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Biography: literary

Paperback. An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Bronte sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393352702
ISBN
9780393352702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Editor(s): Rippey, Theodore F. Series: Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrubuch. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APT; BGL; DD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985195618
ISBN
9780985195618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.80

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Archipelago Books United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935744603
ISBN
9781935744603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.94

Paperback. When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. In this memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, he describes his childhood, and his painful apprenticeship to the trade of dramatist. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571294343
ISBN
9780571294343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Aimed at presenting the known and, especially, the unknown Mark Twain, this book covers his works as well as the rambling and often wildly psyche and contradictory life. It presents his unforgettable characters - Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Pudd'nhead Wilson and many others. It is suitable for general readers, students, and scholars. Series: Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370. Series: Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions. 224 pages, Illustrations, maps. Aimed at presenting the known and, especially, the unknown Mark Twain, this book covers his works as well as the rambling and often wildly psyche and contradictory life. It presents his unforgettable characters - Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Pudd'nhead Wilson and many others. It is suitable for general readers, students, and scholars. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 17. Weight: 370.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826418135
ISBN
9780826418135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.20

paperback. No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9781844139309
ISBN
9781844139309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.68

paperback. The pen of W. H. Davies, super-tramp and writer, reveals a fascinating picture of a vast, bustling continent intent on its own affairs and of a Britain on the cusp of change between old certainties and an uneasy future. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781908946072
ISBN
9781908946072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.59

Hardback. A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising. Num Pages: 96 pages, 4-color illustrations throughout; two fold-out spreads. BIC Classification: BGF; BGL; BK; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 191 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632866554
ISBN
9781632866554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Hardback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823271450
ISBN
9780823271450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 black & white line drawings, 40 black & white photographs (16pp). BIC Classification: BGL; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Golden Duck (UK) Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781899262014
ISBN
9781899262014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. BIC Classification: BGA; BGLA; DNF; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Beacon Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807001912
ISBN
9780807001912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226416953
ISBN
9780226416953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. The wonderful biography of Winifred Holtby and her friendship with Vera Brittain, now reissued as a Virago Modern Classic Series: VMC. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844088706
ISBN
9781844088706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.53

Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DNF; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474862
ISBN
9781611474862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

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

Paperback. How was Ted Hughes's poetry influenced by Sylvia Plath? What is the importance of his early life on the Yorkshire moors with his elder brother, a life he called Paradise? How did writing Birthday Letters affect his career? This close study of Hughes's poetic development, now available in paperback, answers all these questions and more. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
2006th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580978
ISBN
9780230580978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.22

Paperback. Playwright, novelist, polyglot, pianist, trickster Tomson Highway's Henry Kreisel Lecture on the importance of multilingualism. Illustrator(s): Sokaymoh Frederik, Christine. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 96.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120417
ISBN
9781772120417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.94

Paperback. .
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241964439
ISBN
9780241964439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.91

Paperback. One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular schoolteacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 193.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571278695
ISBN
9780571278695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.57

Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810857575
ISBN
9780810857575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.49

Paperback. Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. This title publishes the entire transcript of Sontag's conversation. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300199024
ISBN
9780300199024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.17

Paperback. Villa Diodati. 1816. In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 pages of black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847678720
ISBN
9781847678720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

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