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  • Pierre Courtade
    John Flower
    Pierre Courtade (1915-1963) was recognised by his peer group to be an independent, sharply intelligent thinker and a talented writer. His principal work consists of journalism -- near daily articles in the Communist press during the late 1940s and 1950s -- six novels (two unpublished) and two volumes of short stories. This first study of Courtade examines the conflict between...
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    193,45 €

  • Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist
    James Bishop
    Through Abbey’s own writings and personal papers, as well as interviews with friends and acquaintances, Bishop gives us a penetrating, compelling, no-holds-barred view of tile life and accomplishments of this controversial figure. ...
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    16,37 €

  • Encore
    May Sarton
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    18,93 €

  • Hopkins
    Norman White
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    76,22 €

  • Extra Innings
    Doris Grumbach
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    18,15 €

  • A Life in Letters
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America’s most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald’s ...
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    26,44 €

  • Ivan Bunin
    Thomas Gaiton Marullo
    In this second volume of his major work on Bunin, Marullo recreates his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, after escaping from his newly bolshevized country in 1920. A vivid picture of a man without a country, and a window on the lively but despairing and often fractious community of Russian emigrés in Paris in the twenties. 'An important event that will change the perception of ...
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    43,09 €

  • Oleander, Jacaranda
    Penelope Lively
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    13,09 €

  • Unto the Sons
    Gay Talese
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    24,70 €

  • War Within and Without
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    The story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life, begun in Bring Me a Unicorn, continues in this fifth and final published volume of her diaries and letters. This record of the Lindberghs’ wartime years is emotionally charged by the struggle between the American isolationists, who counted among their membership Charles Lindbergh, and the interventionists, who included Anne’s mother an...
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    30,17 €

  • The Redneck Way of Knowledge
    Blanche McCary Boyd / Blanche McCrary Boyd
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    14,27 €

  • My Life as Author and Editor
    H. L. Mencken / H.L. Mencken / HLMencken
    Sealed in a vault for 35 years--upon the direction of Mencken himself--this account of the writer’s early career is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits, had it been published immediately after his death. 'Well worth the wait . . . irreverent, inimitable, often outrageous . . . and, above all, compelling'.--Chicago Sum-Times...
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    21,59 €

  • Samuel Johnson
    Clark J. C. D. / Clark JCD. / J. C. D. Clark / JCDClark / Jonathan Clark
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    146,40 €

  • Dangerous Enthusiasm
    Jon Mee
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    77,77 €

  • Dreams in the Mirror
    Richard S Kennedy
    Along with Pound, Eliot, and Joyce, Edward Estlin Cummings is one of the leading American poets who revolutionized literary expression in the twentieth century. He was also a Cubist painter, a champion of the little man, a brilliant conversationalist, a romantic idealist, a famous irrational curmudgeon, and husband to three of the most beautiful women of his time. This critical...
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    24,52 €

  • Evelyn Waugh
    Martin Stannard
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    25,37 €

  • Olaf Stapledon
    Robert Crossley
    William Olaf Stapledon is best remembered for the extraordinary works of speculative fiction he published between 1930 and 1950. As a novelist, he was known as the spokesman for the Age of Einstein and has influenced writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doris Lessing.This biography is the first to draw on a vast body of unpublished and private documents--...
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    62,38 €

  • Borges on Writing
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Borges On WritingIn 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, and the students. Borges’s pros...
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    15,93 €

  • Looking Back
    Linda K Hubalek
    In this fourth book of the Butter in the Well series, Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, now 75, looks back at the changes she has experienced on the farm she homesteaded 51 years ago. She reminisces about the past, resolves the present situation, and looks toward their future off the farm. The author, Linda K. Hubalek, grew up on the farm that this main charactor homesteaded in 1868. ...
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    8,77 €

  • Gray’s Anatomy
    Spalding Gray
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    11,45 €

  • Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters
    Lewis Turco
    Buried in Emily Dickinson’s letters are many lines that are stunningly beautiful, as beautiful as any to be found in her poems. Lewis Turco has taken some of these lines and written poems from them, on them, and around them. This volume, then, is a collaboration between two writers, one a 19th-century woman whose work became known to most readers only in the 20th century, and...
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    41,06 €

  • James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia
    Edgar MacDonald
    James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginiaby Edgar MacDonaldIn his prime Vanity Fair nominated James Branch Cabell for 'Immortality' on its pages reserved for acclaiming the most select of notable achievers. Favored by the intelligentsia, Cabell was the author of a series of fabulous, well-told fictions that in the 1920s made him a household literary name. Among his many accl...
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    49,46 €

  • Spenser’s Secret Career
    Richard Rambuss
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    166,48 €

  • At Seventy
    May Sarton
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    18,92 €

  • Biography of Satan
    Kersey Graves
    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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    28,78 €

  • Vladimir Nabokov
    Brian Boyd
    This first major critical biography of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest of twentieth-century writers, finally allows us full access to the dramatic details of his life and the depths of his art. An intensely private man, Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. Transformed into a permanent wanderer, he did not achieve fame until late i...
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    55,50 €

  • Vladimir Nabokov
    Brian Boyd
    The story of Nabokov’s life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security. ...
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    75,48 €

  • The Marquis de Sade
    Donald Thomas / Tony Thomas
    Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Marquis de Sade 1740-1814, remains a man whose name is instantly recognized but whose life is obscure. Born close to royalty in the age of aristocratic decadence, he precipitated sexual scandals in the grand manner. Alleged poisoning and unnatural practices with a group of girls in Marseilles earned him a death sentence. While hunted by the law he co...
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    17,10 €

  • In the Shade of Spring Leaves
    Ichiyo Higuchi / Robert Lyons Danly
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    20,56 €

  • Anne Finch and Her Poetry
    Barbara McGovern
    Anne Finch and Her Poetry is the first major critical examination of the life and works of the foremost English woman poet of the eighteenth century. This biography places Anne Finch (1661-1720) in her social and literary milieu and includes discussion of such topics as love and marriage, female friendships, melancholy, and nature as they relate both to Finch's life and to ...
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    58,83 €


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