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  • 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 €

  • The Amateur Emigrant
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun’s whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man.' -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (fol...
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    18,88 €

  • Charles Dickens As I Knew Him
    George Dolby
    George Dolby worked as manager and secretary for the author Charles Dickens, accompanying him on his famous writing tours in Britain and North America.As well as being a prolific author, Charles Dickens was renowned for his capacity to evocatively read his stories to others. He channeled the emotional and dramatic portions of his books so well that listeners often sat rapt in s...
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    14,80 €

  • The Silverado Squatters
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. . . . As I recall the place-the green dell below; the spires of pine; the sun-warm, scented air . . . I slowly awake to a sense of admiration, gratitude, and almost love.' -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado SquattersThe Silverado Squatters (1888), by Robert Louis Stevenson, describes experiences the author shared with hi...
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    14,96 €

  • Edinburgh
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.' ―Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes This edition of Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a travel book by one of...
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    18,84 €

  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Two Volumes in One
    John Forster
    '...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm.' -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872)The Life of ...
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    58,69 €

  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume II
    John Forster
    'This cheap edition of my books is dedicated to the English people, in whose approval, if the books be true in spirit, they will live, and out of whose memory, if they be false, they will very soon die.' -Charles Dickens, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume II (1874)The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume II (1874) focuses on the English author’s life from 1842-1851 and documents h...
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    29,01 €

  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I
    John Forster
    '...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm.' -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872)The Life of ...
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    29,11 €

  • Memoir of Jane Austen
    James Edward Austen-Leigh
     THE MEMOIR of my AUNT, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second E...
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    15,54 €


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