Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
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€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, the author attempts to fill the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels, and describes her sixty-three years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. Series: Missouri Biography S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826216489
- ISBN
- 9780826216489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.62
€ 25.99
€ 25.62
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552750
- ISBN
- 9780813552750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.77
€ 40.99
€ 38.77
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
€ 34.51
€ 34.51
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
€ 16.99€ 14.16
€ 16.99
€ 14.16
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
€ 14.99€ 11.34
€ 14.99
€ 11.34
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
€ 21.99€ 16.26
€ 21.99
€ 16.26
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
€ 56.90€ 40.91
€ 56.90
€ 40.91
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 second of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work. Num Pages: 824 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white plates. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 824
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539925
- ISBN
- 9780199539925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.51
€ 60.51
Hardcover. The first biography of the man who launched the self-help phenomenon. Based on contemporary sources, many previously unexamined. Addresses timeless questions - of progress and freedom, success and failure, work and happiness, the individual and the state. A story rich in present-day relevance - topical and controversial. Num Pages: 336 pages, yes. BIC Classification: BGL; JFFM; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- Shepheard-Walwyn
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856835124
- ISBN
- 9780856835124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.54
€ 25.99
€ 23.54
Paperback. In a period of great letter-writing, Keats' letters are outstanding. They begin in summer 1816, as he approached his twenty-first birthday, and were written over the next four years until his early death. This edition includes an introduction and notes, as well as a map of Keats' Scottish walking tour and reproductions of his letters. Editor(s): Barnard, John. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192796
- ISBN
- 9780141192796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.34
€ 17.34
Paperback. Keats's letters are 'the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet' (T. S. Eliot). This new edition revises and updates Robert Gittings's selection and includes 170 letters, a new introduction and notes, list of correspondents and full index Editor(s): Gittings, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Critical ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555734
- ISBN
- 9780199555734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.11
€ 14.11
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
€ 26.99€ 19.29
€ 26.99
€ 19.29
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€ 19.51
€ 20.99
€ 19.51
Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson, an account of the "Susan Sontag" of nineteenth-century America. Num Pages: 528 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393068054
- ISBN
- 9780393068054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.37
€ 33.99
€ 32.37
Paperback. "Psychologically rich.. Matteson's book restores the heroism of [Fuller's] life and work."-The New Yorker Num Pages: 528 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 510
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393343595
- ISBN
- 9780393343595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.97
€ 19.99
€ 19.97
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
€ 14.99€ 11.26
€ 14.99
€ 11.26
Paperback. The memoir of the man who "has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."--Alice Munro Series: Biblioasis Renditions Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Biblioasis Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927428955
- ISBN
- 9781927428955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.84
€ 18.84
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
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
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€ 14.20
€ 16.99
€ 14.20