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Biography: literary

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Middleton, Jeff. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Broadway Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400080465
ISBN
9781400080465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.02

Paperback. A fishing trip honoring a dying man's wish becomes a meditation on life, nature and friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands of Scotland. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857381361
ISBN
9780857381361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.45

Hardcover. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403974372
ISBN
9781403974372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.87
€ 40.30

Paperback. This definitive biography unravels the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain's most famous author in his day, published with a brand new introduction on the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 66. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474602983
ISBN
9781474602983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.99

Paperback. Villa Diodati. 1816. In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 pages of black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847678720
ISBN
9781847678720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.07

Paperback. A biography of the celebrated author of classics such as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr Ripley". Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 408. A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women. 544 pages, Illustrations. A biography of the celebrated author of classics such as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr Ripley". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight: 402.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408811191
ISBN
9781408811191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.18

Hardcover. Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature recounts the poet's odyssey through WWI, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion of Poland, and the USSR's postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. This edition contains a new introduction by the translators, along with maps and a chronology. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 16. .
Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674495043
ISBN
9780674495043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408842416
ISBN
9781408842416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507895
ISBN
9780099507895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.02

Hardback. Offers an account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton in his quarter centenary year. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 44. Weight in Grams: 774. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapperFirst edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KEX0303332
ISBN
9780747584254
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

Paperback. The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired 'Doctor Zhivago'. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008156817
ISBN
9780008156817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, the author tells life as she has lived it. She acknowledges the passing years, from the generational shrinking of underwear to facing the fact that her knees make 'this noise like Rice Krispies' when she exercises. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559030
ISBN
9780099559030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.80

Hardcover. "Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!"?Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Num Pages: 432 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393245097
ISBN
9780393245097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.78

Paperback. Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Phoenix
Edition
New ed.
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753826997
ISBN
9780753826997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. In this seminal biography, Heller traces the controversial author's life, from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 567 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BGL; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Anchor
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400078936
ISBN
9781400078936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.19

Hardcover. In this new memoir, Anne Edwards-bestselling author of biographies on Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, and Ronald Reagan-turns the spotlight on herself, chronicling her 20-year exile from the United States from the 1950s until the early 1970s. Num Pages: 320 pages, 42 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; BGL; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810881990
ISBN
9780810881990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. A new short biography of the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, by pre-eminent Russian scholar Professor Anthony Briggs. Num Pages: 125 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
125
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843919254
ISBN
9781843919254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.67

Paperback. Tolstoy's two novels, "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", are among the best loved in world literature. This title compares these works. It considers why such a strong character as Tolstoy welcomed into his life two appalling individuals whose malign influence changed him and his literary career forever. Series: Brief Lives. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
115
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843919117
ISBN
9781843919117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 9.92

Paperback. Masterly biography of Leigh Hunt - publisher, poet, critic and Republican, and the mentor of Keats and Shelley Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117706
ISBN
9780349117706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages, 12 pages b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; APFD; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853039068
ISBN
9780853039068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 26.99

Paperback. The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edition shows how he exaggerated to create his compelling narrative, and includes other writings to show how subtle and complex his approach to literature really was. Editor(s): Shrimpton, Nicholas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGLA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199675296
ISBN
9780199675296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.10

Paperback. A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 334.
Edition
0th Edition
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753828786
ISBN
9780753828786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.01

Paperback. The new book by New Yorker journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9780349005300
ISBN
9780349005300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.03

Paperback. Tells of Arthur Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. This book puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France, and ends with his escape from there in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a home. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Vintage Classics London
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099490685
ISBN
9780099490685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.52

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