Literary Figures
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Letters to Véra
$25.00 Add to cartNo marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to V?ra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasur… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0307476588
- Language: English
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey’s wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little bo- Author: Dery, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316188549
- Language: English
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The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir
$28.95 Add to cartGrowing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring, and mercurial
- Author: Gilman, Priscilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0393651320
- Language: English
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Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
$19.00 Add to cartA “touchstone for aspiring artists and writers” (Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life.
Renowned American- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1476740984
- Language: English
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One Writer’s Beginnings
$18.00 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American le… [more below]
- Author: Welty, Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982152109
- Language: English
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Hope Against Hope: Introduction by Maria Stepanova
$32.00 Read moreNadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of life with her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the most moving testaments to the value of literature… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 110190836X
- Language: English
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Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
$17.99 Add to cartSmoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this “gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring” (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and pow… [more below]
- Author: Yates Garcia, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1538763060
- Language: English
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A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
$30.00 Add to cartA Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia
- Author: George, Lynell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1626400636
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
$18.99 Add to cartAgatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is the fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie’s long hidden notebooks, including illustrations, analyses, and two previously unpublished Hercule … [more below]
- Author: Curran, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061988375
- Language: English
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Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartI sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love, says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323056
- Language: English
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Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
$17.00 Add to cart“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, … [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1501131737
- Language: English
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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 – September 15, 1979
$19.00 Add to cart“In the sentence ‘She’s no longer suffering, ‘ to what, to whom does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?” –Roland Barthes, from his diary
The day after his mother’s death in October 1977,- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533113
- Language: English
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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
$25.00 Add to cartThe first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, o… [more below]
- Author: Brodie, Fawn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679730540
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
$30.00 Add to cartAn illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira Kalman
Considered on- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1594204608
- Language: English
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Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy
$19.99 Add to cart“Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true…The best memoir I’ve read.” — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Reunion
Bestselling author Cass
- Author: Conroy, Cassandra King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0062943405
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Key West
$10.95 Add to cartThe only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho
- Author: McIver, Stuart B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 156164241X
- Language: English
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
$10.00 Read moreSlave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 048640661X
- Language: English
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Letters to Felice
$19.95 Add to cartMore than two decades of letters from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century–the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial–to the people in his life, from his years as a student in Pra… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0805208518
- Language: English
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A Child’s Christmas in Wales
$11.95 Add to cartThis gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth cent… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0811226220
- Language: English
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Raising Ourselves
$16.95 Add to cartVelma Wallis shares the love, loss, and struggle that mark her
coming of age in a two-room cabin at Fort Yukon, Alaska, where
she is born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children. Family life is
defined b
- Author: Wallis, Velma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0972494472
- Language: English
