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Biography: literary

Paperback. An introduction to Estonia's internationally best-known writer and intellectual. Editor(s): Salumets, Thomas. Num Pages: 256 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2FCD; BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773543720
ISBN
9780773543720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.81

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seven Stories Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609804305
ISBN
9781609804305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.14

Paperback. Lucy Ferriss's memoirs blends regional history, national history, and her personal history to create a narrative that follows two time lines. One is the story of her attending an exclusive ball. The other takes place thirty years later as she returns to St Louis to track down some of ACTION's - a militant civil rights group - principal activists. Num Pages: 168 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826216014
ISBN
9780826216014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.46

Paperback. This biography is the first to pay close attention to Havel's poetry and to place his later work as a writer of plays, essays, prison letters and presidential speeches in the context of his poetic beginnings. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 19. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780236650
ISBN
9781780236650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259775
ISBN
9780803259775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.85

Paperback. As the much anticipated film adaptation of Vera Brittain's First World War testimony "Testament of Youth" arrives in cinemas in 2014/15 this new book from Mark Bostridge (her biographer) tells the story of a remarkable woman and her extraordinary account of the destructive power of war. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BGH; BGL; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. Weight in Grams: 315.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Export/Airside
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472918574
ISBN
9781472918574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241243671
ISBN
9780241243671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 192 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848859043
ISBN
9781848859043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.00

Paperback. Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780236667
ISBN
9781780236667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.48

Hardcover. A chronological account takes the reader through the key events in the lives of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and their deaths. Num Pages: 192 pages, 250 colour photographs, 20 archive photographs, 20 artworks. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; BGL; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 288 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1260.
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909342132
ISBN
9781909342132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 27.09

Hardback. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153560
ISBN
9780231153560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.38

Paperback. Series: Dark Master Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Dedalus Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517697
ISBN
9781903517697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.28

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 458 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JF; BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
458
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644714
ISBN
9780691644714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 214.65

Paperback. Translator(s): Sartarelli, Stephen. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 101. .
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811222105
ISBN
9780811222105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Hulme, Peter. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press Jamaica
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9789766405113
ISBN
9789766405113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.03
€ 52.69

Paperback. A biography of W B Yeats, it covers the second half of Yeats' life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. It also weaves together his life and work. Num Pages: 832 pages, 32pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1306. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0024921
ISBN
9780192806093
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 48.00

Paperback. A modern poetry biography, based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). It reveals the essential kinship between two women artists. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557288257
ISBN
9781557288257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.70

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474415385
ISBN
9781474415385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.64

Paperback. Translator(s): Posten, Anne. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; AGB; BGF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811221399
ISBN
9780811221399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.54

Hardcover. A recreation of the 1920s and 1930s Salt Lake City from Wallace Stegner's youth based on archival photographs, quotations from Stegner's writings, and interpretive essays. Num Pages: 165 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874808988
ISBN
9780874808988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.54

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