Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Paperback. A beautifully written and produced celebration of the life of Beatrix Potter, one of the nation's best-loved authors. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 x 8pp colour illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784975647
- ISBN
- 9781784975647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.79
€ 13.99
€ 10.79
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803237698
- ISBN
- 9780803237698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. One of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P G Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. In this title, his letters provide an illuminating biographical accompaniment to legendary comic creations such as Jeeves, Wooster, Psmith and the Empress of Blandings. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- n/a
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099514794
- ISBN
- 9780099514794
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.74
€ 26.99
€ 18.74
Hardcover. This crisply written biography traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood, through her tumultuous relationship with Dylan Thomas, to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C. P. Snow. Hers was a rich, courageous, and politically committed writing life. Num Pages: 352 pages, 22 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198729617
- ISBN
- 9780198729617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.04
€ 79.04
Hardcover. This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Pollard access to previously unexamined diaries, letters and much other material, illuminating their mother's eventful and often entertaining life. Pamela Hansford Johnson's achievements were all the more Num Pages: 512 pages, photos, bibliography and index. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1002.
- Publisher
- Shepheard-Walwyn
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856832987
- ISBN
- 9780856832987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.82
€ 33.99
€ 28.82
Hardcover. Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after WWI. Placing him among Progressives such as Charles Beard, Randolph Bourne, and Thorstein Veblen, David Brown reveals Fitzgerald as a writer with an encompassing historical imagination. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504820
- ISBN
- 9780674504820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.48
€ 33.99
€ 28.48
Paperback. Adam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in Paris Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847243928
- ISBN
- 9781847243928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGL; HRAB; HRCM; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691652450
- ISBN
- 9780691652450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 221.33
€ 221.33
Paperback. Offers an account of the author's modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 121 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099507598
- ISBN
- 9780099507598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.63
€ 21.99
€ 15.63
Paperback. Penelope Fitzgerald published her first book aged sixty. She went on to become one of the greatest of English novelists. Her remarkable life spans most of the 20th century, and moves from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099546597
- ISBN
- 9780099546597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. In this book, the author introduces the man himself, his friends and acquaintances - including Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Charles II and John Evelyn - who Pepys wrote about with such humour and abandon. Series: NPG Companions. Num Pages: 120 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; BGH; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- National Portrait Gallery Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855145856
- ISBN
- 9781855145856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.29
€ 21.99
€ 20.29
Paperback. This biography offers a sympathetic and nuanced view of Shelley's tumultuous life, personality, and poetry. Num Pages: 736 pages, 39, 39 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801888618
- ISBN
- 9780801888618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.09
€ 71.09
Hardcover. Characteristically modest and lightly humorous in tone, this title includes letters that are nevertheless revealing of a dedicated, practical and scrupulous craftsman whose most brilliant inspirations were grounded in decades of unremitting hard work. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591919
- ISBN
- 9781841591919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.07
€ 19.99
€ 15.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Process United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780976082200
- ISBN
- 9780976082200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.89
€ 18.99
€ 18.89
Hardcover. Biography of Oxford Classics don who led intriguing life. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 223 x 37. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908493989
- ISBN
- 9781908493989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.18
€ 26.99
€ 25.18
Paperback. Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. This title consists of nearly two thousand letters, which chronicle various aspects of Larkin's life and the convolutions of their relationship. Editor(s): Thwaite, Anthony. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571239108
- ISBN
- 9780571239108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.66
€ 25.99
€ 17.66
Paperback. Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy,autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhoodand adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648163
- ISBN
- 9780745648163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.24
€ 22.24
Hardback. Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy,autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhoodand adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745648156
- ISBN
- 9780745648156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.17
€ 24.17
Hardcover. Salvador Novo (1904-1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. This book portrays the codes, intrigues, and dynamics of what, decades later, would be called "a gay ghetto." Translator(s): Feitlowitz, Marguerite. Series: Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series. Num Pages: 210 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; BGLA; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705418
- ISBN
- 9780292705418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.07
€ 38.07
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, 16-pp color insert. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3D; BGH; BGL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Shokai Inc Japan
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Hardcover with Jacket
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9784805311080
- ISBN
- 9784805311080
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.14
€ 15.99
€ 15.14