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Biography: literary

Paperback. The Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson's most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger Lonsdale's authoritative complete edition, and introduced by John Mullan. Editor(s): Lonsdale, Roger. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199226740
ISBN
9780199226740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.59

Paperback. In his radically new analysis of an extraordinary life, Damian Flanagan moves away from the stereotypical depiction of Mishima as a right-wing nationalist and aesthete and presents him as a man utterly obsessed with time - time-keeping devices and symbols - arguing that this compulsion was at the heart of the author's literature and life. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 35 black & white. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 202 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780233451
ISBN
9781780233451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 680 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: ACXD7; BG; BGL; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 185 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1254.
Publisher
Black Widow Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780979513787
ISBN
9780979513787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.45

Hardcover. Series: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 100 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; AN; BGL; DSGS; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 130 x 17. .
Publisher
Rydon Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910821060
ISBN
9781910821060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

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

€ 18.40

Paperback. A thoroughly researched, balanced new biography of author, journalist and adventurer Ernest Hemingway. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 201 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780235783
ISBN
9781780235783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.72

Paperback. Tim Winton's homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main market ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447203094
ISBN
9781447203094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.10

Paperback. First published in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte's poems. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847772466
ISBN
9781847772466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.05

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752455389
ISBN
9780752455389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.50

Hardback. Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation and a source of literary inspiration. Translator(s): Elliot, Nicholas. Num Pages: 528 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 44. Weight in Grams: 978.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674737952
ISBN
9780674737952
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.57

Paperback. Prior to the First World War, T E Hulme was one of the most original and striking creative personalities in England, strongly admired by both Pound and Eliot. Yet he died in 1917, virtually unknown. This title presents his portrait. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571295289
ISBN
9780571295289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.43

Paperback. A collection of essays by some of the major international literary and cultural critics on the Shakespeare authorship question and controversy. It explores the Authorship question as a social, cultural and even theological phenomenon and consider it in all its rich diversity and significance. Editor(s): Leahy, William. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826426116
ISBN
9780826426116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 45.78

Paperback. An innovative and unique study exploring why many readers of Sylvia Plath become so attached to her as a cultural figure. By looking at first encounters with Plath's work through to pilgrimages that they make to places where Plath lived, this study explores why readers become so haunted by Plath. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781555477
ISBN
9781781555477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.40

hardcover. One of America's most important classics, a beautiful special edition hardback of the first and best-loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 135 x 34. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349005997
ISBN
9780349005997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.48

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218008
ISBN
9780300218008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Sir Walter Scott's two-volume biography of the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), first published in 1826. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420. Fine copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
326
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KST0011482
ISBN
9781108034180
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 6.75

Paperback. An elegiac ode to love, death, and profound friendship, from the author of The Two Kinds of Decay Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847083111
ISBN
9781847083111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. .
Publisher
Ally
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993473494
ISBN
9780993473494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.92

Paperback. An accessible biography of C S Lewis, his life and the friendships that shaped him Num Pages: 256 pages, 8pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Lion UK
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745955872
ISBN
9780745955872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.10

Paperback. Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander--considered one of America's most important contemporary poets--reflects with gratitude on her life after the sudden death of her husband. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 257 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781455599868
ISBN
9781455599868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.58

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