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Albert Camus: A Lifeby Olivier Todd, Benjamin IvryISBN 0786707399 (0-7867-0739-9)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Camus: A Life'Book summary:Olivier Todd's biography of Albert Camus matches its subject's depth by portraying the man as well as the moralist. Born in Algeria and raised in poverty by an illiterate mother, Camus never forgot where he came from. He made his name in Nazi-occupied Paris--publicly as the author of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, covertly as a member of the Resistance and editor of its newspaper, Combat--but he longed for the North African sun of his youth. During the years of crisis when Algeria struggled to break free from France, Camus alienated both colonialists and revolutionaries by supporting full equality for Arabs but denouncing terrorism. "I believe in justice," he told an Algerian heckler at a 1957 meeting he addressed in Stockholm after winning the Nobel Prize. "But I will defend my mother before justice." It is this preference for the concrete over the abstract that makes Camus such an appealing thinker. Todd's biography, which offers the most fully human depiction yet, is equally engaging. [via]
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Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral Historyby David King DunawayISBN 0761990658 (0-7619-9065-8)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, a Biographyby Robert ThackerISBN 0771085141 (0-7710-8514-1)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Womanby Nuala O'Faolain, Nvala O'FaolainISBN 0786215062 (0-7862-1506-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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As For Sinclair Rossby David StouckISBN 0802043887 (0-8020-4388-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-Earthby Daniel GrottaISBN 0762409568 (0-7624-0956-8)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglasby Douglas MurrayISBN 0786887702 (0-7868-8770-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas'Book summary:Almost everyone knows what Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas meant by "the Love that dare not speak its name"--but what happened after that name was dragged into court? In Oscar Wilde's case, his affair with Douglas, that minor poet and major pretty boy, was as neatly resolved as the Greek tragedy it resembled. Just three years after his release from prison on charges of "gross indecency," Wilde died broken, impoverished, and alone in a Parisian hotel. But Bosie himself lived on for nearly 45 contentious years after Wilde's death: an entire lifetime, in effect, during which he married, converted to Catholicism, conducted an epic feud with Wilde's literary executor, Robert Ross, and renounced everything about his former life, including Wilde himself.
In Bosie, Douglas Murray has used previously unavailable letters and manuscripts to construct a nuanced portrait of the aesthetes' golden boy, including his second life as a devoutly undecadent squire. Born into an ancient family with a memorably lunatic streak, Lord Douglas as a young man was charming, dissolute, and almost preternaturally handsome. (Jude Law played him in the 1998 film Wilde, and the resemblance is uncanny.) Regrettably, his gift for scandal often overshadowed his other talents; Murray for one is convinced that Douglas was one of the great English poets of his time, a master of the sonnet form who has been shamefully neglected by scholars and readers alike. Here, then, is the real tragedy: if Douglas had lived less he might have been remembered more.
Yet Murray doesn't mince words about the nastier sides of Douglas's nature either: Bosie was a snob, a raving anti-Semite, and like his unbalanced father, prone to destructive rages. One might well say, as James Agate did about Douglas's Autobiography, that his life story is "a record of some pretty good quarrelling." That's characteristic English understatement for you: Douglas seems to have spent much of his life in court, either suing or being sued for libel. Wilde's trial set a pattern Bosie seemed obliged to repeat until he himself was sent to jail after yet another libel charge (instigated by Winston Churchill, of all people) finally stuck. Wormwood Scrubs in the 1920s was no picnic, and Douglas emerged a humbled man; towards the end of his life, he even achieved a measure of reconciliation with his younger self. Murray skillfully conveys the pathos of these final years--like Wilde's, lonely and poverty-stricken, but unlike Wilde's, largely forgotten. This groundbreaking biography does much to correct that historical oversight, and in doing so, provides a fascinating account of one of poetry's most complex personalities. --Mary Park [via]
