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  • Conrad Under Familial Eyes
    Halina Carroll / Halina Carroll-Najder
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    79,83 €

  • Return to Yesterday
    Ford Madox Ford
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    21,34 €

  • Count No ’Count
    Ben Wasson / Hicks Collins
    Coming home to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1918 after a stint in the Royal Flying Corps, young William Faulkner was arty and dandified. He sometimes was seen in his airman’s uniform, and he affected English manners. His pose amused some of his townsmen, and joking behind his back, they called him “The Count” and “Count No ’Count.”During this period Ben Wasson met Faulkner at the Un...
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    50,26 €

  • A Life in Our Times
    John Kenneth Galbraith
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    23,10 €

  • The Savage Pilgrimage
    CATHERINE CARSWELL
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    28,14 €

  • Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967
    James B. Lloyd
    Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967edited by James B. LloydLives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967 presents the first comprehensive view of authors who have published books in the one hundred and fifty years since Mississippi achieved statehood. The writers included in this biographical dictionary range from William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wr...
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    56,86 €

  • This House of Sky
    Ivan Doig
    A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and f...
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    18,03 €

  • Dostoevsky Reminiscences
    Anna Grigor’evna Sni Dostoevskaia / Beatrice Stillman
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    23,78 €

  • We Thought We Could Do Anything
    Henry Ephron
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    16,62 €

  • Henry David Thoreau
    Joseph W. Krutch / Joseph WKrutch / unknown
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    82,14 €

  • Herman Melville
    Newton Arvin / Unknown
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    63,93 €

  • 1931-1934
    Anaïs Nin
    The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker’s own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. 'One of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters.'--Los Angeles Times'As unique a literary memoir as has been published...lyrical,...
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    18,76 €

  • Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
    Rainer Maria Rilke / Jane Bannard Greene / M. D. Herter Norton / MDHerter Norton
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    24,12 €

  • Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
    Rainer Maria Rilke / M. D. Herter Norton / MDHerter Norton
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    19,13 €

  • La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes
    R. O. Jones
    The Spanish novella Lavida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades was publishedanonymously in Alcalá de Henares, Burgos and Antwerp in 1554. It is most famousas the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel. ...
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    17,80 €

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne - American Writers 23
    Hyatt H. Waggoner / Hyatt HWaggoner
    Nathaniel Hawthorne - American Writers 23 was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. ...
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    35,17 €

  • Alexander Pope
    Bonamy Dobree
    A biographical and critical study. From a life so crammed with incident, Mr. Dobrée has chosen those facts which seem most to bear on the poet’s development in life through art. 3 ...
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    13,55 €

  • Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926
    Rainer Maria Rilke / Jane Bannard Greene / M. D. Herter Norton / MDHerter Norton
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    23,87 €

  • Something of Myself
    Rudyard Kipling
    This unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author’s early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his most famous books and poems.Little of this autobiography refers to the private life of the author, his purpose instead being to shed light on the creative inspirations which he saw and which inspired Kipling’s celebrated literary works....
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    12,49 €

  • Mark Twain’s Autobiography
    Mark Twain
    'Start (an autobiography) at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your mind meantime.'-Mark Twain Mark Twain’s Autobiography published ...
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    38,45 €

  • The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
    Burton J. Hendrick
    'The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.' -Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page In The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1923), Burton Hendrick, who first met Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) as an employee of World’s Work, a magazine that Page published, profiles the journalist-turned-diplomat. As a resul...
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    21,65 €

  • The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
    Burton J. Hendrick
    'The air currents of the world never ventilated his mind.'-Walter H. Page, The Life and Letters of Walter PageIn The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (1923), Burton Hendrick, who first met Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) as an employee of World’s Work, a magazine that Page published, profiles the journalist-turned-diplomat. As a result of their professional relationship, Hendri...
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    21,65 €

  • Shakespeare
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'How good and sound and inviolable his innocency, that is never to seek, and never wrong, but speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, ShakespeareShakespeare, the Poet (1850) by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of seven essays Emerson included in his book, Representative Men (also available from Cosimo Classics). Like the other figures in this collect...
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    7,47 €

  • Montaigne
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers. His French freedom runs into grossness; but he has anticipated all censure by the bounty of his own confessions.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, MontaigneMontaigne, the Skeptic (1833) was the first in a series of addresses Ralph Waldo Emerson gave on the thinkers who most influenced his work and whose biographies eventually became ...
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    7,53 €

  • Goethe
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe; or, the WriterGoethe, the Writer (1850) by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of seven lectures Emerson gave on the thinkers who most influenced his work and whose biographies eventually became the content of a collection entitled Representative Men (also available from Cosim...
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    7,44 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume I
    James Boswell
    'When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.' -Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume I (1791) stands as one of the greatest biographies published, documenting the life of arguably the mo...
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    32,62 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume II
    James Boswell
    'When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.' -Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume II (1791) stands as one of the greatest biographies published, documenting the life of arguably the most influential writer of the 18th century. Johnson was a poet, essayist, and biographer, bu...
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    32,65 €

  • The Sea-Wolf
    Jack London
    'Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken.' - Jack London, The Sea Wolf (1904) The Sea Wolf (1904), published on the heels of Jack London’s widely popular The Call of the Wild, sold out 40,000 copies in its first printing. Considered a psychological adventure novel, the story features...
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    22,02 €

  • The People of the Abyss
    Jack London
    'Then arises the third and inexorable question: If Civilisation has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only-MISMANAGEMENT.' - Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1903)The People of the Abyss (1903) documents Jack London’s firsthand account of his time in London’s East End living among t...
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    22,03 €

  • Elizabeth And Her German Garden
    Elizabeth von Arnim
    Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, married a Prussian aristocrat to become Countess von Arnim. Elizabeth and her German Garden, a semi-autobiographical novel based on her life in her beloved German country garden, was published anonymously under the name "Elizabeth". It was so popular that she was soon known, not as "Mary", but as "Elizabeth", even to her family....
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    15,98 €


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