| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “autobiography”
books tagged “autobiography”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
-
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, John D. Seelye, Guy CardwellISBN 0142437174 (0-14-243717-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style, Twain's story of what he once called a "sound heart" triumphing over a "deformed conscience" is poignant, powerful, and fresh. It is no wonder that this extraordinary book continues to captivate readers around the world. This handsome Oxford World's Classic edition uses the reliable 1885 text and includes in-depth, up-to-date editorial apparatus. [via]
More editions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0142500984 (0-14-250098-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0195101405 (0-19-510140-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0142437174 (0-14-243717-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
-
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114094 (0-19-511409-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
More editions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885:
As I Was Going Down Sackville Streetby O. S. GogartyISBN 015609004X (0-15-609004-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Was Going Down Sackville Street'More editions of As I Was Going Down Sackville Street:
Baa Baa, Black Sheep and the Gardenerby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0146000145 (0-14-600014-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep and the Gardener'More editions of Baa Baa, Black Sheep and the Gardener:
-
The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperorby Wheeler M. Thackston, BaburISBN 0195096711 (0-19-509671-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor'Book summary:Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur was the first Mughal, or Mongol, emperor of India. A devoted warrior who fought by the bloodthirsty standards of his time, Babur was also a gifted scholar and ethnographer, and his memoir, The Baburnama--which translator and editor Wheeler Thackston heralds as the first autobiography in Islamic literature--paints a fascinating portrait of the lands he conquered, such as Hindustan: "A strange country. Compared to ours, it is another world. Its mountains, rivers, forests, and wildernesses, its villages and provinces, animals and plants, peoples and languages, even its rain and winds are altogether different." They were different indeed, and we're fortunate to have this beautifully illustrated record of Babur's wonderment at the new places he saw. [via]
More editions of The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor:
Banker to the Poor : The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bankby Muhammad Yunus, Alan JolisISBN 0195795377 (0-19-579537-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Banker to the Poor : The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank'More editions of Banker to the Poor : The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank:
-
Bark If You Love Meby Louise BernikowISBN 015601095X (0-15-601095-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bark If You Love Me'Book summary:A single city woman meets Mr. Right-he has amber eyes and a wily heart. There's only one catch . . . he has four legs and a tail.[via]
Relatively indifferent to the natural world, allergic to dogs, and happily independent, writer Louise Bernikow never had a pet and knew nothing about caring for one. But one day while running along Manhattan's Hudson River, she came across an abandoned boxer. He had a gimpy leg and a dim past, but Bernikow instantly, bewilderingly, did the one thing her mother always warned her not to do-she brought the strange male home.
Here is the comical and offbeat story of their first year together. Libro, as she comes to call him (for "book," in Spanish), introduces her to the curious world of dog runs and dog people, and to a local dive where the bartender pulls pints from the tap and dog biscuits from the drawer. Bernikow, in turn, introduces Libro to the eccentric neighbors and to life as a media hound. When they meet a handsome man and his equally handsome dachshund,
life takes an unexpected turn for both of them.
Wonderfully written and captivating to the last, this is a remarkable tale of companionship.More editions of Bark If You Love Me:
-
Black Beautyby Anna Sewell, Roy Richardson, June BrigmanISBN 014240408X (0-14-240408-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
-
The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgivenessby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0195134281 (0-19-513428-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness'Book summary:When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory.
Where Open Sore offered a critique of African nationhood and a searing indictment of the Nigerian military and its repression of human and civil rights, The Burden of Memory considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as it poses the next logical question: Once repression stops, is reconciliation between oppressor and victim possible? In the face of centuries long devastations wrought on the African continent and her Diaspora by slavery, colonialism, Apartheid and the manifold faces of racism what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? In a voice as eloquent and humane as it is forceful, Soyinka examines this fundamental question as he illuminates the principle duty and "near intolerable burden" of memory to bear the record of injustice. In so doing, he challenges notions of simple forgiveness, of confession and absolution, as strategies for social healing. Ultimately, he turns to art--poetry, music, painting--as one source that may nourish the seed of reconciliation, art as the generous vessel that can hold together the burden of memory and the hope of forgiveness.