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C. S. Lewis: Images of His Worldby Clyde S. Kilby, Douglas GilbertISBN 0802828000 (0-8028-2800-0)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'C. S. Lewis: Images of His World'Book summary:This reissue of a treasured classic offers a beautiful window into the people and places that shaped the life of beloved author, scholar, and apologist C. S. Lewis. In photographs and text (much of it in Lewis's own words), Douglas Gilbert and Clyde S. Kilby introduce us to such memorable friends as J. R. R. Tolkien and transport us to such magical places as the deer park outside Lewis's rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford. We also meet Lewis as a talented and brilliant child in Belfast, captivated by the myths and legends of the North, already writing and illustrating imaginative stories and poems at a young age. While the book includes an essay tracing Lewis's struggle to find faith and a chronology of his life, it is not a biography per se but rather a personal introduction, a composite portrait of a fascinating individual and the world in which he lived. Attractively laid out in a fresh new format, this volume will be prized both by longtime fans of Lewis and by those encountering him for the first time. [via]
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C. S. Lewis:Images of His World: Images of His Worldby Clyde S. Kilby, J. RinzemaISBN 0802815456 (0-8028-1545-6)
Hardcover, W. B. Eerdmans Pub Co
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Capote: A Biographyby Gerald ClarkeISBN 0786716614 (0-7867-1661-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Carlo Gozzi: A Life in 18th Century Venetian Theatre, an Afterlife in Operaby John Louis DiGaetaniISBN 0786400773 (0-7864-0077-3)
Hardcover, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronageby Brian W. DippleISBN 0803216831 (0-8032-1683-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Charles Dickensby Jane SmileyISBN 0754074234 (0-7540-7423-4)
Hardcover, Chivers
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The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraftby Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph Martin WardleISBN 0801411645 (0-8014-1164-5)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Daniel Defoe: His Lifeby Paula R. BackscheiderISBN 0801845122 (0-8018-4512-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf And Vita Sackville-westby Karyn Z. SprolesISBN 0802094023 (0-8020-9402-3)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Dickens: A Biographyby Fred KaplanISBN 0801860180 (0-8018-6018-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelistsby Daniel PoolISBN 0788193147 (0-7881-9314-7)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dickby Lawrence SutinISBN 0786716231 (0-7867-1623-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Dust Tracks on a Road: The Restored Text Established by the Library of Americaby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0783883242 (0-7838-8324-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Ellen Glasgow: A Biographyby Susan GoodmanISBN 0801873142 (0-8018-7314-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Storyby Gerald Murphy, Amanda Vaill, Sara MurphyISBN 0767903706 (0-7679-0370-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story'Book summary:Gerald and Sara Murphy were the golden couple of the Lost Generation. Born to wealth and privilege, they fled the stuffy confines of upper-class America to reinvent themselves in France as legendary party givers and enthusiastic participants in the modernist revolution of the 1920s. He became an important painter; she made everyday life a work of art. Their friends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos all based fictional characters on the Murphys; Picasso painted them; and Calvin Tomkins rekindled their glamour for a younger generation in his affectionate 1971 portrait, Living Well Is the Best Revenge. Amanda Vaill's vivid new biography builds on Tomkins's work to provide a full-length account of the Murphys' remarkable life together.
As well as good times, that life included suffering endured with great courage. The Murphys' teenage sons died within two years of each other in the mid-1930s--one suddenly, one after a long battle with tuberculosis--and the Depression forced Gerald to resume the uncongenial work of managing his family's business. Vaill's sensitive rendering reveals the moral substance that enabled this stylish couple to survive heartbreak. But it's her marvelous evocation of those magical expatriate years that lingers in the memory. The wit and imaginative panache with which the Murphys lived sparkles again, recapturing a splendid historical moment. As Sara later said, "It was like a great fair, and everybody was so young." --Wendy Smith [via]
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blakeby Northrop Frye, Nicholas HalmiISBN 0802089836 (0-8020-8983-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake'Book summary:Though it was written in the 1940s, Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry is arguably still the most comprehensive--and comprehensible--book on William Blake. Despite the bewildering complexity of much of the work of this 18th century "visionary" poet and painter, Blake remains perennially popular. And though Frye warns against assuming that any poet writes "with one eye on his own time and another confidently winking at ours," he insists nonetheless that Blake's poetic methods and ideas remain relevant, indeed revelatory. "What Blake demonstrates is the sanity of genius and the madness of the commonplace mind, and it is here that he has something to say to the 20th century, with its interest in the arts of neurosis and the politics of paranoia."
