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Biography: literary

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300216158
ISBN
9780300216158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.40

Paperback. A title that deals with questions such as: Was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? Translator(s): Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780099539759
ISBN
9780099539759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A title that deals with questions such as: Was the enchanted camera a source of inspiration for their father? Did it represent the power of art itself? Was it the eye of God? Translator(s): Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160. 8vo. Good clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KEX0276304
ISBN
9780099539759
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers an account of the author's modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 121 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507598
ISBN
9780099507598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.84

Hardback. A lively and readable literary biography of a remarkable personality who was a central member of the Inklings, this book rediscovers the dramatic and contradictory life of a brilliant writer and publisher from a poor London background who became a ground-breaking theologian, fantasy novelist and poet. Num Pages: 544 pages, 16-page plates section. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 48. Weight in Grams: 942.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199284153
ISBN
9780199284153
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.54

Hardback. We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. Num Pages: 336 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636696
ISBN
9780745636696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.75

Hardback. Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the great Russian Jewish author since the opening of Soviet archives. Editor(s): Freidin, Gregory. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804759038
ISBN
9780804759038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seven Stories Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609804305
ISBN
9781609804305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.81

Paperback. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172469
ISBN
9781590172469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.19

Paperback. Presents an account of the author's childhood in Czernowitz, Ukraine. This title portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141192734
ISBN
9780141192734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. "John Betjeman". Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 190 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132. New.
Publisher
Shire Publications
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780747810513
ISBN
9780747810513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.89

Paperback. When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847080547
ISBN
9781847080547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.22

Paperback. When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847080554
ISBN
9781847080554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.08

Paperback. The final volume of the trilogy that began with "The Smoking Diaries", this diary reflects Simon Gray's determination to give up smoking. Num Pages: 312 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGL; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847080721
ISBN
9781847080721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 288. 416 pages. Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Dimension: 195 x 132 x 28. Weight: 286.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2008th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747593003
ISBN
9780747593003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.59

Paperback. The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 51. Weight in Grams: 914. A Life. 688 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. The first comprehensive biography of the author of One Hundred Years Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera - the most popular international novelist of the last fifty years. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 51. Weight: 900.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747596141
ISBN
9780747596141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783781164
ISBN
9781783781164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

hardcover. A major literary event: the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. Num Pages: 624 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1000.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liveright United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780871404107
ISBN
9780871404107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.59

Paperback. George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. This title presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. Editor(s): Davison, Peter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191546
ISBN
9780141191546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184388
ISBN
9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

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