Literary Figures
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The World According to Proust
$20.99 Add to cart100 years after Proust’s death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time reade… [more below]
- Author: Landy, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197648681
- Language: English
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Juliet: The Life and Afterlives of Shakespeare’s First Tragic Heroine
$30.00 Read moreThe enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet — a history “as vital and provocative as the character herself” (Literary Review).
Romeo and Juliet may be the greatest love story ever to- Author: Duncan, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600320
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
$32.50 Read moreFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an … [more below]
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1476773157
- Language: English
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A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA “stunning” (Hanif Abdurraqib), “unputdownable” (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire.
How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? Ho- Author: Dunham, Cyrus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0316444979
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
$19.99 Add to cart“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Be
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: De Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060825197
- Language: English
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The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
$27.99 Read more“A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail.” —Charleston News and Courier
Yamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separate
- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0063347873
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
$17.00 Add to cartAs uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world–now a major motion picture.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a deb- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0307405796
- Language: English
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The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir
$15.00 Add to cartA “groundbreaking” memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice–a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly).
It was my child who tau- Author: Buck, Pearl S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1504047966
- Language: English
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
$30.99 Add to cartDuring her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of
- Author: De Veaux, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329356
- Language: English
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The House by the Sea
$23.99 Add to cartHere she found the peace and aloneness she sought–and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: July 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0393313905
- Language: English
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings–the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159834
- Language: English
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The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including: Lev Grossman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lena Dunham, Jesmyn Ward, Yiyun Li, and Anthony Doerr
If you’re feelin- Author: Garrett, Natalie Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 194822660X
- Language: English
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Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anais Nin
$18.99 Add to cartThe best-selling, uncensored diary of Ana? Nin during the year she spent with Henry Miller and his wife in Paris–a thrilling and passionate account of sexual awakening.
From the original, uncensored j… [more below]
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 281
- Publish Date: October 29 1990
- ISBN10: 015640057X
- Language: English
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Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg
$58.00 Read moreA prolific poet, raconteur, activist, and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft notes and manuscripts, photographs and snapshots, appeara… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1648230369
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
$27.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1416591311
- Language: English
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
$17.00 Add to cart” Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review
In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with b- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334265
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cart“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”–The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060854081
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
$35.00 Add to cartA magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our time
Joseph Frank’s award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writ- Author: Frank, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 984
- Publish Date: August 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0691155992
- Language: English
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James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
$19.99 Read moreHow did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? This “fizzing, funny, often deeply moving” (Daily Mail) #1 New York Times bestselling memoir is “dam
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1538709708
- Language: English
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Ana? Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
$19.99 Add to cartA “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writ… [more below]
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 22 1989
- ISBN10: 015652791X
- Language: English