Frye illuminates in the course of the book's 12 chapters the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic dimensions of Blake's thought and work (excluding his visual art). This is complemented by a roughly chronological commentary on the poet's 50-year literary oeuvre--from early works like "All Religions Are One," and the deceptively simple "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," to late encyclopedic epics like "Jerusalem." Though the coherence of Frye's account might seem a little forced to the (post)modern reader, his explanations and speculations provide invaluable critical insight while still leaving readers plenty of opportunity for independent discovery. Blending judiciously deployed erudition and an infectious passion for his subject, Frye insists that reading Blake on his own terms--which is precisely what Fearful Symmetry tries to do--"is only the beginning of a complete revolution in one's reading of all poetry." --Russell Prather [via]
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Flannery O'Connorby Harold Fickett, Douglas R. GilbertISBN 0802801870 (0-8028-0187-0)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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George Eliot: A Biographyby Frederick KarlISBN 0756754526 (0-7567-5452-6)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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George Macdonald: A Biography Of Scotland's Beloved Storytellerby Michael PhillipsISBN 0764200348 (0-7642-0034-8)
Softcover, Bethany House Pub
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Gerald Durrellby Douglas BottingISBN 0786707968 (0-7867-0796-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography'Book summary:Although his work is not widely read today, Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) was among the world's most popular naturalists in the 1950s and early '60s. He traveled to then-remote places such as Siberia, Cameroon, Tierra del Fuego, and Mauritius in search of odd zoological specimens and reported his travels in books like The Whispering Land and My Family and Other Animals. In the first full-length biography devoted to Durrell, Douglas Botting writes of his passage from gifted child amateur to scientifically trained professional. That passage was inspired in part by Gerald's older (and more famous) brother, the novelist and memoirist Lawrence Durrell, who gave Gerald a copy of Jean-Henri Fabre's classic Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist and encouraged his younger brother to follow his dream of living and working in the wild. Gerald Durrell, as Botting shows, went on to make signal contributions as a conservationist who founded the Jersey Zoo and other organizations devoted to protecting endangered species by breeding them in captivity and then reintroducing them into their native habitats. (Among those species were the Siberian ferret, highland gorilla, snow leopard, bespectacled bear, and golden lion tamarin.) Botting's well-written biography will be of interest not only to admirers of Durrell's work but also to students of the environmentalist and conservationist movements. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Goethe: The History of a Man 1928by Emil Ludwig, Ethel Colburn MayneISBN 0766144852 (0-7661-4485-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe: The History of a Man 1928'Book summary:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had neither a happy nor harmonious nature, but one in the highest degree enigmatic, that he was neither a Don Juan nor a sycophant of princes, that as an observer and sage, he was no less great than as a poet. This book displays a slow-moving panorama of the landscapes of his soul. The reader will see with admiration how, for that strenuous nature, work was never the aim of life, but only one of the means whereby to keep one's self alive. This book shows his slow spontaneous evolution as the reward of his active patience. [via]
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The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burkeby Conor Cruise O'BrienISBN 0749397217 (0-7493-9721-7)
Hardcover, Minerva
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Hawthorne In Concordby Philip McFarlandISBN 0802142052 (0-8021-4205-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Henry James : The Imagination of Genius, a Biographyby Fred KaplanISBN 080186271X (0-8018-6271-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The House Of Mitfordby Jonathan Guinness, Catherine GuinnessISBN 0753818035 (0-7538-1803-5)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Blooms Guides)by Harold BloomISBN 0791077683 (0-7910-7768-3)
Softcover, Facts on File
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An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowlesby Christopher Sawyer-LaucannoISBN 0802136001 (0-8021-3600-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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J. B. Priestleyby Dulcie GrayISBN 0750917938 (0-7509-1793-8)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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J.G. Farrell: The Making of a Writerby Lavinia GreacenISBN 0747551901 (0-7475-5190-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earthby Daniel GrottaISBN 0762413379 (0-7624-1337-9)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Jane Austen Among Womenby Deborah KaplanISBN 0801849705 (0-8018-4970-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Jane Kenyon: A Literary Lifeby John H. TimmermanISBN 0802863264 (0-8028-6326-4)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life'Book summary:It is a testament to the enduring power andbeauty of Jane Kenyon's poetry that many people even those not particularly interested inpoetry know her work. What forces andinfluences shaped Kenyon's work? And whatshaped her as a person and a poet? These arethe questions John Timmerman seeks to answerin "Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life.
