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Biography: literary
Paperback. Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human. Translator(s): Orban, Clara. Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780823268573
- ISBN
- 9780823268573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.33
€ 24.33
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300218008
- ISBN
- 9780300218008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Num Pages: 392 pages, 51 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219807
- ISBN
- 9780300219807
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.54
€ 17.99
€ 14.54
Paperback. I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571269440
- ISBN
- 9780571269440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.79
€ 17.99
€ 14.79
Hardback. We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. Num Pages: 336 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636696
- ISBN
- 9780745636696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. Translator(s): Wilson, Jason. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423986
- ISBN
- 9780857423986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.89
€ 24.99
€ 20.89
Hardcover. "Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!"?Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Num Pages: 432 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393245097
- ISBN
- 9780393245097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.06
€ 34.99
€ 30.06
Paperback. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive introduction and notes. Editor(s): Morrison, Robert. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199600618
- ISBN
- 9780199600618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Once upon a time, opium was easily available over chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and carried in waistcoat pocket. Paradise! So thought, the author, but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099528593
- ISBN
- 9780099528593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.19
€ 18.99
€ 15.19
Paperback. Translator(s): Scholar, Angela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGLA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540037
- ISBN
- 9780199540037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Presents in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language Editor(s): Zacharias, Greg W.; Walker, Pierre A. Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 photographs, 1 figure, 6 family trees, biographical register, symbol and abbreviations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 169 x 30. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803234574
- ISBN
- 9780803234574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.14
€ 104.14
Paperback. Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007487240
- ISBN
- 9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010131
- ISBN
- 9781847010131
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Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476884
- ISBN
- 9780801476884
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, and more. Num Pages: 1104 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555827
- ISBN
- 9780099555827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.57
€ 52.99
€ 37.57
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
€ 19.00€ 16.91
€ 19.00
€ 16.91
Paperback. A biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, "unnatural mother," international celebrity, and life-long controversialist. Num Pages: 568 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738897
- ISBN
- 9780804738897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463898
- ISBN
- 9781580463898
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.13
€ 37.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 155 x 233 x 36. Weight in Grams: 642. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Viking
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003075
- ISBN
- 9780670922277
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241963661
- ISBN
- 9780241963661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. A beautifully illustrated and informative tribute to England's most famous prose writer Num Pages: 96 pages, 200 black and white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 165 x 9. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781552780
- ISBN
- 9781781552780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.56
€ 19.99
€ 15.56
Paperback. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius. Num Pages: 576 pages, 24 pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 200 x 35. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141036939
- ISBN
- 9780141036939
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007445318
- ISBN
- 9780007445318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.24
€ 16.99
€ 12.24
Paperback. A biography of Dickens that uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, it explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. Num Pages: 720 pages, 40 black-&-white illustrations + 60 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 42. Weight in Grams: 830.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300170931
- ISBN
- 9780300170931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.79
€ 25.99
€ 19.79