Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 229 x 33. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300216158
- ISBN
- 9780300216158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.76
€ 25.99
€ 19.76
Paperback. Tells how Clarice Lispector through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century". Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846147814
- ISBN
- 9781846147814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.03
€ 21.99
€ 16.03
Paperback. Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099556091
- ISBN
- 9780099556091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.30
€ 13.99
€ 10.30
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 Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet's skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise?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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062269492
- ISBN
- 9780062269492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.54
€ 17.99
€ 15.54
Hardcover. Focusing on love and loss, this book celebrates friendship, reading, love of children and the consolations of a landscape. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 770. Good clean copy fine in dustjacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000247
- ISBN
- 9780224088985
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BGLA; BM; VFVK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Otago University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578892
- ISBN
- 9781877578892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Hardback. Translator(s): Philcox, Richard. Series: SB - The Africa List. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423764
- ISBN
- 9780857423764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 21.68
€ 26.99
€ 21.68
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857985767
- ISBN
- 9780857985767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.44
€ 30.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. From the author of the critically acclaimed Christmas bestseller Seasonal Suicide Notes. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444708691
- ISBN
- 9781444708691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.46
€ 14.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. I remember shaving off my beard in the bathroom on the eve of the camp, with Mahalia Jackson singing rousing spirituals from the living room. Afterwards my chin was strangely smooth, and seemed to have shrunk. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781770091443
- ISBN
- 9781770091443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.46
€ 12.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564788726
- ISBN
- 9781564788726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.91
€ 15.99
€ 14.91
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784782030
- ISBN
- 9781784782030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.46
€ 39.46
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691616254
- ISBN
- 9780691616254
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.46
€ 76.46
Paperback. Translator(s): Posten, Anne. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; AGB; BGF; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811221399
- ISBN
- 9780811221399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.59
€ 16.99
€ 15.59
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474415385
- ISBN
- 9781474415385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.83
€ 22.83
Paperback. A biography of W B Yeats, it covers the second half of Yeats' life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry. It also weaves together his life and work. Num Pages: 832 pages, 32pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1306. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0024921
- ISBN
- 9780192806093
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 48.00
€ 48.00
Paperback. Translator(s): Sartarelli, Stephen. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 101. .
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811222105
- ISBN
- 9780811222105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.92
€ 16.99
€ 15.92
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 458 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JF; BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691644714
- ISBN
- 9780691644714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.85
€ 212.85
Paperback. Series: Dark Master Series. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903517697
- ISBN
- 9781903517697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.95
€ 13.99
€ 12.95
Hardback. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231153560
- ISBN
- 9780231153560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.75
€ 41.99
€ 29.75
Hardcover. A chronological account takes the reader through the key events in the lives of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and their deaths. Num Pages: 192 pages, 250 colour photographs, 20 archive photographs, 20 artworks. BIC Classification: 1DBKESX; BGL; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 288 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1260.
- Publisher
- Aurum Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909342132
- ISBN
- 9781909342132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 26.21
€ 38.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 192 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848859043
- ISBN
- 9781848859043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.11
€ 14.99
€ 13.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241243671
- ISBN
- 9780241243671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70