Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Paperback. A title that involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader. It presents Austen as remarkably clever; sensitive, but sentimental; tough, yet observant; guarded; and a woman with the devil of a genius in her. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241963272
- ISBN
- 9780241963272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.13
€ 16.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783781164
- ISBN
- 9781783781164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
€ 13.99
€ 11.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474235334
- ISBN
- 9781474235334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.47
€ 50.99
€ 36.47
Paperback. Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bronte's letters, offering fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition. Editor(s): Easson, Angus. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199554768
- ISBN
- 9780199554768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
€ 15.99
€ 13.08
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 35 color & 128 b/w images. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764344459
- ISBN
- 9780764344459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.87
€ 30.99
€ 20.87
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€ 11.62
€ 13.99
€ 11.62
Hardback. Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds. Editor(s): Griffin, Benjamin; Smith, Harriet E.; Fischer, Victor; Frank, Michael B.; Goetz, Sharon K.; Myrick, Leslie Diane. Series: Mark Twain Papers. Num Pages: 776 pages, 37 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 183 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1728.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272781
- ISBN
- 9780520272781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.19
€ 48.99
€ 35.19
Paperback. 650 pages, ill. When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him. Even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 44. Weight: 546. Translator(s): Porter, Cathy.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 650
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846881022
- ISBN
- 9781846881022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 13.77
€ 15.00
€ 13.77
Paperback. The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers Num Pages: 624 pages, 2 x 8pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719565557
- ISBN
- 9780719565557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.27
€ 21.99
€ 16.27
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
€ 38.99€ 32.62
€ 38.99
€ 32.62
Paperback. An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Bronte sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393352702
- ISBN
- 9780393352702
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.13
€ 17.13
Paperback. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel "Poor Folk" to "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov" by setting them in their personal, historical, and ideological context. Num Pages: 984 pages, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1418.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 984
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- With a New preface by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155999
- ISBN
- 9780691155999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.48
€ 38.99
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- PENGUIN BOOKS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241964439
- ISBN
- 9780241964439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.42
€ 20.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099553281
- ISBN
- 9780099553281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.13
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€ 13.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608197651
- ISBN
- 9781608197651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.86
€ 16.86
paperback. Featuring correspondents such as T S Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, this book includes letters that were written and received by George Orwell. Editor(s): Davison, Peter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192635
- ISBN
- 9780141192635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.21
€ 21.99
€ 16.21
Paperback. Aims to recreate the turbulent times through which William Shakespeare lived: the age of the Reformation, the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the colonization of the Americas. Drawing on a range of sources, this work takes us back into Elizabethan England to reveal a man who is the product of his time. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780563521419
- ISBN
- 9780563521419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 14.67
€ 21.99
€ 14.67
Paperback. Translator(s): Anemone, Anthony; Scotto, Peter. Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 600 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; BGL; DCF; DQ; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618113726
- ISBN
- 9781618113726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.98
€ 36.99
€ 36.98
Paperback. The quick-witted boy from a poor and struggling family, who overcame disadvantages and shouldered many burdens to make a go of his life; who found happiness, had it snatched away from him, and in the end, after many difficulties, perhaps found it again. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571270590
- ISBN
- 9780571270590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.98
€ 15.99
€ 11.98
Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184388
- ISBN
- 9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81