Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Paperback. Focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, the author attempts to fill the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels, and describes her sixty-three years of living in Mansfield, Missouri. Series: Missouri Biography S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826216489
- ISBN
- 9780826216489
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.61
€ 29.99
€ 26.61
Hardback. The story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803230118
- ISBN
- 9780803230118
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.12
€ 27.99
€ 25.12
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780990895893
- ISBN
- 9780990895893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.68
€ 142.68
hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AJB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807068809
- ISBN
- 9780807068809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.41
€ 48.99
€ 38.41
paperback. How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099485155
- ISBN
- 9780099485155
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
paperback. No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 624.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844139309
- ISBN
- 9781844139309
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.68
€ 20.99
€ 16.68
paperback. This is an absorbing account of the life and work of one of Russia's most inventive and exuberant novelists and playwrights. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 black and white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780237411
- ISBN
- 9781780237411
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.19
€ 14.99
€ 13.19
Hardcover. Recaptures a vanished moment of cultural history. Editor(s): Dollenmayer, David B. Translator(s): Dollenmayer, David B. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 3JJ; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631781
- ISBN
- 9780815631781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.56
€ 38.56
Hardcover. Sets out to explore the true character and creative achievements of the author's great-grandfather Jacob Gordin, playwright extraordinaire and icon of the Yiddish stage. Shedding light on Gordin and his world, this work describes the commune he founded and led in Russia, his meteoric rise among Jewish New York's literati, and more. Num Pages: 248 pages, 9 black-&-white photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ACY; BGL; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815608844
- ISBN
- 9780815608844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.57
€ 27.99
€ 26.57
Hardcover. Katherine Anne Porter revealed only scant facts about her life, and often gave conflicting accounts. Here, the author finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil, fuelled by multiple marriages, and babies lost to miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 871.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578067770
- ISBN
- 9781578067770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.97
€ 39.97
Hardcover. Eva Jean Wrather (1908-2001) spent most of her adult lifetime writing a biography of Alexander Campbell, the only Protestant denomination to spring from American soil. Shortly before Wrather's death, the manuscript totaled 800,000 words or 3,254 pages. This title includes Campbell's lifetime of theological doctrine and literary writing. Editor(s): Cummins, D. Duane. Num Pages: 308 pages, 48 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; HRCC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875654003
- ISBN
- 9780875654003
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.53
€ 27.99
€ 26.53
Paperback. Editor(s): Peterson, Linda (Yale University Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University, Connecticut Yale University Yale University Yale University, Connecticut). Series: Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies. Num Pages: 744 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGA; BGHA; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 759.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 741
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551115559
- ISBN
- 9781551115559
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.78
€ 42.99
€ 38.78
Hardcover. Series: Sarh Mills Hodge Fund Publications. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: AGB; BGFA; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330556
- ISBN
- 9780820330556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.40
€ 52.40
Paperback. Takes a wry look at middle-class sexual mores and a witty appreciation of the art of the hack novel. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820330136
- ISBN
- 9780820330136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.25
€ 25.99
€ 24.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DSB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813061320
- ISBN
- 9780813061320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.97
€ 39.97
paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 10.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2024
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd. United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910745885
- ISBN
- 9781910745885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.77
€ 21.99
€ 17.77
A Glorious and Terrible Life With You: Selected Correspondence of Nort...
Burgess, Margaret. Ed(S): Burgess, Margaret
hardcover. Lavishly illustrated, this new edition includes family photographs and original graphics by both Helen Kemp and her father, S.H.F. Kemp, mostly dating from his own student days at the University of Toronto. Editor(s): Burgess, Margaret. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 804.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802097651
- ISBN
- 9780802097651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.04
€ 95.04
paperback. Lavishly illustrated, this new edition includes family photographs and original graphics by both Helen Kemp and her father, S.H.F. Kemp, mostly dating from his own student days at the University of Toronto. Editor(s): Burgess, Margaret. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802094766
- ISBN
- 9780802094766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 44.30
€ 48.99
€ 44.30
Paperback. A compilation of Irving Howe's interviews during the last fifteen years of his life. It presents what could be viewed as the sequel to Howe's intellectual autobiography, "A Margin of Hope". Editor(s): Goffman, Ethan; Rodden, John. Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535511
- ISBN
- 9781557535511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.97
€ 46.97
A biography that situates Lady Mary Wroth in her family and court context, emphasizing the growth of the writer's mind in the sections on her childhood and youth, with a focus on her learned aunt, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, as literary mentor, and on her Continental connections, Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange. Num Pages: 430 pages, Includes 28 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 247 x 182 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 430
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754660538
- ISBN
- 9780754660538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 175.17
€ 175.17
Hardcover. Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication history of his major works. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,New edition,2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452382
- ISBN
- 9781137452382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. Known as the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge's manuscripts, letters, and other writings reveal an original thinker in dialogue with major literary and cultural figures of nineteenth-century England. Here, her writings on beauty, education, and faith uncover aspects of Romantic and Victorian literature, philosophy, and theology. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324979
- ISBN
- 9781137324979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.17
€ 67.17
Hardcover. With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 216 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137033055
- ISBN
- 9781137033055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his love for Fanny Brawne, his coterie of literary figures and his tragic early death. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572638
- ISBN
- 9780230572638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67