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Paperback. When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to "Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es'kia Mphahlele", the idea of Mphahlele's death was remote and poetic. That death has now come and we mourn it. This volume offers an account of Mphahlele's rich and varied life. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wits University Press South Africa
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781868144891
- ISBN
- 9781868144891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Hardcover. "Sinclair Lewis Remembered" is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize winning American writer." "" Editor(s): Scharnhorst, Gary; Hofer, Matthew. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817317720
- ISBN
- 9780817317720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.76
€ 60.76
Paperback. A compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life. It presents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe's intellectual autobiography, "A Margin of Hope". Editor(s): Goffman, Ethan; Rodden, John. Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535511
- ISBN
- 9781557535511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.12
€ 45.12
Paperback. An image of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) as a man of gloom and mystery continues to hold great popular appeal. Whether promoting him as angel or demon, 'a man of great and original genius' or 'extraordinarily wicked', this collection of primary materials provides vigorous testimony to support the contradictory images of the man and the writer. Editor(s): Fisher, Benjamin F. Series Editor(s): Myerson, Joel. Series: Writers in Their Own Time. Num Pages: 276 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587298639
- ISBN
- 9781587298639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.59
€ 35.59
Paperback. This pictorial autobiography of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald documents two lives that have become legendary. The book draws almost entirely from the scrapbooks and photograph albums that the Fitzgeralds scrupulously kept as their personal record. Editor(s): Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA); Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald; Kerr, Joan P. Num Pages: 264 pages, 524 halftones and 587 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570035296
- ISBN
- 9781570035296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.08
€ 36.08
Hardback. Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed provides sharp insights on a vast range of cultural issues that are totally unique and original, yet instantly recognizable as Ayn Rand. The collection is philosophical and intellectual, yet accessible to the general public. Editor(s): Podritske, Marlene; Schwartz, Peter. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739131947
- ISBN
- 9780739131947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.63
€ 159.63
Paperback. The acclaimed first volume of a major three-part biography, covering the years up to 1920. Contentious, colourful, revolutionary, here is the young Pound - a determined and energetic genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America. Num Pages: 528 pages, 32 pages of black-and-white plates. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199571468
- ISBN
- 9780199571468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.54
€ 23.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected. Num Pages: 238 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080110
- ISBN
- 9781847080110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. A. N. Wilson is one of the most popular and bestselling historians and biographers writing in Britain today and in Dante In Love he brings to life one of the western canon's most enigmatic figures. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848879508
- ISBN
- 9781848879508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
€ 13.99
€ 10.69
Paperback. A. N. Wilson's Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 44. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782390916
- ISBN
- 9781782390916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.89
€ 46.99
€ 32.89
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447299912
- ISBN
- 9781447299912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.90
€ 13.99
€ 10.90
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935744603
- ISBN
- 9781935744603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.31
€ 17.99
€ 16.31
Paperback. Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Now, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to the page in the fullness and depth she deserves. Num Pages: 413 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- SPCK Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780281074297
- ISBN
- 9780281074297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.33
€ 16.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. Adam Watt's biography considers Proust's early years of personal and aesthetic experiment, the growth of his masterwork A la recherche du temps perdu and his personal decline due to ill-health. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black and white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780230948
- ISBN
- 9781780230948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.71
€ 36.71
Paperback. Adam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in Paris Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847243928
- ISBN
- 9781847243928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. On the centenary of Laurie Lee's birth, a fresh and unusual exploration of 'Cider with Rosie' country, yesterday and today, and of how it inspired the great writer. Num Pages: 160 pages, 45 colour illustrations, 32 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWG; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750953764
- ISBN
- 9780750953764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.35
€ 17.99
€ 14.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408849460
- ISBN
- 9781408849460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.38
€ 23.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas Editor(s): Campomar, Andreas. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188. 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to settle and work. This book contains a portrait of growing up and an insight into Dylan Thomas' poetry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849013642
- ISBN
- 9781849013642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.89
€ 14.99
€ 11.89
Paperback. Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' - her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 197 x 45. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007314669
- ISBN
- 9780007314669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.36
€ 19.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007487240
- ISBN
- 9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38