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Biography: literary

Paperback. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans, Gertrude and Leo Stein, lived together for almost forty years, collaborating in one of the great artistic and literary adventures of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of that adventure and relationship. Num Pages: 68 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803217539
ISBN
9780803217539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.41

Paperback. Features an American memoir of growing up in New York with eccentric uncles. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
SKU
KNW0008264
ISBN
9780747579328
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. Traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from an early age and who emerged, against all the odds, as one of the world's most respected writers. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 199.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
F First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520481
ISBN
9780099520481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGLA; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908699220
ISBN
9781908699220
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. A teenage revolutionary's gripping, darkly comic account of life, love and fighting for freedom in Latin America in the 1980s Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; BGLA; BM; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846272028
ISBN
9781846272028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.79

Hardback. A ground-breaking biography revealing the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula. Num Pages: 448 pages, 100 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631490101
ISBN
9781631490101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873515658
ISBN
9780873515658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.72

Hardback. Covers half a lifetime and the range of Frayn's theatrical writing. This title reflects on his path into theatre: the 'doubtful beginnings' of his childhood, his subsequent scorn as a young man and, surprisingly late in life, his reluctant conversion. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; BGF; BGL; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0003665
ISBN
9780571240555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Edited and annotated translation of Stanislaw Lem's previously unpublished fifteen-year correspondence with his principal American translator. Translator(s): Swirski, Peter. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; BGL; BJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380178
ISBN
9781781380178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.52

Hardback. Stephen Crane's short, compact life--"a life of fire," he called it--is surrounded by myths, distortions, and fabrications. Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts, scoured the archives, and followed in Crane's footsteps. The result is the most accurate account of the poet and novelist to date. Num Pages: 452 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 36. Weight in Grams: 938.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674049536
ISBN
9780674049536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.06

hardcover. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810883734
ISBN
9780810883734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.10

Paperback. The enchanting true story of Stephenie Meyer, the Queen of Twilight. Num Pages: 254 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KAK0002952
ISBN
9781844549368
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849165013
ISBN
9781849165013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. Editor(s): Burroway, Janet. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226014104
ISBN
9780226014104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.76

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

Paperback. Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser - August Strindberg was all these. This biography describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 colour + 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300198065
ISBN
9780300198065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.29

Paperback. Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BK; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782272977
ISBN
9781782272977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.10

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

€ 19.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564788528
ISBN
9781564788528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.32

Paperback. Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. This title publishes the entire transcript of Sontag's conversation. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300199024
ISBN
9780300199024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.44

Hardback. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810857575
ISBN
9780810857575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.21

Paperback. Swimming with my Father Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 155.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571221011
ISBN
9780571221011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.04

Paperback. One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church, and immensely popular schoolteacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 193.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571278695
ISBN
9780571278695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Schaffner Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780971059825
ISBN
9780971059825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.82

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