In the opening chapters Timmerman gives avivid portrait of Kenyon, one made possible bythe use of previously unpublished journals, personalpapers, and the recollections of her husband, the poet Donald Hall. Timmerman enriches thisdramatic portrait by exploring, volume by volume, the form and substance of Kenyon's work.
By frequently examining the multiple draftsthat Kenyon wrote in the process of reaching afinished poem, Timmerman reveals how she refinedideas, images, and language until a poemwas honed to its essence. She was especially interestedin the "luminous particular, " the arrestingimage that would focus a poem. She also tookcare to use simple, grounded language andnatural objects and events often drawing onand reflecting on the life she lived at Eagle PondFarm in rural New Hampshire.
Throughout her life Kenyon struggled withdepression, but she never let it define her or herwork. She also struggled with her faith almostconstantly, but she was able to write poems ofgreat beauty and spiritual consolation. Yet Kenyonwas cut down in the prime of her writing life byleukemia, and Timmerman ends the volume byexploring Hall's mourning of her death in"Without, a powerful collection of poems. Thisfull-orbed, often moving study of Kenyon's lifeshows why her literary voice continues to touchreaders with its beauty, grace, andpower.
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Jerzy Kosinski: A Biographyby James Park SloanISBN 0788153250 (0-7881-5325-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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John DOS Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odysseyby Townsend LudingtonISBN 0786705272 (0-7867-0527-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Journals: Early Fifties Early Sixtiesby Allen GinsbergISBN 0802133479 (0-8021-3347-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LMby LMISBN 0800844475 (0-8008-4447-5)
Hardcover, Taplinger Pub Co
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Lewis Carroll: A Biographyby Donald Serrell ThomasISBN 0760712328 (0-7607-1232-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Life Sentence: A Biography of Herman Charles Bosmanby Stephen GrayISBN 079814484X (0-7981-4484-X)
Softcover, Human & Rousseau
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The Lives of Doctor John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert and Doctor Robert Sandersonby Izaak WaltonISBN 0766150739 (0-7661-5073-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing up with Alice Munroby Sheila MunroISBN 0771065124 (0-7710-6512-4)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biographyby Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, Ken BurnsISBN 0756783801 (0-7567-8380-1)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Mark Twain's Americaby Bernard Augustine De Voto, M. J. GallagherISBN 0803266073 (0-8032-6607-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Master Of Adventure: The Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughsby Richard A. LupoffISBN 0803280300 (0-8032-8030-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Of Adventure: The Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughs'Book summary:So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earths core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain all that you will ever want to know about the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs.Richard A. Lupoff, the respected critic and writer who helped spark a Burroughs revival in the 1960s, reveals fascinating details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan. Featured here are outlines of all of Burroughss major novels, with descriptions of how they were each written and their respective sources of inspiration. This Bison Books edition includes a new foreword by fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, a new introduction by the author, a final chapter by Phillip R. Burger, as well as corrected text and an updated bibliography.[via]More editions of Master Of Adventure: The Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughs:
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Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Harold BloomISBN 0791036669 (0-7910-3666-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'Book summary:Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings accomplishes a controlled poignance in representing a portrait of the young artist as a black woman. Her novel is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Timesby James R. MellowISBN 080185900X (0-8018-5900-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Winner of the 1983 National Book Award, James R. Mellow's magisterial biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne places America's first great writer in the midst of the literary and cultural turmoil of the early republic. Mellow draws on Hawthorne's letters and notebooks, as well as on perceptive readings of his fiction in recreating the details of Hawthorne's life: the long apprenticeship of the reclusive young author, his romantic courtship of Sophia Peabody, and his travels to Europe at the height of his literary career.
