Literary Figures
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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
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
$19.99 Add to cartFrom David Carr (1956-2015), the “undeniably brilliant and dogged journalist” (Entertainment Weekly) and author of the instant New York Times bestseller that the Chicago Sun-Times called “a compelling… [more below]
- Author: Carr, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1416541535
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of… [more below]
- Author: Mallowan, Agatha Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0062093703
- Language: English
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What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered
$24.95 Add to cartIn this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close t… [more below]
- Author: Lane, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 159030389X
- Language: English
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
$21.00 Add to cartIn I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015501
- Language: English
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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
$19.00 Add to cartA classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English- Series: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 076790382X
- Language: English
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Roughing It
$17.00 Add to cartA marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America’s frontier days.
Mark Twain’s rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860’s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timb- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 17 1981
- ISBN10: 0140390103
- Language: English
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Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
$35.00 Read moreNow in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.
By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almos- Author: Moland, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 022671571X
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: The Drawings
$50.00 Add to cartThe first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings
“The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves.”–Lauren Christense- Author: Kilcher, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260660
- Language: English
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes One and Two
$24.00 Add to cartThe life, birth, and early years of ‘the Fariyaq’–the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of “the Fariyaq,” alter ego o- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #1
- Author: Al-Shidy?q, A?mad F?ris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1479800724
- Language: English
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My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir
$18.95 Add to cart“One of the most engaging memoirs I’ve read in ages. The wise and feisty voice I’ve come to know and love in Elizabeth Cunningham’s Maeve Chronicles fills these pages and carried me away. Anyone who h… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 195897210X
- Language: English
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Death Be Not Proud
$18.99 Add to cart“If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism.” —New York Times
Johnny Gunther was only seventee
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Gunther, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061230979
- Language: English
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johns
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060930462
- Language: English
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Capote: A Biography
$22.99 Add to cartThe bestselling biography of the author of In Cold Blood and basis for the award-winning film Capote, Gerald Clarke provides insight into the life of Truman Capote like no one before.
An Americ- Author: Clarke, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439187509
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$33.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0195324870
- Language: English
