Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Paperback / so. Series: Grove Great Lives. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 36. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802139344
- ISBN
- 9780802139344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.27
€ 23.27
Paperback. The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. Num Pages: 448 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 47. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007254774
- ISBN
- 9780007254774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.68
€ 24.99
€ 18.68
Hardback. A biography of the Anglo-American poet and activist Denise Levertov that brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. It chronicles Levertov's role as a passionate social activist in volatile times and her importance as a teacher of writing. Num Pages: 532 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 36. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272460
- ISBN
- 9780520272460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.86
€ 48.99
€ 34.86
Paperback. Take a peek behind the curtain to discover the boy, the youth, the man behind some of the greatest works of English literature. The life and times of William Shakespeare, richly imagined in this unique biography told using the Bard's own quotes. Num Pages: 120 pages, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 212 x 9. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Upstart Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927262023
- ISBN
- 9781927262023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.52
€ 20.99
€ 20.52
Paperback. Series: Neversink. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935554486
- ISBN
- 9781935554486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.16
€ 19.99
€ 19.16
Hardback. A fresh look at Hellman's restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical myths Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustration. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164978
- ISBN
- 9780300164978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.00€ 19.76
€ 23.00
€ 19.76
Paperback. These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with William Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. Editor(s): Woof, Pamela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536870
- ISBN
- 9780199536870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.33
€ 13.99
€ 11.33
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Edition
- Reprint edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140431360
- ISBN
- 9780140431360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.80
€ 16.99
€ 13.80
Paperback. Agatha Christie's disappearance in December 1926 as seen in a new light: a real life mystery as gripping as any of her novels Num Pages: 128 pages, 19 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 167 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781552629
- ISBN
- 9781781552629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.36
€ 16.99
€ 15.36
Paperback. When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752442884
- ISBN
- 9780752442884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.35
€ 16.35
Paperback. Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and 90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. This title offers readers a short, readable introduction to Oscar Wilde's life, work and afterlife. Series: Writers Lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272. Series: Writers Lives. 176 pages. Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and 90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. This title offers readers a short, readable introduction to Oscar Wilde's life, work and afterlife. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 16. Weight: 272.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826498526
- ISBN
- 9780826498526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.54
€ 28.54
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Daniels, Ian. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570. Inside the Dark, Twisted World of H. P. Lovecraft. 352 pages, Illustrations. Illustrator(s): Daniels, Ian. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 21. Weight: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781601632197
- ISBN
- 9781601632197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.88
€ 26.99
€ 24.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Harbour Books (East) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905128280
- ISBN
- 9781905128280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.36
€ 19.99
€ 15.36
Paperback. Duncan Wu's fascinating portrait of William Hazlitt - the first fully-researched biography, and the first to cover Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era. Num Pages: 592 pages, frontispiece, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1042.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199588848
- ISBN
- 9780199588848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.22
€ 20.99
€ 16.22
Paperback. Fascinating insight into the tempestuous life of one of our great poets through his letters, including those to the two great loves of his life. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227252
- ISBN
- 9781780227252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.93
€ 11.99
€ 9.93
Hardback. Documents the literary friendship between the English novelist EM Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet CP Cavafy. This book includes extant letters, the earliest published Cavafy translations, facsimiles of Cavafy's authorial revisions, poems by EM Forster, archival photographs, and related letters. Editor(s): Jeffreys, Peter. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774162572
- ISBN
- 9789774162572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.39
€ 33.39
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374534912
- ISBN
- 9780374534912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.60
€ 23.99
€ 20.60
Paperback. Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin's passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823276837
- ISBN
- 9780823276837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.45
€ 29.99
€ 26.45
Paperback. Award-winning novelist talks about family, culture, and place with disarming honesty and wry irony. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888645593
- ISBN
- 9780888645593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Newton, Michael. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539116
- ISBN
- 9780199539116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.92
€ 15.99
€ 12.92
Paperback. Borderlines is a memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people. Num Pages: 315 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVG; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893996335
- ISBN
- 9781893996335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.45
€ 19.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408837764
- ISBN
- 9781408837764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.72
€ 16.99
€ 13.72
Paperback. I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571269440
- ISBN
- 9780571269440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.14
€ 12.99
€ 10.14
Lets us come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. This title provides encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 592. Very good copy in very good dustwrappers. DW has light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 352
- SKU
- KCW0015940
- ISBN
- 9780571269433
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00€ 4.99
€ 20.00
€ 4.99