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Biography: literary
Paperback. Presents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241953273
- ISBN
- 9780241953273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. BIC Classification: BGA; BGLA; DNF; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807001912
- ISBN
- 9780807001912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.04
€ 18.99
€ 15.04
Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226344690
- ISBN
- 9780226344690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.00
€ 54.00
Hardback. Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. This book offers a collection of letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. It deals with his life and work. Editor(s): Crawford, Evelyn Louise; Patterson, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; BJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285330
- ISBN
- 9780520285330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Paperback. Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. This book offers a collection of letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. It deals with his life and work. Editor(s): Crawford, Evelyn Louise; Patterson, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; BJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285347
- ISBN
- 9780520285347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.56
€ 42.56
Paperback. The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227948
- ISBN
- 9781780227948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.77
€ 15.99
€ 11.77
Paperback. Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. This title deals with his works. Editor(s): Ermarth, Michael. Translator(s): Schneider, Deborah Lucas. Num Pages: 252 pages, 2 halftones, 2 figures. BIC Classification: BGLA; DNF; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226104805
- ISBN
- 9780226104805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.21
€ 23.99
€ 19.21
Paperback. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, the author is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: 'I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.' This title deals with these works. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 38. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099582946
- ISBN
- 9780099582946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.94
€ 19.99
€ 14.94
Hardcover. Num Pages: 335 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 172 x 246 x 29. Weight in Grams: 932.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763540797
- ISBN
- 9788763540797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.90€ 40.36
€ 50.90
€ 40.36
Hardcover. A biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women. Series: Literary Traveller. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 116 x 13. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906598884
- ISBN
- 9781906598884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF; BGL; GBCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- St Martin´s Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Clr Csm
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250134547
- ISBN
- 9781250134547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.73
€ 17.99
€ 16.73
Paperback. A self-portrait of a man of letters driven by a restless hunger for adventure, it takes the readers on a voyage, from a gas-lit big-house childhood in 1930s Tipperary, to college days at Cambridge, enraptured by Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, to commando training and naval service in the World WarII, protecting Allied convoys from Uboat attack. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd Ireland
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843510703
- ISBN
- 9781843510703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.46
€ 19.99
€ 18.46
Paperback. A Brave New introduction to one of the twentieth century's greatest visionaries Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851689231
- ISBN
- 9781851689231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.48
€ 13.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. This biography is the first to pay close attention to Havel's poetry and to place his later work as a writer of plays, essays, prison letters and presidential speeches in the context of his poetic beginnings. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 19. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780236650
- ISBN
- 9781780236650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.23
€ 31.23
Paperback. A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the surprisingly close and incredibly contentious friendship of its two most colorful characters. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; BGL; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393353020
- ISBN
- 9780393353020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.45
€ 18.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. This fast-paced new biography surveys all Herman Melville's major works and tells the compelling story of his unpredictable professional and personal life. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780238074
- ISBN
- 9781780238074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.92
€ 23.99
€ 20.92
Paperback. The life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) is the quintessential writer's biography great works arising from a life of despair, poverty, alcoholism, and a mysterious solitary death. This title argues that Poe's work anticipated many of the directions Western thought would take in the century to come. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 28 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861895158
- ISBN
- 9781861895158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.63
€ 30.63
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474886
- ISBN
- 9781611474886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.29
€ 149.29
Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 35. Weight in Grams: 800. A Life Raised High. 480 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 35. Weight: 796.
- Publisher
- Pomona
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904590231
- ISBN
- 9781904590231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.61
€ 26.99
€ 23.61
Paperback. From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BK; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349008530
- ISBN
- 9780349008530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23