Literary Figures
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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The Writer as Illusionist: Uncollected & Unpublished Work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 Add to cart- 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a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway’s last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953.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
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On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe
$38.25 Read moreA compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a gian- Series: Writers on Writers #14
- Author: Hoffman, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0691212694
- Language: English
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
$19.99 Add to cartHalf a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the wo
- Author: Rankin, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 082488308X
- Language: English
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Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway
$27.00 Add to cartAn intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years.
In the public imagination,- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1982196866
- Language: English
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Switzerland in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth: In the footsteps of his adventurous summer journey in 1911-with hiking suggestions
$36.00 Add to cartA journey in search of Middle-earth
In 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More
- Author: Monsch, Martin S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 29 2021
- ISBN10: 3907323025
- Language: English
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Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review
$36.95 Add to cartMaking No Compromise is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago
- Author: Baggett, Holly A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501771442
- Language: English
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
$19.95 Read moreRenowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the mo
- Author: Hollis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065982
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
$18.99 Read moreFrom the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s fav
- Author: Aldridge, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0008296642
- Language: English
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
$40.00 Read moreRenowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the mo
- Author: Hollis, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393240258
- Language: English
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Stephen King Companion
$40.00 Add to cartThe Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at King’s personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
King expert George Beahm, who has published extensively ab- Author: Beahm, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250054125
- Language: English
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My Life at the Wheel: Toward a Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartIn this collection of impeccably written essays, Schwartz tells us early on that she never thought of her life as a “continuous line” but rather a series of intertwined interrupted experiences. Hers i
- Author: Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953002315
- Language: English
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
$34.95 Add to cartJack Kerouac was one of America’s great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher J
- Author: Maher, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 158979687X
- Language: English
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Conversations with Jimmy Carter
$41.67 Add to cartWhen Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) lost the presidency in 1980, it would have been reasonable to think his public life was coming to an end. The moderate, evangelical, blue-jeans-wearing peanut farmer made a… [more below]
- Series: Literary Conversations
- Author: Head, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: July 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846230
- Language: English
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Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost
$15.95 Read moreA poet who crafted the
greatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. His Paradise Lost is a tou- Series: Bookmarked #16
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1632461528
- Language: English
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
$16.00 Add to cartOver sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers pla
- Series: Canons #71
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1786891581
- Language: English
