Literary Figures
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The Mystery Guest
$18.00 Read moreA “frank and wry, mad and graceful” (Slate) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it.
When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Gr?goire Bouillier had no way of knowing tha- Author: Bouillier, Gr?goire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341050
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$35.00 Read moreThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
“Magisterial.”–Kirkus Reviews More than tw- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300221754
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Read moreThe life, work, and legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most published African American women.
This book explores the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most-published Africa- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Hopson, Cheryl R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1789147956
- Language: English
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Reading, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1328595919
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
$26.00 Read moreA feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
Deborah Levy’s vital litera- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614970
- Language: English
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Groundwork
$42.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster’s nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude.
Paul Auster spent his fifty-y- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 125024580X
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartAn 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 Read moreWhen 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
