Literary Figures
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927
$19.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s diary from his early twenties–a thought-provoking work that reveals his earliest thinking about war, atheism, religion, and humanity.
While serving his cou
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643584
- Language: English
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A Frozen Woman
$15.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux’s teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in he- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 08 1996
- ISBN10: 188836338X
- Language: English
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Out of Place: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that … [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679730672
- Language: English
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Dry: A Memoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.
“I was addicted to “Bewitched” as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the Fir- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 125003440X
- Language: English
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
$28.00 Add to cartIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of t
- Author: Lear, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1250094194
- Language: English
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Paris France
$15.95 Add to cartCelebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never again to return to her native America. While in Par… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403749
- Language: English
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The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
$19.99 Add to cartMore than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach’s timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love
“We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our ple
- Author: Bach, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0061148482
- Language: English
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The Books in My Life
$19.95 Add to cartSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking–but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0811201082
- Language: English
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Tis: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immi… [more below]
- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865742
- Language: English
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equa
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13, 2007
- ISBN10: 0375755144
- Language: English
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America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction
$19.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation’s most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437417
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$17.95 Read moreA reminiscence of Christmas, from the viewpoint of a young boy, that has been a holiday favorite for decades.
In rich, humorous, magical prose, poet Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-tr- Series: Godine Storyteller
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 43
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0879233397
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Beatnik
$17.00 Add to cartLong regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually a… [more below]
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140235396
- Language: English
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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
$21.99 Add to cartInternationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins’ legendary memoir–wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.
Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird
- Author: Robbins, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0062267418
- Language: English
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Letter to My Daughter
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Le- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1400066123
- Language: English
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Resting Among Us: Authors’ Gravesites in Upstate New York
$32.95 Add to cartToo often, the lives and works of authors who called Upstate New York home are overshadowed by the icons of New York City. Resting among Us uncovers the region’s rich literary heritage through Steven … [more below]
- Series: New York State
- Author: Huff, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611609
- Language: English
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Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
$14.00 Read moreA totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante’s early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.
The poems themselves- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0143106201
- Language: English
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Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
$22.00 Add to cart“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” –The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgeral… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1982117125
- Language: English
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
$17.95 Add to cartInstantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as “The Lott
- Author: Franklin, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1631493418
- Language: English
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The Little Virtues: Essays
$14.99 Add to cartIn this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured … [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1628728256
- Language: English
