Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Hardcover. In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations. Editor(s): DePastino, Todd. Series: Subterranean Lives Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 48 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Edition
- None ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813538068
- ISBN
- 9780813538068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.04
€ 161.04
Hardback. Editor(s): Terhune, Alfred McKinley; Terhune, Annabelle Burdick. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643472
- ISBN
- 9780691643472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 288.10€ 214.85
€ 288.10
€ 214.85
Hardcover. After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon is a portrait of an artistic life in motion and stirring reflection on the capacity of great poetry to fashion something lasting of our deepest fears and insecurities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gill & Macmillan Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780717164417
- ISBN
- 9780717164417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.00€ 25.77
€ 40.00
€ 25.77
A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children's linguistic creativity and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. Editor(s): Erlich, Victor. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 658 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- abridged ed
- Number of pages
- 658
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300106114
- ISBN
- 9780300106114
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.76€ 58.13
€ 79.76
€ 58.13
Hardcover. Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). This book assesses the life and legacy of this important voice from mid twentieth century Central Europe. Num Pages: 284 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Academica Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933146720
- ISBN
- 9781933146720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.57
€ 34.57
Hardback. Presents in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language Editor(s): Zacharias, Greg W.; Walker, Pierre A. Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 photographs, 1 figure, 6 family trees, biographical register, symbol and abbreviations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 169 x 30. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803234574
- ISBN
- 9780803234574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.84
€ 101.84
paperback. The pen of W. H. Davies, super-tramp and writer, reveals a fascinating picture of a vast, bustling continent intent on its own affairs and of a Britain on the cusp of change between old certainties and an uneasy future. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908946072
- ISBN
- 9781908946072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.59
€ 12.99
€ 9.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJP; APB; BGL; FA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Edition
- 1st. Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHN0000661
- ISBN
- 9780340898451
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. This is the first book to track Ernest Hemingway's progress as a spy in Asia during the war, defining his duties as he saw fit. Author Peter Moreira follows Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn as they seek stories to file - and try to adapt to each other's strong egos - in dangerous, uncomfortable, exotic places in the throes of war. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; BGL; HBJF; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574888829
- ISBN
- 9781574888829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.83
€ 21.99
€ 20.83
Paperback. Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. The author maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her self-exile in Europe. Num Pages: 704 pages, includes two 8 page black & white photo inserts. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312363819
- ISBN
- 9780312363819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.04
€ 28.04
Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John Matteson, an account of the "Susan Sontag" of nineteenth-century America. Num Pages: 528 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393068054
- ISBN
- 9780393068054
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.87
€ 35.99
€ 33.87
Paperback. "Psychologically rich.. Matteson's book restores the heroism of [Fuller's] life and work."-The New Yorker Num Pages: 528 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 510
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393343595
- ISBN
- 9780393343595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.84
€ 21.99
€ 20.84
Hardcover. Lowry's writing often transports readers into other worlds. Now, we have the rare opportunity to travel into a real world that is her own - her life. Num Pages: 272 pages, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 163 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- HMH Books for Young Readers
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780544807969
- ISBN
- 9780544807969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.18
€ 21.18
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718892241
- ISBN
- 9780718892241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718892258
- ISBN
- 9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. In this new memoir, Anne Edwards-bestselling author of biographies on Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, and Ronald Reagan-turns the spotlight on herself, chronicling her 20-year exile from the United States from the 1950s until the early 1970s. Num Pages: 320 pages, 42 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; BGL; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810881990
- ISBN
- 9780810881990
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.56
€ 32.99
€ 29.56
In 1907, the author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856-1935) published "Aunt Jane of Kentucky", a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity. This work tells the story of this remarkable Kentucky woman. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124704
- ISBN
- 9780813124704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.56
€ 49.56
Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813136882
- ISBN
- 9780813136882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.08
€ 41.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages, 12 pages b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; APFD; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853039068
- ISBN
- 9780853039068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.28
€ 46.28
Paperback. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BGL; DSC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898485
- ISBN
- 9780859898485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.45
€ 43.45