Based on Soyinka's Stewart-McMillan lectures delivered at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard, The Burden of Memory speaks not only to those concerned specifically with African politics, but also to anyone seeking the path to social justice through some of history's most inhospitable terrain. [via]More editions of The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness:
-
The Cat Insideby William S. BurroughsISBN 0142000256 (0-14-200025-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Inside'Book summary:Best known for the wild, phantasmagoric satire of works like Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs reveals another, gentler side in The Cat Inside. Originally published as a limited-edition volume, this moving and witty discourse on cats combines deadpan routines and dream passages with a heartwarming account of Burroughs's unexpected friendships with the many cats he has known. It is also a meditation on the long, mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts, which Burroughs traces back to the Egyptian cult of the "animal other." With its street sense and whiplash prose, The Cat Inside is a genuine revelation for Burroughs fans and cat lovers alike.[via]More editions of The Cat Inside:
-
Complications Notes from the Life of a Young SurgeonISBN 0143028456 (0-14-302845-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This BookBook summary:Gently dismantling the myth of medical infallibility, Dr. Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science is essential reading for anyone involved in medicine--on either end of the stethoscope. Medical professionals make mistakes, learn on the job, and improvise much of their technique and self-confidence. Gawande's tales are humane and passionate reminders that doctors are people, too. His prose is thoughtful and deeply engaging, shifting from sometimes painful stories of suffering patients (including his own child) to intriguing suggestions for improving medicine with the same care he expresses in the surgical theater. Some of his ideas will make health care providers nervous or even angry, but his disarming style, confessional tone, and thoughtful arguments should win over most readers. Complications is a book with heart and an excellent bedside manner, celebrating rather than berating doctors for being merely human. --Rob Lightner [via]
More editions of Complications Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon:
Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann BanksISBN 015622030X (0-15-622030-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf'Book summary:Virginia Woolf was an inventive, witty correspondent, whether commenting on a domestic crisis, politics, or the roving of the writer's mind. Edited and with an Introduction by Joanne Trautmann Banks; Index.[via]More editions of Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf:
Daddyjiby Ved Parkash MehtaISBN 0195026195 (0-19-502619-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Daddyji'More editions of Daddyji:
-
David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Nina BurgisISBN 0192835785 (0-19-283578-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
More editions of David Copperfield:
- David Copperfield: ISBN 0192816098 (0-19-281609-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - David Copperfield: ISBN 0192832492 (0-19-283249-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - David Copperfield: ISBN 019422709X (0-19-422709-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - David Copperfield: ISBN 0192100432 (0-19-210043-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - David Copperfield: ISBN 0192835785 (0-19-283578-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- David Copperfield: ISBN 0192816098 (0-19-281609-8)
Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhoodby Angelica GarnettISBN 0192819127 (0-19-281912-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood'More editions of Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood:
The Diary of John Evelynby John Bowle, John EvelynISBN 0192510118 (0-19-251011-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of John Evelyn'More editions of The Diary of John Evelyn:
The Diary of John Evelynby John Evelyn, John BowleISBN 0192815296 (0-19-281529-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of John Evelyn'More editions of The Diary of John Evelyn:
-
Diary of Virginia Woolfby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156260379 (0-15-626037-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of Virginia Woolf'Book summary:The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.[via]More editions of Diary of Virginia Woolf:
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1931-1935by Virginia Woolf, Anne Oliver BellISBN 0156260395 (0-15-626039-5)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1931-1935'More editions of The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1931-1935:
Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeologyby T. S. MaxwellISBN 0195629256 (0-19-562925-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeology'More editions of Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeology:
Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Taleby 'Jen TryninISBN 0156032961 (0-15-603296-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale'More editions of Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale:
For Spacious Skies : The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronautby Scott Carpenter, Kris StoeverISBN 0151004676 (0-15-100467-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'For Spacious Skies : The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut'More editions of For Spacious Skies : The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut:
-
