Literary Figures
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The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays
$16.95 Read moreFrom 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
$17.00 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
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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 Read more“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 Add to cartNew 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 Read moreIn 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 Add to cartArchetypal 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
