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Abe Lincoln Grows Upby Carl SandburgISBN 0156026155 (0-15-602615-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abe Lincoln Grows Up'Book summary:A beautifully told story of young Abraham Lincolns coming-of-age[via]
Drawn from the early chapters of Carl Sandburgs Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, this is the story of Abraham Lincolns childhood. Growing up poor on the family farm, Abe did chores, helped his father cut down trees, and expertly skinned animals and cured hides. As a young man, he became an avid reader. When he witnessed a slave auction while on a flatboat trip down the Mississippi, he was forever changedand so was the future of America. This is the remarkable story of Lincolns youth, early America, and the pioneer life that shaped one of our countrys greatest presidents. -
Agricola and Germanyby Cornelius Tacitus, Anthony Richard BirleyISBN 0192833006 (0-19-283300-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agricola and Germany'Book summary:Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years of enforced silence. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus' late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier. Germany provides an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving example of an ethnographic study from the ancient world. Each book in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern barbarians. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career. [via]
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The Agricola and the Germania: And the Germaniaby Cornelius TacitusISBN 0140442413 (0-14-044241-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agricola and the Germania: And the Germania'Book summary:"The Agricola" is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola as far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. The warlike German tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in the "Germania", which, like the "Agricola", often compares the behaviour of 'barbarian' peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome. [via]
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Amos Fortuneby Elizabeth Yates, Nora Spicer UnwinISBN 0140341587 (0-14-034158-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Augustus John: A Biographyby Michael HolroydISBN 0140041419 (0-14-004141-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothingby Lee ServerISBN 0312312105 (0-312-31210-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Bring on the Empty Horsesby David NivenISBN 0241892732 (0-241-89273-2)
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C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscencesby James T. ComoISBN 0156232073 (0-15-623207-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Cat Who Came for Christmasby Cleveland AmoryISBN 0140252738 (0-14-025273-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Cat Who Came for Christmasby Not AvailableISBN 0140997067 (0-14-099706-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (Born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (Mother of the Emperor...by Robert GravesISBN 0140004211 (0-14-000421-1)
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mindby Chuck BarrisISBN 0312162146 (0-312-16214-6)
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Ladyby Florence KingISBN 0312050631 (0-312-05063-1)
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Conversations With Capoteby Lawrence GrobelISBN 0306809443 (0-306-80944-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939by Anais Nin, Gunther StuhlmannISBN 0156260263 (0-15-626026-3)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939'Book summary:Beginning with Nin's arrival in New York, this volume is filled with the stories of her analytical patients. There is a shift in emphasis also as Nin becomes aware of the inevitable choice facing the artist in the modern world. "Sensitive and frank...[Nin's] diary is a dialogue between flesh and spirit" (Newsweek). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.[via]More editions of The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939:
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Dickens of Londonby Wolf MankowitzISBN 0297771590 (0-297-77159-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiographyby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0252010477 (0-252-01047-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography'Book summary:Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book. The New Yorker
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literatures most compelling and influential authors. Hurstons powerful novels of the Southincluding Jonahs Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were Watching Godcontinue to enthrall readers with their lyrical grace, sharp detail, and captivating emotionality. First published in 1942, Dust Tracks on a Road is Hurstons personal story, told in her own words. The Perennial Modern Classics Deluxe edition includes an all-new forward by Maya Angelou, an extended biography by Valerie Boyd, and a special P.S. section featuring the contemporary reviews that greeted the books original publication.
