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Biography: literary

Paperback. Series: Brief Lives. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843919209
ISBN
9781843919209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.79

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

Paperback. Num Pages: 824 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1157.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
824
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816699476
ISBN
9780816699476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551526003
ISBN
9781551526003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885586483
ISBN
9781885586483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.66

Paperback. Series: Scholarly Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564784575
ISBN
9781564784575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 2AGZ; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195533
ISBN
9781845195533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Daniels, Ian. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570. Inside the Dark, Twisted World of H. P. Lovecraft. 352 pages, Illustrations. Illustrator(s): Daniels, Ian. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 21. Weight: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601632197
ISBN
9781601632197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.88

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 Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007487240
ISBN
9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.71

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

€ 39.81

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

€ 18.99
€ 14.59

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

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 United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
352
SKU
KCW0015940
ISBN
9780571269433
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00
€ 4.99

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

€ 14.99
€ 11.13

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

€ 7.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Immortalized as the author of "The Riddle of the Sands", Erskine Childers led a life quite as enigmatic and adventurous as his classic novel. This is the biography of Childers. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571276837
ISBN
9780571276837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.50

Hardback. 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
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571316342
ISBN
9780571316342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 30.50

Hardback. 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
€ 13.61

Multiple-component retail product. Reflecting the vast cultural diversity of American literature, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive introduction to the spectacularly diverse range of ethnic-minority American writers. Including more than 1100 alphabetically arranged entries, it is useful to those interested in understanding contemporary American society and literature. Editor(s): Nelson, Emmanuel S. Num Pages: 2692 pages, 200 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 270 x 200 x 195. Weight in Grams: 6722.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
2692
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313330599
ISBN
9780313330599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 361.63

Hardcover. Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves. Editor(s): Williams, John A.; Williams, Lori. Series: African American Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Edition
Adapted ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814333556
ISBN
9780814333556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.50

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