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Biography: literary
Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066960
- ISBN
- 9780674066960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.51
€ 30.99
€ 26.51
Paperback. When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He also reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; HPX; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 8. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872601
- ISBN
- 9781784872601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.92
€ 7.92
Hardback. A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. This title collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world - children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, con artists, and even a former president. Editor(s): Rasmussen, R. Kent. Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain. Num Pages: 316 pages, 25 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261341
- ISBN
- 9780520261341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.68
€ 33.99
€ 24.68
Paperback. Features Dodie Smith, who was a playwright and novelist, and the author of various classics such as: The Hundred and One Dalmations, and I Capture the Castle. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845951733
- ISBN
- 9781845951733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.91
€ 20.99
€ 16.91
Hardcover. Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves. Editor(s): Williams, John A.; Williams, Lori. Series: African American Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Edition
- Adapted ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814333556
- ISBN
- 9780814333556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.81
€ 39.81
Hardcover. Artist and poet David Jones fought in the Somme, Passchendaele and Ypres, surviving to write and paint some of the greatest modernist works on war. Now, thanks to Dilworth's painstaking research, Jones's story can be told in detail.. Num Pages: 220 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907587245
- ISBN
- 9781907587245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.46
€ 19.99
€ 18.46
Paperback. David Astor is a great exception to the rule. His early life was far from idyllic. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life, and he became a lost soul for much of the Thirties but when he took the Observer on in 1948 he converted a staid Sunday paper into essential reading. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; KNTJ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099552123
- ISBN
- 9780099552123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road Editor(s): Sisman, Adam. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 3JJH; BGL; BJ; HBWQ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473622494
- ISBN
- 9781473622494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.53
€ 17.99
€ 13.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628726107
- ISBN
- 9781628726107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.26
€ 18.99
€ 17.26
Hardback. Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett's family and Hellman's heir, to reexamine his life and works. Num Pages: 264 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 8 x 5 x 140. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611457841
- ISBN
- 9781611457841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.48
€ 25.99
€ 21.48
Paperback. A compilation of letters sent by Daphne du Maurier to her close friend Oriel Malet with further text by Oriel Malet linking and contextualizing the letters. Editor(s): Malet, Oriel. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- M. Evans & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590774564
- ISBN
- 9781590774564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.01
€ 21.01
Paperback. Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; 3JJ; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007347094
- ISBN
- 9780007347094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.02
€ 18.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. For over seven centuries, Dante and his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, have held a special place in Western culture. The poem is at once a vivid journey through hell to heaven, a poignant love story, and a picture of humanity's relationship to God. It is so richly imaginative that a first reading can be bewildering. Series: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion. Num Pages: 200 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 186 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130523
- ISBN
- 9781405130523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.87
€ 34.87
Paperback. A. N. Wilson is one of the most popular and bestselling historians and biographers writing in Britain today and in Dante In Love he brings to life one of the western canon's most enigmatic figures. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848879508
- ISBN
- 9781848879508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470591338
- ISBN
- 9780470591338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.53
€ 30.99
€ 26.53
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
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904634300
- ISBN
- 9781904634300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.82
€ 26.99
€ 23.82
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
€ 45.99€ 33.45
€ 45.99
€ 33.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.39
€ 17.99
€ 14.39
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
€ 78.69
€ 78.69
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€ 20.63
€ 24.99
€ 20.63
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€ 29.74
€ 34.99
€ 29.74
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€ 14.95
€ 18.99
€ 14.95