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  • The Young Hemingway
    Michael Reynolds
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    18,99 €

  • Hemingway
    Michael Reynolds
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    20,56 €

  • Old Books, Rare Friends
    Leona G. Rostenberg / Leona GRostenberg / Leona Rostenberg / Madeleine B. Stern / Madeleine BStern / Madeline B. Stern
    When their friendship and business partnership began in the 1940s, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern were pioneers in a man’s world. Now approaching their nineties, the duo, who -- among their many discoveries -- unearthed Louisa May Alcott’s pseudonymous blood-and-thunder stories, remain a vibrant institution in the rare book trade, even as the Internet changes their field ...
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    16,69 €

  • Boris Pasternak
    Barnes Christopher / Christopher Barnes
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    238,30 €

  • Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray
    Cherry Hankin / Katherine Mansfield
    The New Zealand-born writer Mansfield (1888-1923) and her husband, Murry, the English editor and literary critic, exchanged hundreds of passionate, probing letters during their tempestuous 11-year relationship. Their correspondence reveals Mansfield’s fiercely independent spirit, as well as her intense need for undertanding from Murry from the time she met him at the home of a ...
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    19,40 €

  • Chekhov
    Philip Callow
    The life of Russia’s greatest dramatist and storyteller examined within the context of the evolution of his art. A 'fine biography...a very well-written, intelligent account of Chekhov’s remarkable literary career and of his private actions.'-Atlantic Monthly. ...
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    38,79 €

  • The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy
    Shelby Foote / Walker Percy
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    18,97 €

  • Pearl S. Buck
    Peter Conn
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    47,63 €

  • C. S. Lewis
    Lionel Adey
    From early childhood, C. S. Lewis engaged the world around him primarily through the medium of books. He read voraciously, and his own writing covers a broad range of genres. This new study by Lionel Adey is unique in its attempt to trace the development of C. S. Lewis as a maker and reader of books. Adey shows how the two sides of Lewis’s personality, the 'Dreamer' and the 'Me...
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    26,23 €

  • Angela Carter
    Aidan Day / Aidan Professor Day
    This full scale study discusses Angela Carter’s fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter’s immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading sh...
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    32,22 €

  • Days with Walt Whitman with Some Notes on His Life and Work
    Edward Carpenter
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    28,88 €

  • Life of Emanuel Swedenborg together with A Brief Synopsis of His Writings both Philosophical and Theosophical
    William White
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,59 €

  • Conversations with Joseph Brodsky
    Solomon Volkov
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    18,97 €

  • Recovering
    May Sarton
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    17,44 €

  • Lemady
    Keith Roberts
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    32,57 €

  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Arthur Hobson Quinn
    Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of 'The Red Mask of Death,' 'The Black Cat,' and 'The Murders of the Rue Morgue,' Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and 'The Fall of the H...
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    48,77 €

  • Family
    Fiffer / Sharon Sloan Fiffer
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    14,92 €

  • I’ll Always Have Paris
    Art Buchwald
    In 1948, an American innocent named Art Buchwald set sail for Paris, determined to win a place at Hemingway’s movable feast and make himself famous. What’s more, he did it. Now, he remembers those golden years when he wrote for the 'Paris Herald Tribune', fell in love, spoofed Hemingway, dined with gangsters, and crashed costume balls in Venice. Everything that has made Buchwal...
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    16,85 €

  • William Faulkner
    David Minter
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    39,15 €

  • Life in a Day
    Doris Grumbach
    'Astonishes in its honesty. . . . What greater gift can a memoir bring than a self revealed in all its grubby particulars?' ...
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    12,59 €

  • Portrait of My Body
    Phillip Lopate
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    16,57 €

  • Of Fiction and Faith
    W. Dale Brown
    Of Fiction and Faith features in-depth, personal interviews between W. Dale Brown and twelve American writers-from celebrated award winners to those just beginning to find readers.Conducted over a five-year period, these face-to-face interviews provide a window into the personal and literary lives of some of our most significant writers. Here the writers candidly discuss their ...
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    25,39 €

  • Walter Benjamin
    Bernd Witte / James Rolleston
    Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the quintessential European intellectual between the two world wars. Historian, philosopher, literary critic, student of language and culture, and journalist, the independent scholar was forever trying to define himself and his time as products of a tradition in crisis. In a very real sense, Benjamin's life and work were one—a chronicle of t...
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    34,02 €

  • Ruined By Reading
    Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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    19,30 €

  • At Eighty-Two
    May Sarton
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    21,61 €

  • History of My Life (Revised)
    Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt Casanova / Willard R Trask
    Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from the seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a l...
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    64,88 €

  • History of My Life, 5 (Revised)
    Giacomo Chevalier de Seinga... Casanova / Willard R Trask
    Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from the seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a l...
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    65,17 €

  • History of My Life (Revised)
    Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt Casanova / Willard R Trask
    Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from the seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a l...
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    65,09 €

  • History of My Life, Volume 9 and 10
    Giacomo Chevalier De Seingalt Casanova / Willard R Trask
    Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powe...
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    64,48 €

  • History of My Life
    Giacomo Casanova / Willard R. Trask
    The last two volumes of Casanova’s account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Doña Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with Lord Baltimore, and his serious illness in Aix-en-Provence when he is taken care of by a mysterious woman who turns out to the s...
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    64,48 €


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