×


 x 

Shopping cart

Biography: literary

Results 769 - 792 of 854

Biography: literary

Paperback. In John Berger, a concise yet detailed study of Berger's life and work, Andy Merrifield sheds light on Berger the man, the artist, and the concerned citizen. Merrifield creates a reader-friendly, freewheeling narrative, which gives fascinating insight into one of the most influential thinkers of our times. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGF; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861899040
ISBN
9781861899040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.91

Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847675330
ISBN
9781847675330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.46

Hardback. Deals with Coetzee's origins, early years, and first writings. This book corrects many of the misconceptions about Coetzee, and that illuminates the genesis and implications of his novels. It is suitable for everybody concerned with Coetzee's life and work. Translator(s): Heyns, Michiel. Num Pages: 712 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 155 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1248.
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922070081
ISBN
9781922070081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 25.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907893506
ISBN
9781907893506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Written by Scott Moncrieff's great-great-niece, Jean Findlay, with exclusive access to the family archive, this book presents a portrait of a man hurled into war, through an era when the world was changing fast and forever, who brought us the greatest epic of time and memory that has ever been written. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507086
ISBN
9780099507086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 35 x 144 x 225. Weight in Grams: 597. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear. Hardcover, dustjacket in good condition.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KRF0008871
ISBN
9780340897904
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the author's own letters, this book offers information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts. Editor(s): Noble, Andrew; Hogg, Patrick Scott. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 1120 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 51. Weight in Grams: 744. 1120 pages. Editor(s): Noble, Andrew; Hogg, Patrick Scott. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the author's own letters, this book offers information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 51. Weight: 888.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
1120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841953809
ISBN
9781841953809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 22.02

Paperback. BIC Classification: BGLA; DNF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476723426
ISBN
9781476723426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.94

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

Paperback. Series: Revolutionary Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745334615
ISBN
9780745334615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.16

Paperback. Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
9780099556091
ISBN
9780099556091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.20

Hardback. Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T S Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to the torture of his eighteen-year marriage. He breaks free from September 1932 by becoming Norton Lecturer at Harvard. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
960
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571316342
ISBN
9780571316342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.89
€ 39.65

Paperback. Adam Watt's biography considers Proust's early years of personal and aesthetic experiment, the growth of his masterwork A la recherche du temps perdu and his personal decline due to ill-health. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 black and white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780230948
ISBN
9781780230948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.55

Hardcover. Features a collection of facts and insights into the life and times of the great novelist and the attitudes and customs that shaped both her and her work. This title looks at the facts of author's life and times, as well as stories about her novels, including: the marriage proposal that Austen accepted, only to change her mind, and more. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135. .
Publisher
Andre Deutsch
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780233005140
ISBN
9780233005140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.00

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099466673
ISBN
9780099466673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

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

Hardback. The first biography of Katherine Mansfield for a quarter of a century and the first to take advantage of the complete transcriptions of the diaries and letters of both Katherine Mansfield and her editor husband John Middleton Murry. Num Pages: 528 pages, 55 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 954.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643547
ISBN
9780748643547
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 45.01

Paperback. The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; BGH; BGLA; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212389
ISBN
9780300212389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.43

Paperback. Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser - August Strindberg was all these. This biography describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 colour + 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300198065
ISBN
9780300198065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, 13 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300212341
ISBN
9780300212341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241243671
ISBN
9780241243671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. A fascinating new biography of the creator of the Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth. Num Pages: 240 pages, Colour photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Lion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745955148
ISBN
9780745955148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.92

Paperback. A teenage revolutionary's gripping, darkly comic account of life, love and fighting for freedom in Latin America in the 1980s Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; BGLA; BM; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846272028
ISBN
9781846272028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.93

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
€ 10.73

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!