Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Hardcover. Wendell Berry's unique perspective and vision have allowed him to propose complex questions - especially about humankind and our relationship to the land - and to provide simple but profound solutions. This work celebrates this important man, appraising his written work and illuminating his influence as an activist and artist. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- F First Edition; First Printing Used
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124421
- ISBN
- 9780813124421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.71
€ 46.71
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 35 x 144 x 225. Weight in Grams: 597. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0011608
- ISBN
- 9780340897904
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007487240
- ISBN
- 9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.97
€ 13.99
€ 9.97
Paperback. "Vanity Fair", published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. This title shows that Thackeray was a complex man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publicity that accompanied his passage through life. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563259
- ISBN
- 9780099563259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.03
€ 21.99
€ 17.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- Univ of Arizona PR ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816517145
- ISBN
- 9780816517145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.82
€ 39.82
Paperback. Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? This is the question at the heart of the Shakespeare Authorship debate, and one that has been hotly debated by scholars and enthusiasts for over 150 years. This book introduces an answer to one of the longest-standing enigmas in literary history. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 329 x 31. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405840866
- ISBN
- 9781405840866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.06
€ 43.06
Paperback. BIC Classification: BGA; BGLA; DNF; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807001912
- ISBN
- 9780807001912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.58
€ 17.99
€ 14.58
Hardcover. Lets us come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. This title provides encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 592. Very good copy in very good dustwrappers. DW has light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0015940
- ISBN
- 9780571269433
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liberties Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000130
- ISBN
- 9781905483525
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.88
€ 18.88
Paperback. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected. Num Pages: 238 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080110
- ISBN
- 9781847080110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.95
€ 10.99
€ 8.95
Hardcover. An accessible and original book about Joyce, by a hugely respected figure in Ireland. A brilliant recreation of the late 19th- and early 20th-century legal system in Ireland. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; BGL; LNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. . Clean copy. Fine in dust jacket. DJ has minimal wear and tear to edges.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000283
- ISBN
- 9781786691583
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. A fresh, revealing and entertaining account of Oscar Wilde, the most influential writer of his age, and the women who inspired him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780715651193
- ISBN
- 9780715651193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.58
€ 15.99
€ 13.58
Paperback. 242 pages, black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 13. Weight: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Reader
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781448205202
- ISBN
- 9781448205202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.08
€ 20.08
Hardcover. A wonderfully honest and deeply accomplished tribute to a complicated, talented mother and writer - 'An Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen' (Bookseller) - by her daughter. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16ppblack-and-white. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 362 x 33. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349007526
- ISBN
- 9780349007526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.38
€ 16.38
Paperback. Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Lightly sunned cover. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0019532
- ISBN
- 9781847080691
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Montague, Conor; Frazier, Adrian. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780716531654
- ISBN
- 9780716531654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.58
€ 30.99
€ 24.58
Hardcover. Despairing of his volatile, unstable marriage, T S Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to his eighteen-year union with Vivien Haigh-Wood Eliot. This book offers a vivid and personal documentation of T S Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1202.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571316342
- ISBN
- 9780571316342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 30.77
€ 49.99
€ 30.77
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: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571278695
- ISBN
- 9780571278695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.28
€ 13.99
€ 10.28
Hardcover. 18 July 1898. World-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter 'J'accuse' and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he is standing in and a nightshirt wrapped in newspaper, Zola flees to England with no idea when he will return. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 250 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571312016
- ISBN
- 9780571312016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.88
€ 19.99
€ 13.88
Paperback. Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL; BGX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219722
- ISBN
- 9780300219722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.66
€ 17.66