Literary Figures
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James Joyce
$41.99 Add to cartRichard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce’s life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Lives
- Author: Ellmann, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 20 1983
- ISBN10: 0195033817
- Language: English
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Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts
$17.95 Read moreNovelist Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) left a mark on twentieth-century literature, not only in her homeland of Norway, but across the West. Her painterly eye for the Scandinavian countryside, her uncompr
- Author: Nichols, Aidan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 162164507X
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Add to cartA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie
$17.95 Read moreLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima’s cla
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 087286880X
- Language: English
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Bukowski, a Life
$18.95 Add to cartThe life of Charles Bukowski–laureate of lowlife Los Angeles–a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator.
Neeli Cherk- Author: Cherkovski, Neeli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 157423241X
- Language: English
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
$14.99 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
“A worthy retrospective that feels chilling in the manner of novelist Perry.” -Kirkus Reviews On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme–better known as bestselling- Author: Graham, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1634505182
- Language: English
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food:: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures
$23.99 Add to cartFlorida native Zora Neale Hurston’s early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes.
It considers foods prepared
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198721
- Language: English
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We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
$17.99 Add to cart“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift–just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” –Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming
In the- Author: Phelan, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 150119710X
- Language: English
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Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
$34.95 Read moreA revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century.
Allen Ginsberg’s 1956- Author: Weine, Stevan M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502660
- Language: English
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Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant
$28.00 Read moreAt once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power.
“I bite my friends to heal them.”–Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCE
From a R
- Author: Eberstadt, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Family Declassified
$22.95 Add to cartWhy do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? In Family Declassified, Katherine Fennelly applies her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her ma
- Author: Fennelly, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888191101
- Language: English
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Twain: Letters from Hawaii
$19.99 Add to cart“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever.” –Mark Twain
So Samuel Langhorne Clemens- Series: Pacific Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0824802888
- Language: English
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A Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare’s Old England to Frost’s New England
$23.95 Add to cart– GEOFFREY CHAUCER – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – JANE AUSTEN – ROBERT BROWNING & ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING – EDGAR ALLAN POE – CHARLES DICKENS – CHARLOTTE & EMILY BRONTﾋ – EMILY DICKINSON – MARK TWAIN – … [more below]
- Author: Engel, Elliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0743448979
- Language: English
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La Vida Loca (Always Running): El Testimonio de Un Pandillero En Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cart“A los doce años, Luis RodrÃguez ya era un veterano de la guerra entre las pandillas de East Los Angeles. AtraÃdo por una cultura pandillera aparentemente insuperable, fue testigo de un sinfÃn de … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743281551
- Language: Spanish
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cartNominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Priz… [more below]
- Author: Middlebrook, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741828
- Language: English
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Life in the Garden
$17.00 Read moreFrom the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life
Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions- Author: Lively, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 052555839X
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393073467
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$19.00 Add to cartFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0375759379
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived … [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0375500723
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Five, 1936-1941
$32.50 Add to cartVirginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941. Edited… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #5
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0156260409
- Language: English
