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  • Marie Corelli
    R. S. Bell / R. S. Warren / RSBell / RSWarren / Thomas F. G. Coates / Thomas FGCoates
    Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman is a comprehensive biography written by Thomas F. G. Coates about the life of the famous British novelist, Marie Corelli. The book delves into Corelli’s early life, her rise to fame as a writer, and her personal relationships. Coates explores Corelli’s literary career, including her best-known works, such as The Sorrows of Satan and The L...
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    40,99 €

  • The Fading Smile
    Peter Davison
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    19,72 €

  • I Knew a Phoenix
    May Sarton
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    16,54 €

  • Endgame
    May Sarton
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    21,64 €

  • Balzac
    Graham Robb
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    21,62 €

  • The House by the Sea
    May Sarton
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    18,23 €

  • William Blake
    Arthur Symons
    The book ''William Blake'' by Arthur Symons is a comprehensive biography of the life and work of the famous English poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake. The book delves into the details of Blake’s upbringing, education, and artistic influences, as well as his personal relationships and the political and social climate of his time. Symons explores Blake’s unique style of ...
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    45,86 €

  • Incidents in the Life of Madame H.P. Blavatsky
    A. P. Sinnett / APSinnett
    Incidents in the Life of Madame H.P. Blavatsky is a biographical book written by A.P. Sinnett. The book is about the life of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author. The book details her early life, her travels to various parts of the world, her experiences with spiritualism, and her founding of the Theosophical Society. The book also inc...
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    38,57 €

  • 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consists of journalism -- near daily articles in the Communist press during the late 1940s and 1950s -- six novels (two unpublished) and two volumes of short stories.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 €

  • 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 €

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

  • Samuel Johnson
    Clark J. C. D. / Clark JCD. / J. C. D. Clark / JCDClark / Jonathan Clark
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    137,64 €

  • 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 €