Literary Figures
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
$18.00 Add to cartA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories … [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022605487X
- Language: English
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Letters of E. B. White
$22.99 Add to cartOriginally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.
These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, an
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0061374598
- Language: English
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
$25.99 Add to cartA revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World Broke in- Author: Goldstein, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182506
- Language: English
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This Wide Terraqueous World
$16.95 Read moreHaunting essays from acclaimed author Laird Hunt balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life.
In this new collection of nonfiction from the celebrated author of Zorrie, Laird- Author: Hunt, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1566896673
- Language: English
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Book of My Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sibling rivalry, and a young man’s life is about America- Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250043549
- Language: English
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Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
$16.95 Read more“One of the most satisfying of all letter-writers.” — Spectator
Surrounded by
Henry James’s beautiful letters to his friend and inspiration, the unconventional art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330918
- Language: English
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J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam
$26.95 Add to cartA moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973). The contributors, a distinguished group of his
- Author: Salu, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0801478871
- Language: English
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C.S. Lewis for Beginners
$15.95 Read moreC.S. Lewis For Beginners is a thorough examination of C. S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, throughout his career as an author and as a professor at Oxford University… [more below]
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Markos, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: June 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1939994802
- Language: English
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Farley and Claire: A Love Story
$29.95 Add to cart“Farley and Claire is a love story, a biography, a Tale of Two Farleys, or perhaps three: the public one, the private one, and the secret one.”–Margaret Atwood
The tumultuous, enduring love story bet- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Harris, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1771649771
- Language: English
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Thread That Runs So True
$18.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1949, Jesse Stuart’s now classic personal account of his twenty years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted and inspired generations of students and teachers.… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1950
- ISBN10: 0684719045
- Language: English
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Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel (Deluxe, Expanded)
$24.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it T… [more below]
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 030682180X
- Language: English
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The Communicating Vessels
$16.95 Add to cartFor the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayr cker, one of the significant European writers of our time.
Friederike Mayr cker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the- Author: Mayröcker, Friederike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0998267589
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$19.95 Add to cartNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 023118705X
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJames Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the template for the Coming of Age novel, while his collection of short stories… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maccabe, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0192894471
- Language: English
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Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human
$32.00 Add to cart“The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer.” -Geoffrey O’Brien, New York Review of Books
A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is t
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157322751X
- Language: English
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A Journey Into Steinbeck’s California, Third Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe third edition to A Journey into Steinbeck’s California features new photographs plus updated sections to provide a closer look into one of the most important American literary figures.
Susan Shilli
- Series: ArtPlace
- Author: Shillinglaw, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1938901827
- Language: English
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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work
$28.95 Read more“Illuminating . . . Handling strong emotions–shame, love, grief–without fuss, Maxwell gives the bald facts of life a poignant shimmer.”–Wall Street Journal
As a fiction editor at The New Yorker fr- Series: Nonpareil Books #11
- Author: Maxwell, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927963
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$15.95 Read more- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1612190901
- Language: English
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True at First Light
$19.00 Add to cartBoth a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway’s last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865726
- Language: English
