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Biography: literary
Hardcover. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745663272
- ISBN
- 9780745663272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Translator(s): Mitchell, Mike (Lecturer in German, University of Stirling). Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 212 x 32. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423702
- ISBN
- 9780857423702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.75
€ 27.99
€ 22.75
Paperback. Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. This biography is based on numerous interviews with people who knew Barea. It revisits Barea's writing qualities and deficiencies in the context of stimulating intersections of literature and politics, and of Spain and England. Num Pages: 243 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADS; BGL; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194697
- ISBN
- 9781845194697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 258 x 24. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Number of pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141978826
- ISBN
- 9780141978826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.49
€ 25.99
€ 19.49
paperback. In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. This book offers a fresh perspective on his extraordinary life and times. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781251911
- ISBN
- 9781781251911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. A. N. Wilson's Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 44. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782390916
- ISBN
- 9781782390916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.27
€ 46.99
€ 33.27
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
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072831
- ISBN
- 9780674072831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Hardback. Because Thomas Hardy's poetry and fiction are so closely associated with Wessex, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner, moving between country and capital throughout his life. This self-division, Mark Ford says, can be traced not only in works explicitly set in London but in his most regionally circumscribed novels. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 halftones, 9 maps. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 255 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674737891
- ISBN
- 9780674737891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241963289
- ISBN
- 9780241963289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.59
€ 15.99
€ 12.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474886
- ISBN
- 9781611474886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.89
€ 154.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408842416
- ISBN
- 9781408842416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Translator(s): Proctor, Minna. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; FA; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 114. .
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811226875
- ISBN
- 9780811226875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.29
€ 14.29
Hardback. From 1837 to 1861, Henry D Thoreau kept a "Journal" that would become the principal imaginative work of his career. This book presents Thoreau's "Journal". Editor(s): Simmons, Nancy Craig; Thomas, Ron. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 544 pages, 51 line illus. 5 x 8. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691065403
- ISBN
- 9780691065403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.56€ 80.25
€ 104.56
€ 80.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages, 12 pages b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; APFD; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853039068
- ISBN
- 9780853039068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.38
€ 46.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571221608
- ISBN
- 9780571221608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2008 BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 39. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Edition
- Reprints
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330440097
- ISBN
- 9780330440097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Masterly biography of Leigh Hunt - publisher, poet, critic and Republican, and the mentor of Keats and Shelley Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349117706
- ISBN
- 9780349117706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Hardback. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, B&W Photos: 14,. BIC Classification: 2GJ; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164887
- ISBN
- 9780231164887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.17€ 64.47
€ 83.17
€ 64.47
Hardback. Examines Charlotte Armstrong's contribution to the suspense genre through an exploration of her childhood diaries, adult correspondence, published and cinematic works, reviews of those works, and the recollections of her agent, children, and grand children. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911229
- ISBN
- 9781575911229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.70
€ 127.70
Paperback. From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BK; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349008530
- ISBN
- 9780349008530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
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
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KRA0006680
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KKD0009969
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95