Category: Biograghy / Literary

* Chicago Tribune "Fall literary preview: books you need to read now"* Vulture "The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall"* The Guardian "A best book of 2019"After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought -- to nest, to find home -- after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself.Informed by his experiences...
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Shakespeare: A Biography

By: Quennell, Peter

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Avon Books : January 1963

Seller ID: 421128

ISBN: B0026Q68C0

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Shakespeare: The Biography

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Nan A. Talese : October 2005

Seller ID: 443597

ISBN-13: 9780385511391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biography. Now, in Shakespeare: The Biography, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement. Young Adult.
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Oufkir, Malika

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Miramax : April 2002

Seller ID: 429954

ISBN-13: 9780786886302

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Born into a proud Berber family in 1953, the eldest daughter of the King of Morocco's closest aide, Malika Oufkir was adopted at the age of five by King Muhammad V to be brought up as the companion of his daughter, Princes Amina. When he died, his son Hassan II became King and took charge of rearing the two girls as well as his own children. Malika spent eleven years living at the court, in the seclusion of the harem, until she left the palace, at the age of 16, as one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom and tasted a couple of years of a heady jet-set lifestyle. On August 16th, 1972,...
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Story of Watchman Nee Against the Tide

By: Kinnear, Angus

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Tyndale House Pub : January 1981

Seller ID: 440220

ISBN-13: 9780842300452

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

String Too Short to Be Saved (Nonpareil Books, No. 5)

By: Hall, Donald

Price: $6.99

Publisher: David R Godine : September 1999

Seller ID: 474488

ISBN-13: 9780879232825

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a collection of stories diverse in subject, but sutured together by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned. But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things - a childhood, perhaps a culture. In an Epilogue written for...
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Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By: Winslow, Barbara

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Verso : July 2021

Seller ID: 444729

ISBN-13: 9781839761621

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked to parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women's concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour movement as central to her feminist politics. In this illuminating political biography, feminist historian Ba...
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The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats: consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth, the Trembling of the Veil, and Dramtis Personae

By: Yeats, William Butler

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Collier Books : January 1967

Seller ID: 410041

ISBN: B003XXET9Y

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Hidden Wordsworth

By: Johnston Ph.D, Kenneth R.

Price: $6.99

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2001

Seller ID: 433145

ISBN-13: 9780393321593

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, reading wear.
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The Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969

By: Woolf, Leonard

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 1989

Seller ID: 450996

ISBN-13: 9780156465236

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs.

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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

By: Schenkar, Joan

Price: $9.98

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : December 2009

Seller ID: 449709

ISBN-13: 9780312303754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train, " to her long, strange, self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. "The Talented Miss Highsmith" is the f...
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The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

By: Manguso, Sarah

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Picador : May 2009

Seller ID: 459068

ISBN-13: 9780312428440

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Spare and Unsparing Look at Affliction and Recovery that Heralds a Stunning New Voice The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep space, through which heavenly bodies fly forever. They fly until they change into new forms, simpler forms, with ever fewer qualities and increasingly beautiful names. There are names for things in spacetime that are nothing, for things that are less than nothing. White dwarfs, red giants, black holes, singularities. But even then, in their less-than-nothing state, they keep happening. At twenty-one, ...
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography

By: Zweig, Stefan

Price: $12.99

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : October 1964

Seller ID: 467381

ISBN-13: 9780803252240

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, light creases along spine and reading wear to edges.
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Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir

By: White, Michael

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Persea : March 2015

Seller ID: 430026

ISBN-13: 9780892554379

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A lyrical and intimate account of how a poet, in the midst of a bad divorce, finds consolation and grace through viewing the paintings of Vermeer, in six world cities. In the midst of a divorce (in which the custody of his young daughter is at stake) and over the course of a year, the poet Michael White, travels to Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, London, Washington, and New York to view the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, an artist obsessed with romance and the inner life. He is astounded by how consoling it is to look closely at Vermeer's women, at the artist's relationship to his subjects, and a...
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Truck: A Love Story (P.S.)

By: Perry, Michael

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial : March 2016

Seller ID: 443060

ISBN-13: 9780060571184

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"A touching and very funny account. . . . Thoroughly engaging."--New York TimesHilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. The result is a surprisingly tender testament to love."Part Bill Bryson, part Anne Lamott, with a skim of Larry the Cable Guy and Walt Whitman creeping around the edges."--Lincoln Journal Star"Perry takes each moment...
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Up from Slavery: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, and Composition History, Criticism:2nd (Second) edition

By: Washington, Booker T.

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Bantam Classic : January 1959

Seller ID: 412382

ISBN: B0012WXBBU

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Completely intact inside and out just a little dirty
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Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer

By: Dalsimer, Katherine

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Yale University Press : March 2002

Seller ID: 458326

ISBN-13: 9780300092080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as "sledge-hammer blows," beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her half-sister, father, and brother. Yet vulnerable as she was ("skinless" was her word) she began, through these years, to practice her art--and to discover how it could serve her. Ultimately, she came to feel that it was her "shock-receiving capacity" that had made her a writer.Astonishingly gifted from the start, Woolf learned to be attentive to the ...
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961

By: Reynolds, Nicholas

Price: $9.99

Publisher: William Morrow : February 2017

Seller ID: 463238

ISBN-13: 9780062440136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Clean copy, DJ intact, light shelf wear.
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Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

By: Taylor, Yuval

Price: $14.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : March 2019

Seller ID: 462718

ISBN-13: 9780393243918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

They were best friends. They were collaborators, literary gadflies, and champions of the common people. They were the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Langston Hughes, the author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "Let America Be America Again," first met in 1925, at a great gathering of black and white literati, and they fascinated each other. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote scores of loving letters. They even ha...
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Category: Biograghy / Literary

Rimbaud

Sailing the Sea of Dreams

Savage Gods

Shakespeare: A Biography

Shakespeare: The Biography

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club)

Story of Watchman Nee Against the Tide

String Too Short to Be Saved (Nonpareil Books, No. 5)

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats: consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth, the Trembling of the Veil, and Dramtis Personae

The Hidden Wordsworth

The Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir

The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography

Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir

Truck: A Love Story (P.S.)

Up from Slavery: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, and Composition History, Criticism:2nd (Second) edition

Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer

Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

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