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Biography: literary
Hardcover. Biography of the influential, lesser known member of the W.H. Auden circle. Peter Stansky tells the fascinating story of Edward Upward's conflict between art and life. At the same time he colourfully provides significant insight into English society during the twentieth century and explores the special nature of English radicalism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 35. Weight in Grams: 884.
- Publisher
- Enitharmon Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910392843
- ISBN
- 9781910392843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.96
€ 33.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. The final volume of the trilogy that began with "The Smoking Diaries", this diary reflects Simon Gray's determination to give up smoking. Num Pages: 312 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGL; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080721
- ISBN
- 9781847080721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 40 color + 56 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300223644
- ISBN
- 9780300223644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 17.11
€ 19.00
€ 17.11
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Quartet Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780704374348
- ISBN
- 9780704374348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 167 x 31. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072237
- ISBN
- 9780674072237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.66
€ 36.99
€ 30.66
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€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Critical
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691172491
- ISBN
- 9780691172491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.78
€ 43.99
€ 30.78
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910124512
- ISBN
- 9781910124512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.53
€ 11.99
€ 10.53
Paperback. The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired 'Doctor Zhivago'. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008156817
- ISBN
- 9780008156817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. Tells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241955307
- ISBN
- 9780241955307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL; DSYC; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219425
- ISBN
- 9780300219425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. Traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from an early age and who emerged, against all the odds, as one of the world's most respected writers. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 199.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099520481
- ISBN
- 9780099520481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of inward emigration . BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 204 x 24. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745669892
- ISBN
- 9780745669892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.03
€ 25.99
€ 21.03
Paperback. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK; HRGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561231
- ISBN
- 9780099561231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 584 pages, 49 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219715
- ISBN
- 9780300219715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.73
€ 25.99
€ 19.73
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. The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish birth or background who lived and worked in Britain between 1725 and the present day. It offers a stimulating and provocative introduction to the themes, preoccupations and narrative strategies of a diverse range of writers. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGL; DQ; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 175 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2009 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296367
- ISBN
- 9780230296367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.06
€ 65.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612194219
- ISBN
- 9781612194219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.35
€ 17.99
€ 14.35
Paperback. The enfants terribles of America at mid-20th Century challenged the sexual censors of their day while indulging in "bitchfests" for love, glory, and boyfriends. This book exposes their literary slugfests and offers an intimate look at their relationships with the glitterati - everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Jacqueline Kennedy and Marlon Brando. Num Pages: 528 pages, 130 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1168.
- Publisher
- Blood Moon Productions, Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936003372
- ISBN
- 9781936003372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.68
€ 27.68
Paperback. Series: Persephone Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 139 x 35. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906462109
- ISBN
- 9781906462109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.38
€ 18.99
€ 16.38