Language: English