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Edward Iby Michael PrestwichISBN 0300071574 (0-300-07157-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Einsteinby Jeremy BernsteinISBN 0140043179 (0-14-004317-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Eleanorby Barbara CooneyISBN 0140555838 (0-14-055583-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portraitby Carlos BakerISBN 0140260293 (0-14-026029-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Whartonby Cynthia Griffin WolffISBN 0201409186 (0-201-40918-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Storyby Kim NeelyISBN 0140276424 (0-14-027642-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Flushby Virginia WoolfISBN 0140044531 (0-14-004453-1)
Softcover, Northwestern University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flush'Book summary:This story of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Brownings life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.[via]
Freud, the Man and the Causeby Ronald William ClarkISBN 0224017454 (0-224-01745-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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George Eliot: A Biographyby Gordon S. HaightISBN 0140166327 (0-14-016632-7)
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutionby Steven LevyISBN 0141000511 (0-14-100051-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution'Book summary:Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club--a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators--from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. These eccentric characters used the term "hack" to describe a clever way of improving the electronic system that ran their massive railroad. And as they started designing clever ways to improve computer systems, "hack" moved over with them. These maverick characters were often fanatics who did not always restrict themselves to the letter of the law and who devoted themselves to what became known as "The Hacker Ethic." The book traces the history of hackers, from finagling access to clunky computer-card-punching machines to uncovering the inner secrets of what would become the Internet. This story of brilliant, eccentric, flawed, and often funny people devoted to their dream of a better world will appeal to a wide audience. [via]
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Lifeby Joan D. HedrickISBN 0195096398 (0-19-509639-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life'Book summary:Harriet Beecher Stowe, daughter of a preacher, married to a poor Biblical scholar, and mother of nine, had the early good fortune of an education at a school founded by her feminist older sister. To help support her family, Stowe began to write. In 1851, born of evangelical outrage against slavery, her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin made her famous. Today the very name conveys white paternalism and black passivity, but Hedrick points out that this unfairly ignores the "freedom narrative" of a book that had an electrifying effect on the abolitionist cause. When Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862 he joked, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Hedrick's illuminating biography of this remarkable woman won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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The House Of Mitfordby Jonathan Guinness, Catherine GuinnessISBN 0140101322 (0-14-010132-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate Peopleby Toby YoungISBN 0306812274 (0-306-81227-4)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People'Book summary:In How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young--columnist and former co-editor (with Julie Burchill and Cosmo Landesman) of The Modern Review--portrays himself as a man pulled to the New York media set by twin desires: to trade one-liners with modern day Dorothy Parkers and Robert Benchleys over very dry martinis, and to drink Cristal from a supermodel's cleavage in the back of a limo. In the event, neither is fulfilled and desire shows itself up to be the snake that eats its own tail--endless and ultimately encircling a big fat zero.
How to Lose... is Young's own telling of his disastrous five-year career in New York journalism, initiated when he is offered a job at Vanity Fair, Conde Nast's flagship star-fest. Young may have been hired for his snappy prose, but his real genius turns out to be antagonising the rich and famous. He is the British bulldog in the Armani-clad china shop of the politically correct glossy posse. He hires a strip-o-gram on bring-your-daughter-to-work day, commits the cardinal sin of asking celebs about their religion and sexual orientation, gets blasted on coke while trying to do a photo shoot and spends less time pulling up his chair to the modern day equivalent of the Algonquin table than trying to blag his way past "clipboard Nazis" barring his way into showbiz parties. Oh, and he gets sued by Tina Brown and Harold Evans. This is the place, he soon discovers, where greatness is measured not in your prose stylings, but how far up the guest list you are for Vanity Fair's Oscar party. But two things raise this particular loser's story above the crowd. First is his spot-on outsider's inside observations on phenomena such as the rigidly Austen-ite New York dating scene. Second, he has the columnist's knack of connecting everyday experience to social politics in order to grind both personal and political axes. In the adoration of the celebrity aristocracy by the masses, he sees the realisation of de Toqueville's warning of "the tyranny of the majority" and witnesses, for those lower down the food chain, the corruption of the "be all that you can be" meritocracy America promises. If these are soft targets, then the hilariously toe-curling experiences that lead him to take aim are well worth the price of a cocktail. --Fiona Buckland [via]
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The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singerby Renee FlemingISBN 0143035940 (0-14-303594-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Islandmanby Tomas O'CrohanISBN 0192812335 (0-19-281233-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jack Kerouacby Tom ClarkISBN 0156456621 (0-15-645662-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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James Dickey : The Life and Lies of a Poetby Henry HartISBN 0312203209 (0-312-20320-9)
Hardcover, Picador
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James Dickey : The World as a Lieby Henry HartISBN 0312204167 (0-312-20416-7)
Softcover, Picador
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John Singer Sargent: His Portraitby Stanley OlsonISBN 0312017790 (0-312-01779-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Fatherby Francis J. BremerISBN 0195179811 (0-19-517981-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Artby Gene WilderISBN 0312337078 (0-312-33707-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art'Book summary:In this personal book from the star of many beloved and classic film comedies -- from The Producers to Young Frankenstein, Blazing saddles to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Gene Wilder writes about a side of his life the public hasn't seen on the screen. Kiss Me Like a Stranger is not an autobiography in the usual sense of the word, and it's certainly not another celebrity "tell-all." Instead, Wilder has chosen to write about resonant moments in his life, events that led him to an understanding of the art of acting, and -- more important -- to an understanding of how to give love to and receive love from a woman.[via]
Wilder writes compellingly about the creative process on stage and screen, and divulges moments from life on the sets of some of the most iconic movies of our time.