More fascinating still is Mellow's portrayal of Hawthorne's stimulating, complicated relationships with his fellow pioneers in the creation of a uniquely American literature -- Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Louisa May Alcott. Hawthorne was also a lifelong friend of President Franklin Pierce, and Mellow follows the fortunes of Hawthorne's political career which brought the writer into contact with the era's great politicians -- Daniel Webster, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, and Abraham Lincoln. An unparalleled panorama of nineteenth-century American intellectual life, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times convincingly traces Hawthorne's literary concerns -- the unspeakable secret guilt, the fall of man, the yearning for a lost paradise -- to the events of his enigmatic life.
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Northrop Frye: Anatomy of His Criticismby A. C. HamiltonISBN 0802069053 (0-8020-6905-3)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Off to the Side: A Memoirby Jim HarrisonISBN 0802140300 (0-8021-4030-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Off to the Side: A Memoir'Book summary:Rarely does one encounter a memoir so filled with the details of a life lived. Whether recalling bits of his past as a depressed child, manual laborer, Hollywood screenwriter, aspiring poet, novelist, or alcoholic husband, Jim Harrison pauses to analyze these moments--the cause and effect--and the choices that have made him who he is. Loosely divided into chapters, Off to the Side is somewhat rambling, and Harrison's opinions and conclusions occasionally remain obscure ("nearly everything you hear about Mexicans in the great north is utterly untrue")--but, to the benefit of readers, Harrison is never at a loss for ideas.
The solace Harrison finds in the natural world is most compelling, and it could be said he, too, shares Frost's "lover's quarrel with the world." After losing an eye at an early age and sinking into melancholy, Harrison's father advised that "curiosity will get you through hard times when nothing else will. Your curiosity had to be strong enough to lift you out of your self-sunken mudbath, the violent mixture of hormones, injuries, melancholy, and dreams of a future you not only couldn't touch but could scarcely see." These words were not lost on Harrison. With "no expertise outside of [his] own imagination" Harrison plays to his strengths in Off to the Side by setting down the events, experiences, thoughts, and feelings that have shaped his quite literate, truly American life. --Michael Ferch [via]
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On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardnerby Susan ThorntonISBN 0786707747 (0-7867-0774-7)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Oscar and Bosie: A Fatal Passionby Trevor FisherISBN 0750924594 (0-7509-2459-4)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoirby A. E. HotchnerISBN 0786705922 (0-7867-0592-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir'Book summary:First published in 1966, this adulatory memoir made news by revealing that Ernest Hemingway's 1961 death was a suicide. It also provided the mythmaking, Nobel Prize-winning author with an opportunity to promulgate his preferred public persona from beyond the grave. Chronicling their friendship over the final 14 years of Hemingway's life, A.E. Hotchner vividly captured the writer's appeal as a man and his genius as a storyteller in extensive direct quotes. He draws from contemporary notes, tape recordings, and (he reveals in the foreword to this edition published for the Hemingway centennial) disguised excerpts from personal letters that Hemingway's widow, Mary, refused him permission to use. In conversation, Hemingway sounds like one of his own fictional heroes: terse, witty, profane, manly. Hotchner, in his mid-20s when they first met in 1948 and, he freely admits, "struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe," seldom evaluates either the veracity of or the motivations behind the writer's anecdotes. He makes no claim to be objective, which adds to the emotional force of the painful final chapters showing a desolate, depressed Hemingway convinced he could no longer write. By no means the whole truth, Hotchner's loving portrait shows Hemingway to readers as he wanted to be seen and as his most ardent admirers saw him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poetby Jimmy Santiago BacaISBN 0802139086 (0-8021-3908-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Proust: A Biographyby Ronald HaymanISBN 0749399023 (0-7493-9902-3)
Hardcover, Minerva
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Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurberby Neil A. GrauerISBN 0803270569 (0-8032-7056-9)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber'Book summary:One of the great American humorists of this century, James Thurber is still read and cherished by many readers more than thirty years after his death. He is most famous for the hilarious, often bittersweet stories that he published in the 1930s and 1940s in the New Yorker. He was also a brilliant cartoonist whose unique drawings were an eagerly awaited feature in Harold Rosss New Yorker and in Thurbers books.[via]This biography is a book much in the spirit of Thurber himself. Readable, anecdotal, and often delightfully funny, Remember Laughter will be cherished by all fans of Thurber.
