Biography: literary
Results 433 - 456 of 841
Biography: literary
Paperback. Sir Walter Scott's two-volume biography of the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), first published in 1826. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420. Fine copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KST0011482
- ISBN
- 9781108034180
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 6.75
€ 6.75
Paperback. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172469
- ISBN
- 9781590172469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
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
- 9780571228119
- ISBN
- 9780571228119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.59
€ 12.99
€ 10.59
A biography that situates Lady Mary Wroth in her family and court context, emphasizing the growth of the writer's mind in the sections on her childhood and youth, with a focus on her learned aunt, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, as literary mentor, and on her Continental connections, Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange. Num Pages: 430 pages, Includes 28 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 182 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754660538
- ISBN
- 9780754660538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 173.30
€ 173.30
Hardback. The first biography of one of contemporary British literature's most gifted and controversial authors. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 42. Weight in Grams: 826.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781849017015
- ISBN
- 9781849017015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 5.86
€ 5.86
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pallas Athene
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 580
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843680765
- ISBN
- 9781843680765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.88
€ 36.99
€ 27.88
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pallas Athene Arts
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843680963
- ISBN
- 9781843680963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.69
€ 26.99
€ 23.69
Paperback. Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. This biography, published on the centennial of the writer's death focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Num Pages: 520 pages, 37 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269859
- ISBN
- 9780520269859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.81
€ 33.99
€ 24.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, 30 color & 15 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 9. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764338816
- ISBN
- 9780764338816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.13
€ 18.99
€ 14.13
Paperback. After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain's last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. This title reveals that Twain ended his life as a frustrated writer plagued by paranoia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226336473
- ISBN
- 9780226336473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780544245617
- ISBN
- 9780544245617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.35
€ 26.99
€ 22.35
Editor(s): Calotychos, Vangelis. Num Pages: 258 pages, 12 black & white halftones, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHM; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474657
- ISBN
- 9781611474657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.32
€ 137.32
hardcover. Osip Mandelstam is the maverick Russian poet. This title carries the reader through Mandelstam's early life and education in prerevolutionary Petersburg and at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionary Russia. Translator(s): Retivov, Tatiana. Series: Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843284
- ISBN
- 9781934843284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 33.95
€ 34.99
€ 33.95
Paperback. A wry, tender memoir by one of the leading voices on transition and masculinity Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786890887
- ISBN
- 9781786890887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Agatha Christie's widower's recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha. Num Pages: 320 pages, 31 b/w plates (16pp), With index. BIC Classification: BGLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007331246
- ISBN
- 9780007331246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.38
€ 15.99
€ 11.38
Hardcover. Aims to acquaint Proust fans with Jeanne Weil Proust. This book captures the life and times of Proust's mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer's son to her lifelong worries about her son's sexuality, health problems, and talent. It explores the culture of fin de siecle France. Translator(s): Kaplan, Alice. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226056425
- ISBN
- 9780226056425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.96
€ 32.99
€ 25.96
Hardback. Series: Major Figures in Spanish and Latin American Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; BGL; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180824
- ISBN
- 9780300180824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.23€ 45.45
€ 58.23
€ 45.45
Paperback. From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, the author tells life as she has lived it. She acknowledges the passing years, from the generational shrinking of underwear to facing the fact that her knees make 'this noise like Rice Krispies' when she exercises. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099559030
- ISBN
- 9780099559030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. A retrospective of crucial periods in modernism via portraits of its literary lions by the co-founder of the Surrealist Movement. Translator(s): Bernheimer, Alan. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872867277
- ISBN
- 9780872867277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.59
€ 16.99
€ 14.59
Paperback. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; BGL; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089291
- ISBN
- 9781844089291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGLA; DSBH; DSK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 223 x 30. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295999364
- ISBN
- 9780295999364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.85
€ 117.85
Hardcover. Lowry's writing often transports readers into other worlds. Now, we have the rare opportunity to travel into a real world that is her own - her life. Num Pages: 272 pages, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- HMH Books for Young Readers
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780544807969
- ISBN
- 9780544807969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.60
€ 20.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 photoraphs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803290259
- ISBN
- 9780803290259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
Paperback. Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal presents a record of adventures ranging from his recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first amusingly bruising meeting with Samuel Johnson, to whom Boswell would later become both friend and biographer. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; BGLA; BJ; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140436501
- ISBN
- 9780140436501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.04
€ 20.99
€ 19.04