Literary Figures
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The Worlds of Jane Austen: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Novels
$35.00 Add to cartThe Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain’s most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen lived through revol
- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004184
- Language: English
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Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon’s Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina
$27.95 Add to cartColonial America’s Greatest Literary Mystery Solved at Last
Unmasking The Humourist is a groundbreaking literary investigation that solves one of Colonial America’s greatest mysteries: Who wrote The Hu
- Series: The Wired Researcher
- Author: Kendrick, Brent L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886799156
- Language: English
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And Then? and Then? What Else?
$18.99 Add to cartWriting as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential str
- Author: Handler, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 132409706X
- Language: English
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The Queen of Swords
$24.00 Add to cartIn what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex l… [more below]
- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641872
- Language: English
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
$32.00 Add to cart“[An] essential Beat masterpiece.” —The Village Voice.
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119540
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Master of the Macabre
$17.00 Add to cartStep into the fascinating and gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe, the master of macabre, with this compelling literary biography that unravels his dark genius, iconic works, and enduring influence on got… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: Leland, Levi Lionel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1507224133
- Language: English
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson
$27.00 Add to cartThe country’s most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. … [more below]
- Author: Benfey, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115081
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: The Original Romance Novelist
$17.00 Add to cartTake a trip back in time to the Regency-era life of Jane Austen, one of literature’s most beloved novelists, with this captivating exploration of her works and the timeless themes of romance, family, … [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: Saidi, Janet Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 150722415X
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Chiyo-Ni: The Life and Art of Japan’s Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
$19.99 Add to cart“Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi are to be deeply thanked for having given us with such articulate care a poetry major in any language and in any place or time.” –Robert Creeley, poet
The Poetr- Author: Donegan, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 480531866X
- Language: English
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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
$27.00 Add to cart“Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
J.M. Coetzee’s lat- Series: Scenes from Provincial Life #1
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014026566X
- Language: English
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation
$35.00 Add to cartNo writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth?a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine tha
- Author: Drout, Michael DC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093889
- Language: English
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Selected Letters of John Updike
$55.00 Add to cartThe arc of literary giant John Updike’s life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers–a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness … [more below]
- Author: Updike, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801547
- Language: English
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Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
$23.00 Add to cartA chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked … [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0345467345
- Language: English
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Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
$40.00 Add to cartTroublemaker tells the wild and unlikely story of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, a British aristocrat-turned-American Communist, famous for expos?s like The American Way of De
- Author: Kaplan, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0061578940
- Language: English
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Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard
$31.00 Add to cartA revelatory, magisterial biography of Sam Shepard–the dark, rugged genius of modern American theater and film, “the poet laureate of America’s emotional badlands” (Jack Kroll).
Sam Shepard was a tru- Author: Dowling, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1501195735
- Language: English
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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
$35.00 Add to cartA delightful and majestic reckoning with the ascent of American fiction in the twentieth century through the prism of the under-known man who had an astonishing amount to do with it
Malcolm Cowley is- Author: Howard, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0525522050
- Language: English
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A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices
$24.00 Add to cartBringing together voices from across Turtle Island, a groundbreaking collection of letters from Indigenous writers, activists, and thinkers–to their ancestors, to future generations, and to themselve… [more below]
- Author: Sinclair, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0735250367
- Language: English
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The Durrells: The Story of a Family
$32.00 Add to cartA variously tragic tale of escapism and assimilation, Richard Bradford’s The Durrells explores the truth behind the image.
The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th ce- Author: Bradford, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1448218098
- Language: English
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black work… [more below]
- Author: McCall, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679740708
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy
$17.00 Add to cartExplore the extraordinary life of J.R.R. Tolkien, the legendary creator of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, in this captivating literary biography that celebrates the father of modern fantasy and… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Portraits
- Author: Marshall, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1507224176
- Language: English
