Literary Figures
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Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life
$19.95 Read moreMany of us have dog-eared copies of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in our kitchens or fondly remember watching episodes of The French Chef, but what was behind the enormous appeal of this ungain… [more below]
- Author: Karbo, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073133
- Language: English
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A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 Read moreThe extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift
He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scott- Author: Peri, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0670786195
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
$19.95 Read more“Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy.” —Portland Book Review
“An absorbing and- Author: Emerson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745184
- Language: English
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced Eu… [more below]
- Author: Di Robilant, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0307597075
- Language: English
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Byron’s Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals
$35.00 Add to cartA new hardcover selection of Lord Byron’s letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels–and timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tr… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Byron, George Gordon, 1788-
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908424
- Language: English
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Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success
$28.00 Add to cartA deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans
Biographer Alexandra Popoff trac- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Popoff, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253214
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness
$30.00 Add to cartA new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.
In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at near
- Author: Aldridge, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0008522693
- Language: English
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The Use of Photography
$22.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document i- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 164421413X
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
$29.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka’s legacy–to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024–explores Kafka’s life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way.
In 2024, exactly o- Author: Watroba, Karolina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366717
- Language: English
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Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
$39.95 Add to cartThis biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and… [more below]
- Author: Horner, Avril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526173743
- Language: English
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Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe
$32.00 Add to cart“Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page
- Author: Krimstein, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1635579538
- Language: English
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Letters Around a Garden
$12.00 Read moreAn intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.
In July 1921, displaced European poet Rainer Maria Rilke sequestered him- Series: German List
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 05 2024
- ISBN10: 180309334X
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$29.99 Add to cartAn expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz.
The g- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185791
- Language: English
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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone
$17.99 Add to cartWhen British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love–and Joni Mitchell’s album Blue was her inspiration. “Blue became part of my language of intimacy,” she writes, recalling… [more below]
- Author: Key, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095164
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
$21.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1476773165
- Language: English
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Completely Kafka: A Comic Biography
$19.95 Read moreA delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s death
This bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas Mahle- Author: Mahler, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1805331582
- Language: English
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Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life
$45.00 Read moreA no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker).
Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld m- Author: Nott, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0374279209
- Language: English
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Country Girl
$24.99 Add to cart“Country Girl is Edna O’Brien’s exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.”-National Public Radio
When Edna O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960,- Series: Back Bay Readers’ Pick
- Author: O’Brien, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0316122718
- Language: English
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Half a Life: Half a Life: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartBy turns comic, tragic, and heartrending, “Half a Life” is a bold, unsentimental portrait of the artist as a girl from nowhere, making herself up from scratch, acting up, and finally overcoming the co… [more below]
- Author: Ciment, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 1997
- ISBN10: 0385488912
- Language: English
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Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath
$36.99 Read moreThe stories of the remarkable mothers who shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath
Julia Stephen, Clara Miller, and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their- Author: Trethewey, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1803991895
- Language: English