Yet Neil A. Grauer by no means sentimentalizes Thurber. He addresses serious, and often disturbing, features of Thurbers life while highlighting Thurbers courage, inexhaustible humor, and unique literary and artistic talents. The result is a biography that both celebrates Thurbers genius and shrewdly appraises his qualities as a man.
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Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City And the Making of American Literatureby Bryan WatermanISBN 0801885663 (0-8018-8566-3)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Road to Duneby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian HerbertISBN 0765353709 (0-7653-5370-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Dune'Book summary:Including never-before-published chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah, original stories, and a new short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson[via]
Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time.
Herein, the world's millions of Dune fans can now read---at long last---the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article "They Stopped the Moving Sands," Herbert's original inspiration for Dune.
The Road to Dune features newly discovered papers and manuscripts of Frank Herbert, and also "Spice Planet," an original sixty-thousand-word short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert.
The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf.More editions of The Road to Dune:
Rudyard Kipling: A Lifeby Harry RickettsISBN 0786708301 (0-7867-0830-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Screaming with Joy : The Life of Allen Ginsbergby Graham CaveneyISBN 0767902785 (0-7679-0278-5)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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Shakespeare and Companyby Sylvia BeachISBN 0803260970 (0-8032-6097-0)
Softcover, Bison Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare and Company'Book summary:Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, D. H. Lawrence, and others already famous or soon to be.In his introduction to this new edition, James Laughlin recalls his friendship with Sylvia Beach. Like her bookstore, his publishing house, New Directions, is considered a cultural touchstone.[via]More editions of Shakespeare and Company:
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Sheridan Le Fanuby W.J. Mc CormackISBN 0750914890 (0-7509-1489-0)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sheridan Le Fanu'Book summary:A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The Wyvern Mystery.
"This excellent study...is far more than a revelation of Le Fanu, though this is incidentally provided in a discriminating and scholarly way...Dr. McCormack illuminates the more private and tortured universe of Le Fanu himself". -- Times Literary Supplement [via]
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Sir Vidia's Shadowby Paul TherouxISBN 0771085060 (0-7710-8506-0)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Stendhalby Johnathan KeatesISBN 0786705450 (0-7867-0545-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Sunflower to the Sunby Valerie RosenbergISBN 0798107111 (0-7981-0711-1)
Hardcover, Human & Rousseau
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeby C. S. LewisISBN 0802725368 (0-8027-2536-8)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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Thackeray: A Writer's Lifeby Catherine PetersISBN 0750923067 (0-7509-2306-7)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Thackeray: The Life of a Literary Manby D.J. TaylorISBN 0786709103 (0-7867-0910-3)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Thomas Carlyle: A Biographyby Fred KaplanISBN 080141508X (0-8014-1508-X)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Ringsby Lin CarterISBN 0765307200 (0-7653-0720-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Tolstoyby Henri Troyat, Nancy AmphouxISBN 0802137687 (0-8021-3768-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVotoby Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0803292848 (0-8032-9284-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Voltaire In Exile: The Last Years, 1753-78by Ian DavidsonISBN 0802117910 (0-8021-1791-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Wilkie Collinsby Julian ThompsonISBN 078670134X (0-7867-0134-X)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh An Autobiographyby Auberon WaughISBN 0786706392 (0-7867-0639-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journeyby Willa CatherISBN 0803263333 (0-8032-6333-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolutionby Ann Charters, Brenda Knight, Anne WaldmanISBN 075677988X (0-7567-7988-X)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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