Literary Figures
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Jan Morris: A Life
$37.50 Read moreA spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris.
When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was
- Author: Wheeler, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0063304112
- Language: English
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Fire: From “A Journal of Love” the Unexpurgated Diary of Ana?s Nin, 1934-1937
$25.99 Add to cartIn this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-“that brilliant giant toy” –
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0156003902
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Read moreA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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A Room in Bombay: A Memoir
$29.99 Read moreIndian American author Manil Suri grew up in a large crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai) which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three Muslim families. Their single room, at times a refu
- Author: Suri, Manil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106387
- Language: English
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
$29.00 Read moreA fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King–all conducted by the first scholar to be given … [more below]
- Author: Bicks, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593736729
- Language: English
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Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir
$28.00 Read moreA luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory.
“The painful thing about adolescence is that everything seems absolute, a- Author: Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593804937
- Language: English
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The Naked Civil Servant
$17.00 Add to cartA comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s
In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement–it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courag- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Crisp, Quentin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0141180536
- Language: English
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Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life
$32.00 Add to cartOne of the Best Memoirs and Biographies of 2025 at The Guardian A revealing look at the life and writing of the great modernist.
This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one o- Author: Kimber, Gerri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391625
- Language: English
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Mrs. Orwell
$29.99 Read moreEileen Blair, wife and partner of George Orwell, is brought out of her husband’s shadow in this riveting graphic novel, which follows the couples’ tireless campaign to expose difficult political truth
- Author: Chalupa, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250877857
- Language: English
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La Reina de Espadas / The Queen of Swords
$19.95 Add to cartPreseleccionado para National Book Award en la categoria de Literatura Traducida 2025
Una de las autoras m?s sugestivas de la literatura en espa?ol, ganadora del Premio Latin American Voices, recrea l- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 8426430775
- Language: Spanish
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Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
$32.50 Add to cartAn account of Woolf’s life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. “Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose…make this a most valuable and pleasurable book” (Publishers… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #03
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 0156260387
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
$18.00 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397731
- Language: English
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Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
$16.95 Add to cartAllen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman -among the other things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Pod… [more below]
- Author: Podhoretz, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554171
- Language: English
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life
$30.00 Read more“Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age.” –Cal Newport,
- Author: Currey, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250824524
- Language: English
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Chosen Forever
$17.99 Add to cartIn the heartwarming sequel to Chosen by a Horse, Susan Richards tells of the continuing gifts brought to her life by her beloved horse, Lay Me Down.
Readers cried with Susan Richards when, at the end o… [more below]
- Author: Richards, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 015603302X
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards–now wi
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year- Series: Toni Morrison Lecture
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278083
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
$16.99 Add to cartSpiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author’s seminary days, early ministry, and writing career.–James Merrill, author of Changing Light at Sandover
- Author: Buechner, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 1991
- ISBN10: 0060611820
- Language: English
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August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art
$35.00 Add to cartPlaywright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays–including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson–that chronicle the lives of Black Amer… [more below]
- Series: Regional
- Author: Glasco, Laurence A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0822948540
- Language: English
