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  • 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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    156,57 €

  • 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 €

  • Daniel Defoe
    Paula R. Backscheider
    Throughout one of English history’s most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, religious, and social controversy. This widely acclaimed biography offers a fascinating account of Defoe’s remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals new information about Defoe’s secret career as a double agent, his daring business v...
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    41,64 €

  • D. H. Lawrence
    John Worthen
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    53,31 €

  • Long Ago in France
    M. F. K. Fisher / MFKFisher
    In 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. LONG AGO IN FRANCE is Fisher’s exquisitely evocative, deliciously candid memoir of her three-year stay in Dijon. It is a delightful journey backward - in the grandest of company - into a volupt...
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    12,18 €

  • A Chainless Soul
    Katherine Frank
    The most gifted of her famous, troubled family, Emily Bronte has too often been portrayed in 'storm-tossed, sentimental' biographies, according to Katherine Frank. Now Frank presents a startling new interpretation: pledged to self-denial and social isolation, Emily starved herself, contributing to her wild imagination. 16-page insert. ...
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    16,58 €

  • Albert Pike A Biography
    Fred W. Allsopp / Fred WAllsopp
    ''Albert Pike: A Biography'' by Fred W. Allsopp is a comprehensive account of the life and legacy of one of the most influential Freemasons in American history. The book traces Pike’s life from his humble beginnings in Massachusetts to his rise as a lawyer, poet, and Confederate general during the Civil War. It also delves into his involvement in the Masonic fraternity, where h...
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    44,66 €

  • Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
    Justin Kaplan
    Mark Twain, the American comic genius who portrayed, named, and in part exemplified America’s “Gilded Age,” comes alive in Justin Kaplan’s extraordinary biography.With brilliant immediacy, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual persona symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality and freewheeling ambition. As ...
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    23,11 €

  • Shelby Foote
    Jr. Robert L. Phillips / Robert Jr. Phillips
    Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel. His artistic distance from the elements of regionalism that lie at the he...
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    50,03 €

  • One to One
    Christina Baldwin
    For years I’ve been telling friends about the therapeutic powers of the act of writing. Now at last I have a book that I can recommend.-Judith Guest, author of Ordinary People ...
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    11,26 €

  • Simone de Beauvoir
    Deirdre Bair
    This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. 'As a reference work . . . Simone de B...
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    37,56 €

  • Divine Invasions
    Lawrence Sutin
    'Divine Invasions' is the first full-scale biography of Philip K. Dick, a brilliant writer who, working inside the science fiction field, created some of the most powerful and lasting visionary fiction of this century. This biography chronicles the story of a man whose life was truly as interesting as his own enduring work. ''Divine Invasions' is a perceptive introduction to Ph...
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    17,93 €

  • Son and Lover
    Philip Callow
    A skillful biography focusing on D. H. Lawrence’s developing consciousness during his childhood and youth in the English Midlands, his university days, his elopement with Frieda, and his departure from England in 1919. 'A surprising tale of metamorphosis which Mr. Callow recreates better than any previous Lawrence biographer.' -Julian Moynihan. ...
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    19,43 €

  • Henry and June
    Anaïs Nin
    Drawn from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, 'Henry and June' is an intimate account of a woman’s sexual awakening. It covers a single momentous year - from late 1931 to the end of 1932 - during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. She fell in love with June’s beauty and Henry’s writing and, soon after June’s departure for New York, b...
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    14,58 €

  • George Eliot
    Frederick Robert Karl
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    33,35 €

  • Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
    Franz Kafka / Clara Winston / Richard Winston
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    24,54 €

  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas
    Marjory Stoneman Douglas
    Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this 'frontier' town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial...
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    14,57 €

  • After the Stroke
    May Sarton
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    17,30 €

  • Katharine and E. B. White
    Isabel Russell
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    17,34 €

  • Margaret Mead
    Jane Howard
    Howard’s definitive biography of the woman who was one of the giants of the 20th century covers Mead’s professional accomplishments, three marriages, intense friendships, and groundbreaking travels. 16-page photograph insert. ...
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    21,33 €

  • Fast Fade
    Andrew Yule
    Featuring 16 pages of photographs, this ultimate inside-Hollywood story of egos and ambition offers an intimate account of the feud between David Puttnam and Columbia Pictures. ...
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    16,28 €


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