Literary Figures
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Act One: An Autobiography
$25.00 Add to cartMoss Hart’s Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled wit… [more below]
- Author: Hart, Moss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050898
- Language: English
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Nature’s People: The Hog Island Story from Mabel Loomis Todd to Audubon
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister learned of a cache of unknown poems which she was determined to see published. In time the task fell to Mabel Loomis Todd, a socialite in town who just so
- Author: Schaefer, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1959096532
- Language: English
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In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
$16.95 Add to cartWhether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, … [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 1995
- ISBN10: 0679760237
- Language: English
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The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
$16.00 Add to cartA brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0399576002
- Language: English
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@ [Squiggle] [Star]!
$25.00 Read moreThis legendary 1978 collection of comics by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling Maus, presents the seminal early works that changed how comics are made and appreciated to… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 037571538X
- Language: English
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Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey
$24.00 Add to cartOne of The Guardian‘s Best Books of the Year: Personal writings by the anonymous author who became a literary phenomenon with My Brilliant Friend.
The writer known as Elena Ferrante has taken pains to
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1609452925
- Language: English
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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 Read more“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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