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Biography: literary

Paperback. A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571310937
ISBN
9780571310937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. This title introduces Golding. Num Pages: 592 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571231645
ISBN
9780571231645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. Presents John Cheever's journals that reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529538
ISBN
9780099529538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. Peter of Blois pursued the life of a twelfth-century intellectual with vigor and passion tinged with anxiety. This book offers a study of Peter of Blois' life, thought, and writings. It explores how Peter brought classical, patristic, monastic, and scholastic traditions into an uneasy synthesis, and deployed them in letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; BGL; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813216768
ISBN
9780813216768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. Integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language. This book sets the poetry in the whole context of the poet's life and times, so that the reader can understand the frame of mind and kind of society which produced it. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141043401
ISBN
9780141043401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813552750
ISBN
9780813552750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Hardback. The first biography of this remarkable figure Num Pages: 384 pages, 77. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445638904
ISBN
9781445638904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.02

Paperback. A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 7. Weight in Grams: 78.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282839
ISBN
9780099282839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 b/w illus, 11 b/w plates (8pp), With index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007119530
ISBN
9780007119530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590171844
ISBN
9781590171844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.42

Hardback. Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1230.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571316328
ISBN
9780571316328
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.41
€ 41.39

Paperback. John Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white plates. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1097.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199539918
ISBN
9780199539918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.12

CD-Audio. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 285 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
CD
Publication date
2012
Edition
Unabridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241977545
ISBN
9780241977545
CD
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.46

Paperback. "An amazing story [told] with clarity and intelligence .. colorful and insightful."-Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 512 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393333596
ISBN
9780393333596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. A family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
V9780571228119
ISBN
9780571228119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119045304
ISBN
9781119045304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.05

Paperback. Praeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels across Europe with passion and intimacy. Editor(s): O'Gorman, Francis. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192802415
ISBN
9780192802415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.47

Hardcover. By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470655443
ISBN
9780470655443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.87

Paperback. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509822546
ISBN
9781509822546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008118211
ISBN
9780008118211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

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