In Patagoniaby Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 0142437190 (0-14-243719-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In Patagonia'Book summary:An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwins exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through the uttermost part of the earth that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcomein search of almost forgotten legends, the descendants of Welsh immigrants, and the log cabin built by Butch Cassidy. An instant classic upon publication in 1977, In Patagonia is a masterpiece that has cast a long shadow upon the literary world.[via]More editions of In Patagonia:
Inferno and from an Occult Diaryby August Strindberg, Mary SandbachISBN 0140443649 (0-14-044364-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno and from an Occult Diary'More editions of Inferno and from an Occult Diary:
Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938by Mary McCarthyISBN 0156447878 (0-15-644787-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938'Book summary:Bursting with the vitality both of McCarthy's personality and of her times, this work reveals the autobiographical impulse behind much of her most popular work. It reveals the checkered beginnings of her literary career, including a biting series in the Nation excoriating her fellow critics. [via]
More editions of Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938:
Islandmanby Tomas O'CrohanISBN 0192812335 (0-19-281233-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Islandman'More editions of Islandman:
-
Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, Ll.Dby Samuel JohnsonISBN 0192810723 (0-19-281072-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, Ll.D'Book summary:Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Detailed notes of their individual impressions are now published in this volume. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands records his observations on the Scottish landscape and architecture, and the traditions and character of the Scots themselves. Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides is much more gossipy and circumstantial. Together, the two accounts provide a splendidly entertaining guide to Scotland. [via]
More editions of Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland; And Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, Ll.D:
-
Journal of the Plague Yearby Daniel Defoe, Louis A. LandaISBN 0192836188 (0-19-283618-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal of the Plague Year'Book summary:Defoe's reconstruction of the Great Plague of 1665 is literature's most compelling account of a natural disaster. An imaginary citizen of London wanders the stricken capital recording the appalling suffering of plague victims. The account is horrifying, yet movingly compassionate. The new introduction sheds fresh light on the relationship of "The Journal" to Pepys's diary, and a new medical note based on epidemiological research. [via]
More editions of Journal of the Plague Year:
-
La Vita Nuova: (Poems Of Youth)by Alighieri Dante, Barbara ReynoldsISBN 0140449477 (0-14-044947-7)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'La Vita Nuova: (Poems Of Youth)'Book summary:La Vita Nuova marked a turning point in European literature, introducing personal experience into the strict formalism of medieval love poetry. The sequence of poems tells the story of Dante?s passion for Beatrice, the beautiful sister of one of his closest friends, transformed through his writing into a symbol of love that was both spiritual and romantic. From unrequited passion to the profound grief he experiences at the loss of his love, this work intersperses exquisite verse with Dante?s own commentary on the structure and origins of each poem, offering a unique insight into the poet?s art and skill. Barbara Reynolds?s translation, acclaimed for its lucidity and faithfulness to the original, is now enhanced with a new introduction and other material.[via]More editions of La Vita Nuova: (Poems Of Youth):
Learning To Fly: The Autobiographyby Victoria BeckhamISBN 0141003944 (0-14-100394-4)
Softcover, Penguin Global
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning To Fly: The Autobiography'More editions of Learning To Fly: The Autobiography:
-
Letters from an American Farmerby J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Susan ManningISBN 0192838989 (0-19-283898-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters from an American Farmer'Book summary:Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and identity issues, these Letters celebrate personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression, and the largeness and fertility of the land. They also address darker and more symbolic elements, particularly slavery. This book is the only critical edition available of what is seen by many as the first-ever work of American literature. [via]
More editions of Letters from an American Farmer:
The Letters of Rachel Henningby Rachel Henning, David AdamsISBN 0140570233 (0-14-057023-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Rachel Henning'More editions of The Letters of Rachel Henning:
Life Is So Goodby George Dawson, Richard GlaubmanISBN 0141001682 (0-14-100168-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Is So Good'More editions of Life Is So Good:
-
Lives on the Boundaryby Mike RoseISBN 0143035460 (0-14-303546-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives on the Boundary'Book summary:[via]Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficientthese are the stigmas that define Americas educationally underprepared. Having grown up poor and been labeled this way, nationally acclaimed educator and author Mike Rose takes us into classrooms and communities to reveal what really lies behind the labels and test scores. With rich detail, Rose demonstrates innovative methods to initiate problem students into the world of language, literature, and written expression. This book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to re-examine their assumptions about the capacities of a wide range of students.
Already a classic, Lives on the Boundary offers a truly democratic vision, one that should be heeded by anyone concerned with Americas future.
