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Biography: literary
Brand: Head of Zeus
Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter'..
13.04£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are thos..
36.81£
Brand: Orion
The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos'A happy, hilarious book' Daily ExpressNancy ..
13.44£
Brand: Random House
Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'Hemingway's memori..
13.64£
Brand: Random House
Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encoun..
10.33£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade a..
17.54£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus £300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope d..
13.56£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
December 1862 drove the United States towards a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary..
34.98£
Brand: Omnibus Press
Adrian Henri was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group The Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the bestselling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The trio of Liver..
24.72£
Author Jim Holden brings us unforgettable portraits of extraordinary people daring to live their dreams and their singular passions. The protagonists range from the famous to the forgotten and the settings from the wilderness to the urban. The famou..
27.36£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read American poet but the story behind her work's publication in 1890 is barely known. After Emily recounts the extraordinary lives of Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham and the powerfu..
20.02£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marpl..
17.36£
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph'Worsley's book exce..
24.46£
Brand: Orion
Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself..
13.84£
Brand: The History Press
This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world created by the undisputed 'Queen of Crime', Agatha Christie. Examining her place in literary history, her books and her iconic characters, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, this un..
14.40£
Brand: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
'I took you because you were the most fearless.' AUGUST STRINDBERG TO ALBERT BONNIER, 1884. In 1835, a fifteen-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish bookseller, arrived in Stockholm from Copenhagen. Two years later, he published his first book. During A..
29.30£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very S..
11.29£
Brand: Reaktion Books
"An outstanding book."-James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."-Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of th..
17.57£
Brand: Yale University Press
Aleksander Wat was, in many ways, the archetypal Central European intellectual of the mid-twentieth century, a man who experienced and influenced all the tumultuous political and artistic movements of his time. Yet, little has been published about h..
32.90£
Brand: Harvard University Press
For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographer Roy Morris, Jr., focuses on the dozen years Twain spent overseas and on the popular travel books-The Innoce..
38.60£
ISBN: 9781787059535Publisher: MX PublishingImprint: MX PublishingPublished date: 19 May 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 704gHeight: 215mmWidth: 139mmSpine width: 36mm..
26.92£
Brand: Yale University Press
The seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) is one of the most intriguing figures in English literature. A noted civil servant under Cromwell's Protectorate, he has been variously identified as a patriot, spy, conspirator, concealed homo..
24.08£
Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceWinner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies2009 Outstanding Academi..
47.41£
Brand: Saraband
Anne Brontë: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if..
13.91£