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  • Crime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640
    John W. Weatherford
    Crime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuses on the punishments common in England around the time of Shakespeare and Milton, presenting descriptions of more than fifty criminal cases. Information comes from narratives printed for the popular news media at the time of the event. Details of everyday life in England and facts...
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    42,86 €

  • Wannabe
    Badgwendel
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    17,31 €

  • An Ambrose Bierce Companion
    Robert L. Gale / Robert LGale
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    105,70 €

  • Ring
    Jonathan Yardley
    Sportswriter, storyteller, humorist-Ring Lardner was an American original, and in this affectionate, entertaining, and authoritative biography, Pulitzer Prize winning critic Jonathan Yardley gives us a new look at Lardner’s all too short life and career. ...
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    17,54 €

  • Tolstoy
    A. N. Wilson / ANWilson
    In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, w...
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    26,96 €

  • The Secret Opinions of Irving B. Gerson
    Irving B. Gerson / Irving BGerson
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    21,40 €

  • From There to Here
    Robert M. Rock
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    24,80 €

  • Poet in America
    Scott Donaldson
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    31,04 €

  • The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia
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    105,32 €

  • Joseph Conrad
    Jeffrey Meyers
    Filled with provocative new assessments and new facts, this biography presents the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , and one of the great figures of modern literature. ...
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    15,62 €

  • Le Commerce du Parnasse
    Françoise Pascal
    This edition of Françoise Pascal’s collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and préciosité. ...
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    45,86 €

  • Letters from the Editor
    Harold Wallace Ross
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    21,18 €

  • A Mug Up with Elisabeth
    Marilyn Westervelt / Melissa Hayes
    Here is the essential reference for fans of Elisabeth Ogilvie’s books -- and a wonderful introduction to one of Maine’s most prolific writers. ...
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    15,86 €

  • Reminiscences of a Russian Antiquarian Bookseller
    Paula Israelewicz
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    29,11 €

  • Caresse Crosby
    Anne Conover
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    18,37 €

  • Living to Tell
    Eddy Douglas Brown
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    14,08 €

  • Norma Fox Mazer
    Arthea J S Reed / Arthea J.S. Reed / Arthea J.SReed / Arthea JSReed
    In Norma Fox Mazer: A Writer’s World, Reed chronicles her discovery that, although Mazer’s husband and his work are thoroughly intertwined with and complimentary to her own, the author 'is fiercely independent-a feminist.' ...
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    92,11 €

  • Thomas Morton of 'Merrymount'
    Jack Dempsey
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    25,25 €

  • Naipaul’s Truth
    Lillian Feder
    V.S. Naipaul once described his purpose as an author as nothing less than a 'commitment to deliver the truth.' One of the world’s greatest, and most controversial, living writers, he has written extensively about the enduring economic, cultural, and psychological effects of colonialism, particularly its assaults on individual identity. In Naipaul’s Truth, Lillian Feder, noted a...
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    36,72 €

  • Thinking of Home
    William Faulkner
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    17,49 €

  • Starting from Home
    Milton Meltzer
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    16,34 €

  • Francis Ledwidge
    Elizabeth Cassidy Olson
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    11,62 €

  • The Eyes of the Heart
    Frederick Buechner
    From critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize runner-up Frederick Buechner comes another powerfully honest memoir, The Eyes of the Heart. Full of poinant insights into his most personal relationships, this moving account traces how the author was shaped as much by his family’s secrets as by its celebrations.Within the innermost chambers of his consciousness, Buechner, in ...
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    14,93 €

  • Iris and Her Friends
    John Bayley
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    19,14 €

  • T. S. Eliot
    Lyndall Gordon
    In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" (The New Yorker), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" (Boston Globe). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full the issue of Eliot's anti-Semitism as well as the less-noted issue of his mis...
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    29,20 €

  • Family Matters
    Burton Bernstein
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    17,30 €

  • Susan Glaspell
    Barbara Ozieblo
    During her lifetime, playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was regarded as highly as Eugene O’Neill and Edith Wharton. Winner of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Alison’s House), she was cofounder of the Provincetown Players, the little theater that 'discovered' O’Neill. Later, Glaspell was instrumental in introducing American drama to English audiences when ...
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    60,64 €

  • Oscar Wilde
    Barbara Belford
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    19,99 €

  • Edward Albee
    Mel Gussow
    EDWARD ALBEE: A SINGULAR JOURNEY ...
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    15,35 €

  • The Journals of George Eliot
    George Eliot
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    35,98 €


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