In this book, he talks about everything from his experiences in psychoanalysis to why he got into acting and later comedy (his first goal was to be a Shakespearean actor), and how a Midwestern childhood with a sick mother changed him. Wilder explains why he became an actor and writer, and about the funny, wonderful movies he made with Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor, and Harrison Ford, among many others. He candidly reveals his failures in love, and writes about the overwhelming experience of marrying comedienne Gilda Radner, as well as what finally had to happen for him to make a true and lasting commitment to another woman.
A thoughtful, revealing, and winsome book about life, love, and the creative process, Kiss Me Like A Stranger is one actor's life in his own words.More editions of Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art:
Lelia: The Life of George Sandby Andre MauroisISBN 0140043543 (0-14-004354-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers : 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelistby Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara ReynoldsISBN 0312140010 (0-312-14001-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers : 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist'Book summary:C.S. Lewis suggested that Dorothy Sayers's letters would one day be recognized as among the finest epistles produced in the 20th century. In fact, this first volume, covering the years from Sayers's early childhood to the later years of personal tragedy and literary triumph, shows a broad-ranging talent and reveals a rich life full of language study, poetry, and books.
Barbara Reynolds, author of the celebrated Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, has selected a cross section of letters to represent the full spectrum of Sayers's expressions and emotions. Most troubling are those desperate letters to John Cournos, the novelist's lover and the man who ultimately jilted her. Also fascinating are her notes to her illegitimate son John Anthony (fathered by Bill White, a "car salesman and motor engineer"), messages expressing deep love that are, simultaneously, touched with the restraint of a mother held distant by social convention. Beyond these very personal moments, however, one traces the budding and then flowering of a literary career. Sayers's years at Oxford and after are peppered with references to her reading, snippets of her writing, and records of her travels in France and elsewhere. As P.D. James writes in the preface to the volume: "by the end of 1936, when this volume ends ... she could look back on half-a-lifetime of courageous living and ultimate achievement.... The enjoyment with which I read this first volume of letters is matched only by my happy expectation of pleasure to come." --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1937-1943, From Novelist to Playwrightby Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara ReynoldsISBN 0312181272 (0-312-18127-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life With David Helfgottby Gillian Helfgott, Alissa TanskayaISBN 0140266445 (0-14-026644-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mankiller: A Chief and Her Peopleby Wilma Mankiller, Michael WallisISBN 0312206623 (0-312-20662-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Marcel Proust: A Lifeby William C. CarterISBN 0300081456 (0-300-08145-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Marquis De Sadeby Donald Serrell ThomasISBN 029777140X (0-297-77140-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhoodby Mary McCarthyISBN 0156586509 (0-15-658650-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Michelangelo/Titianby Michelangelo Buonarroti, Titian, Tokyo Intanashonaru ShuppanISBN 0151593507 (0-15-159350-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Nelson: Love And Fameby Edgar VincentISBN 0300102607 (0-300-10260-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Not Without My Daughterby Betty Mahmoody, William HofferISBN 0312010737 (0-312-01073-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Laneby Jeremy LewisISBN 0141024615 (0-14-102461-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Pillow Bookby Sei Shonagon, Meredith McKinneyISBN 0140448063 (0-14-044806-3)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of the Heian period, describing the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion, and whim dominated, while harsh reality was kept firmly at a distance. Moving elegantly across a wide range of themes including nature, society, and her own flirtations, Sei Shonagon provides a witty and intimate window on a woman's life at court in classical Japan.More editions of The Pillow Book:
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagonby Sei Shonagon, Ivan I. MorrisISBN 0231073372 (0-231-07337-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Present at the Creation, My Years in the State Departmentby Dean AchesonISBN 0241018668 (0-241-01866-8)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Pushkin's Buttonby Serena VitaleISBN 0226857719 (0-226-85771-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pushkin's Button'Book summary:In telling the story of the duel that killed Aleksandr Pushkin, Russia's great poet, writer Serena Vitale does something more exciting than simply putting together a biographical chronology of the man's life. In place of the usual plod through life and works, Vitale focuses on the extraordinary events of the end of Pushkin's life, and works backwards and sideways, as it were, to provide a quirkily rich portrait of the man. She is successful in part because she writes like a novelist instead of an ordinary biographer and she makes connections and assessments worthy of the lively mind of Pushkin himself. Take, for instance, the book's title: an anecdote about Pushkin's clothing noted by a contemporary ("Pushkin's bekesh was missing a button at the back, at waist height ... clearly they were not looking after him") leads Vitale not into contemplation of the adequacy of the many servants who attended the poet, but rather into the way the missing button "resembles the stress accent that suddenly breaks loose from the iamb and vanishes into the void" in a typical Pushkinian line of verse. Pushkin's Button is bursting at the seams with surprising and illuminating perspectives such as this. --Adam Roberts [via]
