Literary Figures
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$21.99 Add to cartLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a sim… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1465491015
- Language: English
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth
$29.95 Add to cart“Fascinating, gorgeously illustrated and thought-provoking. . . . [A] masterful book.”–Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post
A lavishly illustrated look at the locales familiar to J. R. R. Tolkien, the cre- Author: Garth, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 069119694X
- Language: English
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Lincoln
$24.00 Add to cartA masterful work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from… [more below]
- Author: Donald, David Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 05 1996
- ISBN10: 068482535X
- Language: English
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
$21.95 Add to cartAn instant classic of American sportswriting–the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, “the best mind of his generation” (A. O. Scott) and “the best tennis-writer of all time” (New York Times)
Gath… [more below]- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1598534807
- Language: English
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The Story of a Life
$24.95 Add to cartOne of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer’s coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged tran… [more below]
- Author: Paustovsky, Konstantin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377225
- Language: English
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Writing Haiku: A Beginner’s Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry – Includes Tanka, Renga, Haiga, Senryu and Haibun
$14.99 Add to cartA world of dew
The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace–and its connections to the Japanes
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle- Author: Ross, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316888
- Language: English
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An American Childhood
$17.99 Add to cart“An American Childhood more than takes the reader’s breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you’re a different person, one who has virtually experien
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0060915188
- Language: English
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Notes from the Henhouse: On Marrying a Poet, Raising Children and Chickens, and Writing
$18.00 Add to cartA sharp and witty collection of autobiographical essays by the late Elspeth Barker–acclaimed journalist and author of the beloved modern classic O Caledonia.
Following the publication of her acclaime- Author: Barker, Elspeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 166802215X
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$28.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1476785201
- Language: English
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You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indi
- Author: Alexie, Sherman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 12, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316270741
- Language: English
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartHere is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and t… [more below]
- Author: Acocella, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0307275760
- Language: English
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Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
$19.95 Add to cart“Divine Invasions” is the first full-scale biography of Philip K. Dick, a brilliant writer who, working inside the science fiction field, created some of the most powerful and lasting visionary fictio
- Author: Sutin, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 19, 1991
- ISBN10: 0806512288
- Language: English
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How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and… [more below]
- Author: Marnell, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1476752397
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World’s Great Authors
$40.00 Read moreSee inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book.
Discover the flower gardens, vegetable- Author: Bennett, Jackie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711277168
- Language: English
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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
$18.99 Add to cartIn a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.
Using an essay by the Germ- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0684870193
- Language: English
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Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction
$26.95 Read moreThere has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era–until now.
Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next
- Author: Collins, Max Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1613163797
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
$19.99 Read moreThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascina… [more below]
- Author: Carpenter, Humphrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0618057021
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
$28.00 Read moreShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world’s most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it’s long been a meeting place for anglophone writers
- Author: Biles, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1805300032
- Language: English
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Little Virtues
$13.95 Add to cart“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the … [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1611457971
- Language: English
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Heaven in Ordinary: A Poet’s Corner Collection
$23.99 Add to cartPoet’s Corner is Malcolm Guite’s delectable column that appears on the back page of the Church Times each week. This second collection brings together more than seventy columns created from little gli
- Author: Guite, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1786222620
- Language: English