More editions of Lives on the Boundary:
London Child of the 1870'sby M. Vivian HughesISBN 0192812165 (0-19-281216-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'London Child of the 1870's'More editions of London Child of the 1870's:
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogyby M. V. HughesISBN 0192828967 (0-19-282896-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy'More editions of A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy:
A London Home in the 1890sby Mary Vivian Thomas Hughes, Hughes, M. V.(Mary Vivian)ISBN 0192812572 (0-19-281257-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A London Home in the 1890s'More editions of A London Home in the 1890s:
-
A Long Way from Homeby Claude McKayISBN 0156531453 (0-15-653145-3)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Long Way from Home'Book summary:McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Leon Trotsky, W. E. B. Du Bois, Isadora Duncan, Paul Robeson, and Sinclair Lewis.[via]More editions of A Long Way from Home:
-
The Lost World of the Kalahariby Laurens Van Der PostISBN 0156537060 (0-15-653706-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost World of the Kalahari'Book summary:An account of the authors grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africas remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.[via]More editions of The Lost World of the Kalahari:
Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writingsby Louis Armstrong, Thomas BrothersISBN 019514046X (0-19-514046-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings'More editions of Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings:
-
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiographyby Irving HoweISBN 0156572451 (0-15-657245-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography'Book summary:A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index.[via]More editions of A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography:
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinsonby Lucy HutchinsonISBN 0192554034 (0-19-255403-4)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson'More editions of Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson:
A Moment's Libertyby Anne Olivier BellISBN 0151618941 (0-15-161894-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Moment's Liberty'More editions of A Moment's Liberty:
-
A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diaryby Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier BellISBN 0156619121 (0-15-661912-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary'Book summary:The Diary of Virginia Woolf has been acclaimed as a masterpiece. Anne Olivier Bell edited the five-volume original, and she has now abridged the Diary in this splendidly readable single volume edition. A fine opportunity to experience Woolfs biting wit and scathing depiction of her contemporaries (Booklist). Introduction by Quentin Bell; Index.[via]More editions of A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary:
Montauk: Eine Erzahlungby Max FrischISBN 0156619903 (0-15-661990-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Montauk: Eine Erzahlung'
My Apprenticeshipby Maxim GorkyISBN 014044291X (0-14-044291-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'My Apprenticeship'More editions of My Apprenticeship:
My Life In Orangeby Tim GuestISBN 015603106X (0-15-603106-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'My Life In Orange'More editions of My Life In Orange:
-
My Universitiesby Maxim GorkyISBN 0140443029 (0-14-044302-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'My Universities'Book summary:Written by the founding father of socialist realism in literature, this is an autobiographical work. The author also wrote "Fragments from my Diary", "My Apprenticeship", "My Childhood", "The Lower Depths", "The Zykovs" and "Children of the Sun". [via]
More editions of My Universities:
My Work in Filmsby Eugene LourieISBN 0156623420 (0-15-662342-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'My Work in Films'
Notebooks, 1935-1942by Albert CamusISBN 0156674009 (0-15-667400-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Notebooks, 1935-1942'More editions of Notebooks, 1935-1942:
Notebooks, 1942-1951by Albert CamusISBN 0156674017 (0-15-667401-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Notebooks, 1942-1951'More editions of Notebooks, 1942-1951:
-
An Old Woman's Reflectionsby Peig Sayers, Seamus EnnisISBN 0192812394 (0-19-281239-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An Old Woman's Reflections'Book summary:Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition. [via]
More editions of An Old Woman's Reflections:
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of Franceby Carol DrinkwaterISBN 0142001309 (0-14-200130-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France'More editions of The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France:
-
Our Nigby Harriet E. Wilson, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Reginald H. PittsISBN 0142437778 (0-14-243777-8)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Nig'Book summary:"Our Nig" is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household. Frado's story is a tragic one; having left the Bellmonts, she eventually marries a black fugitive slave, who later abandons her. [via]
More editions of Our Nig:
Pages from the Goncourt Journalby Edmond GoncourtISBN 0140570144 (0-14-057014-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pages from the Goncourt Journal'More editions of Pages from the Goncourt Journal:
Papers and Journals: A Selectionby Alastair Hannay, Sren KierkegaardISBN 0140445897 (0-14-044589-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Papers and Journals: A Selection'More editions of Papers and Journals: A Selection:
Perfect Pitch: A Life Storyby Nicolas SlonimskyISBN 0193151553 (0-19-315155-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfect Pitch: A Life Story'More editions of Perfect Pitch: A Life Story:
-
The Personal History of David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0192545027 (0-19-254502-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Personal History of David Copperfield'Book summary:David Copperfield (1849-50) was Dickens's favorite novel: 'Of all my books', he wrote, 'I like it the best.' Strikingly autobiographical in its childhood scenes, it relates David's history from birth to young manhood, and the host of characters he meets on his journey of self-knowledge: Mr Micawber, the Peggottys, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth and Uriah Heep among them. [via]
More editions of The Personal History of David Copperfield:
Popism: The Warhol '60sby Andy Warhol, Pat HackettISBN 0151730954 (0-15-173095-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Popism: The Warhol '60s'More editions of Popism: The Warhol '60s:
-
