Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
paperback. Translator(s): Harss, Marina. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590174449
- ISBN
- 9781590174449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.54
€ 15.99
€ 14.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 150 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838205892
- ISBN
- 9783838205892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.20
€ 38.99
€ 28.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Schocken
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780805212587
- ISBN
- 9780805212587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083562
- ISBN
- 9781847083562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.97
€ 17.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. The second part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083579
- ISBN
- 9781847083579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. The third part of the Nobel Prize Winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083555
- ISBN
- 9781847083555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Robert Louis Stevenson loved to conjure up a dashing, romantic lineage for himself, dreaming that he was descended from the colourful outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. This work gives a concise account of his life - his family background, childhood and adolescence in a Calvinist, hard-working household in Scotland, and his final years in the South Seas. Num Pages: 114 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- NMSE - Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905267217
- ISBN
- 9781905267217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.28
€ 8.28
Hardcover. In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors. Editor(s): Pite, Ralph; Hubbard, Tom; Rooksby, Rikky. Series: Lives of Victorian Literary Figures. Num Pages: 1360 pages, Illustrations, ports, facsims. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 2494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781851969050
- ISBN
- 9781851969050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 623.54
€ 623.54
Hardback. This new biography of Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle. Num Pages: 480 pages, 20 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780768205
- ISBN
- 9781780768205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.20€ 65.07
€ 71.20
€ 65.07
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392783
- ISBN
- 9780141392783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. One of France's most high-profile writers and a Nobel Prize-winner, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during his career, which was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. Edward J. Hughes unravels the life of a complex personality whose work and stance were the subjects of intense interest and scrutiny. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 28 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780234939
- ISBN
- 9781780234939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.24
€ 17.99
€ 14.24
Paperback. I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571269440
- ISBN
- 9780571269440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.85
€ 17.99
€ 12.85
Paperback. Borderlines is a memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people. Num Pages: 315 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVG; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893996335
- ISBN
- 9781893996335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.36
€ 19.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Newton, Michael. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539116
- ISBN
- 9780199539116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. Award-winning novelist talks about family, culture, and place with disarming honesty and wry irony. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888645593
- ISBN
- 9780888645593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.78
€ 13.99
€ 11.78
Paperback. Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin's passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823276837
- ISBN
- 9780823276837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374534912
- ISBN
- 9780374534912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.32
€ 23.99
€ 20.32
Hardback. Documents the literary friendship between the English novelist EM Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet CP Cavafy. This book includes extant letters, the earliest published Cavafy translations, facsimiles of Cavafy's authorial revisions, poems by EM Forster, archival photographs, and related letters. Editor(s): Jeffreys, Peter. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774162572
- ISBN
- 9789774162572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.76
€ 32.76
Paperback. Fascinating insight into the tempestuous life of one of our great poets through his letters, including those to the two great loves of his life. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227252
- ISBN
- 9781780227252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. Duncan Wu's fascinating portrait of William Hazlitt - the first fully-researched biography, and the first to cover Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era. Num Pages: 592 pages, frontispiece, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1042.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199588848
- ISBN
- 9780199588848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61