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The Queen of Whale Cayby Kate SummerscaleISBN 0140276130 (0-14-027613-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houstonby Marquis JamesISBN 0292770405 (0-292-77040-5)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisiby Donald SpotoISBN 0142196258 (0-14-219625-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild Westby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0142004103 (0-14-200410-3)
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Robertson Davies Man of Mythby Judith Shelton GrantISBN 0140114521 (0-14-011452-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles IIby Stephen CooteISBN 0312238339 (0-312-23833-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Saint-Exupery: A Biographyby Stacy SchiffISBN 0306807408 (0-306-80740-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixenby Errol TrzebinskiISBN 0226812871 (0-226-81287-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Simone De Beauvoir: A Life a Love Storyby Claude Francis, Fernande GontierISBN 0312023243 (0-312-02324-3)
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The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteleyby Benjamin HoffISBN 0140237208 (0-14-023720-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley'Book summary:[via]Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whitely captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1902, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful, funny, and wise, it was described by an admirer as "the revelation of the ...life of a feminine Peter Pan of the Oregon wildernessso innocent, so intimate, so haunting, that I should not know where in all literature to look for a counterpart."
But the diary soon fell into disgrace. Condemning it as an adult-written hoax, skeptics stirred a scandal that drove the book into obscurity and shattered the frail spirit of its author.
Discovering the diary by chance, bestselling author Benjamin Hoff set out to solve the longstanding mystery of its origin. His biography of Opal that accompanies the diary provides fascinating proof that the document is indeed authenticthe work of a magically gifted child, America's forgotten interpreter of nature.
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 0224616951 (0-224-61695-1)
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Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchellby Darden Asbury PyronISBN 0195052765 (0-19-505276-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouacby Ellis AmburnISBN 0312206771 (0-312-20677-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subterranean Kerouac : The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac'Book summary:At the heart of Jack Kerouac's hidden life is the conflict between his "homoerotically inclined life and the blustering masculinity" he felt compelled to demonstrate. As a youth in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac was a football hero, brash and rowdy, pursued by the local coeds. But his strongest emotions focused on an artistic high school friend, Sammy Sampas, whose physical advances Jack ultimately rejected and forever mourned. This failure to resolve his emotional and sexual identity set into motion Kerouac's two-headed monster of creativity and self-destruction.
Though his novels depict rampant sexual freedom and distinguish him as a stylistic innovator, Kerouac himself was reined in by the taboos and social constrictions of the 1930s and '40s. Friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and other beat originals helped him indulge the homosexual side of his nature. Yet the internal conflicts raged, and running along with them were Kerouac's Benzedrine and alcohol addictions.
While Amburn's biography is rich with the salacious adventures of hipsterism (trysts with Ginsberg between parked trucks in Greenwich Village; the frenetic cross-country trips immortalized in On the Road; the Kerouac Sex List, which tells exactly with whom and how many times), he takes a serious look at the twisted Kerouac psyche. Amburn has a unique vantage point as Kerouac's last editor, and we benefit from their friendship with the confidential details Kerouac supplied during the editing process. Kerouac often insisted that "every word I write is true," but Amburn readers discover a man tortured by the dueling sides of his own divided nature. --Joan Urban [via]
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This Is Orson Wellesby Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan RosenbaumISBN 030680834X (0-306-80834-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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A Treasury of Royal Scandalsby Michael FarquharISBN 0140280243 (0-14-028024-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Voltaire in Loveby Nancy MitfordISBN 0241112885 (0-241-11288-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poetby Charles OsborneISBN 0151942862 (0-15-194286-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Waldo Emersonby Gay Wilson AllenISBN 0140062785 (0-14-006278-5)
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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Meansby Marvin J. Wolf, Russell MeansISBN 0312147619 (0-312-14761-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Worst Journey in the Worldby Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Caroline AlexanderISBN 0143039385 (0-14-303938-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worst Journey in the World'Book summary:[via]The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrardthe youngest member of Scotts team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journeydraws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scotts legendary expedition. Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from starvation and brutal cold. It is through Cherrys insightful narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of the expedition are fully memorialized.
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