Popism: The Warhol Sixtiesby Andy Warhol, Pat HackettISBN 0156031116 (0-15-603111-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Popism: The Warhol Sixties'Book summary:Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhols personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at the relationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including his relationship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming film Factory Girl. In the detached, back-fence gossip style he was famous for, Warhol tells allthe ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution.[via]More editions of Popism: The Warhol Sixties:
-
Revelations of Divine Loveby Julian, A. C. Spearing, Elizabeth SpearingISBN 0140446737 (0-14-044673-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Revelations of Divine Love'Book summary:Describe a series of revelations which the author received from God in the year 1373. This title identifies the female nature of Christ's suffering and the motherhood of God, using images from domestic daily life, emphasizing the homeliness of God's love. [via]
More editions of Revelations of Divine Love:
-
Rosa Parksby Rosa Parks, James HaskinsISBN 0141301201 (0-14-130120-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosa Parks'Book summary:Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Yet there is much more to her story than this one act of defiance. In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the civil rights movement and her active role in it. Her dedication is inspiring; her story is unforgettable. "The simplicity and candor of this courageous woman's voice makes these compelling events even more moving and dramatic." ? Publishers Weekly, starred review[via]More editions of Rosa Parks:
Selected Lettersby Madame De SevigneISBN 014044405X (0-14-044405-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Letters'More editions of Selected Letters:
Selected Writingsby Gerard De Nerval, Richard SieburthISBN 014044601X (0-14-044601-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings'More editions of Selected Writings:
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfectionby Michael RuhlmanISBN 0141001895 (0-14-100189-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection'More editions of The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection:
-
Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writingsby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 0192826298 (0-19-282629-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writings'Book summary:This volume of Stevenson's travel writings includes his first published book An Inland Voyage (1878) - a vivid account of a canoe voyage in Belgium and France in two sail-powered skiffs, named Cigarette and Arethusa - and Stevenson's popular description of a tour with his recalcitrant donkey Modestine, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). Stevenson's natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life are borne out by these works, which prompted a contemporary critic to suggest that he was `a Frenchman born out of place', rather than `a Scotsman of the Scots'. In addition to these longer pieces, a selection of travel essays deriving from the writer's experiences on the C te d'Azur, at Fontainbleau, and in the Swiss Alps reveal Stevenson's iconoclasm, his unconventionality, and the Bohemian stance which brought about his confrontation with the Edinburgh literary establishment. [via]
More editions of Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writings:
-
Twenty Years A-Growingby Maurice O'SullivanISBN 0192813250 (0-19-281325-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years A-Growing'Book summary:In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends--without any thought of a wider audience--O'Sullivan now enjoys a devoted following of readers who appreciate what E.M Forster praised as the "gaiety and magic" of this book. [via]
More editions of Twenty Years A-Growing:
-
Victorian Familyby M. Vivian HughesISBN 0192812807 (0-19-281280-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Victorian Family'Book summary:(Boxed set of A London Child of the 1870's, A London Girl of the 1880's, and A London Home in the 1890's.) [via]
More editions of Victorian Family:
Vita Nuovaby Dante Alighieri, Mark MusaISBN 0192839357 (0-19-283935-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vita Nuova'Book summary:Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as Dante's most profound creation. The thirty-one poems in this, the first of his major writings, are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story set to the task of confirming the "new life" this meeting inspired. With a critical introduction and explanatory notes, this is a new translation of a supreme work which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself. [via]
Waiting For Birdy: A Year Of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, And The Wild Magic Of Growing A Familyby Catherine NewmanISBN 0143034774 (0-14-303477-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting For Birdy: A Year Of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, And The Wild Magic Of Growing A Family'More editions of Waiting For Birdy: A Year Of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, And The Wild Magic Of Growing A Family:
War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939-1944by Anne Morrow LindberghISBN 015694703X (0-15-694703-X)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939-1944'More editions of War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939-1944:
War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters, Nineteen Thirty-Nine to Nineteen Forty-Fourby Anne M. LindberghISBN 0151946612 (0-15-194661-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters, Nineteen Thirty-Nine to Nineteen Forty-Four'More editions of War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters, Nineteen Thirty-Nine to Nineteen Forty-Four:
-
The Way of All Fleshby Samuel Butler, Michael MasonISBN 0192829807 (0-19-282980-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of All Flesh'Book summary:The Way of All Flesh (1903) "exploded like a bomb" in Edwardian drawing rooms. Based on Samuel Butler's own life and published posthumously, it offers a scathing indictment of Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family.
Butler's satire centers on Ernest Pontifex, an orthodox young man who suddenly sees the falseness of the rules and expectations forced on him by parents and teachers, an epiphany which leads him to renounce the moral, religious, and social values he once held. [via]More editions of The Way of All Flesh:
-
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawaby Sledge, Eugene B., Jr., Paul FussellISBN 0195067142 (0-19-506714-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa'Book summary:In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.
Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience.
Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa." But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed.
Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage. [via]More editions of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa:
Results page: PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101-173 NEXT
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}