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  • George Eliot
    Frederick Robert Karl
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    Disponible

    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 €

  • Madeleine
    Andre Gide / Justin O’Brien / Justin O'Brien
    The story of a great writer’s marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Gide’s feelings toward his beloved and long-suffering wife. 'Ranks among the masterpieces of Gide’s vibrating prose.'-New York Times ...
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    11,43 €

  • Oscar Wilde
    George Woodcock
    Oscar Wilde was seemingly drawn towards many paradoxes: paganism and Christianity; to be a playboy or a prophet; or to be an aesthetic clown or the creative critic. George Woodcock takes us through this double image of the celebrated personality and writer and attempts to resolve the contradictions. Wilde was influenced by Walter Pater and the Epicureans, by John Ruskin’s theor...
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    39,60 €

  • Jane Austen
    Park Honan
    Readers have long cherished the brilliant, ironic novels of Jane Austen and critics have ranked them with the masterpieces of world literature, but surprisingly, there has been no major biography of the novelist in over seventy years. Park Honan’s highly accliamed 'Jane Austen: Her Life' is the biography that Austen--and her readers--have long deserved. ...
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    21,59 €

  • Starting from Scratch
    Rita Mae Brown
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    17,92 €

  • Chaucer
    Donald R. Howard / Donald RHoward
    In this award-winning biography, the editor of the most popular edition of The Canterbury Tales re-creates the public, private, and poetic life and times of this extraordinary man. 16-page photo insert. ...
    Disponible

    22,69 €

  • Playing Away
    Michael Mewshaw
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    15,56 €

  • Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Patrick Bennett
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    Disponible

    20,98 €

  • Virginia Woolf, Life and London
    Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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    Disponible

    17,39 €

  • Ezra Pound
    John Tytell
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    17,38 €

  • Fabulous Provinces
    Thomas Daniel Young
    Fabulous Provincesby Thomas Daniel YoungIn this affectionate memoir one of the principal scholars of southern literature reflects on his lifelong study and offers his view of how the great writers of the South chanced to emerge during the worst of economic eras in that region. Though he sees this phenomenon through the lens of his own experience in Mississippi, he brings into f...
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    50,53 €

  • Burning Lights
    Bella Chagall / Norbert Guterman
    This is a charming portrait of childhood in the Russian market town where the great painter and his wife grew up. Bella’s warm, humorous stories of her pious Jewish family are illustrated by 36 of her husband’s pen-and-ink line drawings. ...
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    16,83 €

  • George Sand
    Donna Dickenson
    George Sand was admired by Dostoevsky, Whitman, Flaubert, Thackeray and Elizabeth Barret Browning as on of the greatest writers of her time. Her sixty novels received critical acclaim and earned her enough money to donate over a million pounds to socialist causes. But now she is remembered mainly as a ’femme fatale’ who wore trousers, smoked cigars and lived with Chopin, among ...
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    193,68 €

  • We Made It Through the Winter
    Walter Omeara
    Written by a Minnesota native son, We Made It Through the Winter is a book for all seasons and all readers. A distinguished author of history and fiction, Walter O’Meara re-creates times that were at once romantic and real. ...
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    20,59 €

  • Ludwig Tieck
    Roger Paulin
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    Disponible

    95,00 €

  • The Chief
    H. Allen Anderson / HAllen Anderson
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    Disponible

    28,68 €

  • The Island of the White Cow
    Deborah Tall
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    15,57 €

  • Frank and Maisie
    Wilfrid Sheed
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    18,13 €

  • Across the Creek
    Jim Faulkner
    Across the Creek, a collection of affectionate reminiscences, adds to the common lore about William Faulkner and his community. Jim Faulkner recounts stories abounding in folklore, humor, family history, and fictionalized history, and these offer an insider’s view of the Faulkner family’s life in the small southern town of Oxford, Mississippi.A sense of adventure and misadventu...
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    50,64 €

  • E.B. White
    Scott Elledge
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    18,30 €

  • Moments of Being
    Virginia Woolf
    Moments of Being is 'the single most moving and beautiful thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote about her own life' (The New York Times) and her only autobiographical writing, published years after her death. This collection of five pieces written for different audiences spanning almost four decades reveals the remarkable unity of Virginia Woolf’s art, thought, and sensibility.?...
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    13,82 €

  • Conrad Under Familial Eyes
    Halina Carroll / Halina Carroll-Najder
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    124,09 €

  • Return to Yesterday
    Ford Madox Ford
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    21,34 €

  • Count No ’Count
    Ben Wasson / Hicks Collins
    Coming home to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1918 after a stint in the Royal Flying Corps, young William Faulkner was arty and dandified. He sometimes was seen in his airman’s uniform, and he affected English manners. His pose amused some of his townsmen, and joking behind his back, they called him “The Count” and “Count No ’Count.”During this period Ben Wasson met Faulkner at the Un...
    Disponible

    50,26 €


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