Literary Figures
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Long Ago in France: The Years in Dijon
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRA… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0671755145
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1915-1919
$35.00 Add to cart“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf…. [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her … [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0544310373
- Language: English
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At Seventy: A Journal
$25.99 Add to cartMay Sarton–poet, novelist, and chronicler–occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine,… [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393310302
- Language: English
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History
$17.99 Add to cartA “gorgeous” (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America’s most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade – told by the inherit… [more below]
- Author: Rowbottom, Allie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0316510629
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
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Incest: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana? Nin (1932-1934)
$25.99 Add to cartThe continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. “It is Nin… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0156443007
- Language: English
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931-1935
$32.50 Add to cartThe penultimate volume of Woolf’s diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. “A book of ex… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #4
- Author: Bell, Anne O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: December 19 1983
- ISBN10: 0156260395
- Language: English
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Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2: Vol. 2 (1920-1924)
$29.99 Add to cartThe second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf’s development as a writer. “Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama… above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too muc… [more below]
- Series: Diary of Virginia Woolf #2
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0156260379
- Language: English
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The Art of the Wasted Day
$22.00 Add to cart“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history’s champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, “Fresh Air”
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of l- Author: Hampl, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0143132881
- Language: English
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Logical Family: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”–Neil Gaiman
“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decad
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062391259
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: A Life
$34.99 Add to cartThis fascinating reassessment of America’s most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends… [more below]
- Author: Parini, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063412
- Language: English
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One Life at a Time, Please
$20.00 Add to cartFrom stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: February 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805006036
- Language: English
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In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories
$27.99 Add to cartHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan’s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multiv… [more below]
- Author: Danly, Robert Lyons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 25 2007
- ISBN10: 0393309134
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cart“[This] biography is the primary source of our knowledge of Kafka’s personal life and character, and is invaluable to anyone at all interested in the mind of the Czech genius.”–Alfred Kazin, New York… [more below]
- Author: Brod, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806703
- Language: English
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My Life and Hard Times
$15.99 Read more“Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks b
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060933089
- Language: English
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Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962
$18.99 Add to cart“The life she describes is heroic…yet astonishingly full, with political work, writing, friendships, lovers and travel.”– San Francisco Chronicle
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s extraordinary a
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929561
- Language: English
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The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda: Japan’s Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet: Includes a Translation of Santoka’s Diary of the One-Grass Hu
$19.99 Add to cartThe fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.
Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan’s most beloved modern poets, famous for hi- Author: Oyama, Sumita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 4805316551
- Language: English
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
$21.95 Add to cartThe autobiography of New Zealand’s most significant writer
New Zealand’s preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections,- Author: Frame, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1619027887
- Language: English
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$19.99 Read more“Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
–Ursula K. Le Guin
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as… [more below]- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1612197795
- Language: English
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300 Arguments
$16.00 Add to cart“Jam-packed with insights you’ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin….A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.”–Celeste Ng, author of Littl
- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977642
- Language: English
