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An insightful and compelling biography of celebrated French storyteller Guy de Maupassant.

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Katerina Bryant's debut Hysteria is an astounding hybrid memoir exploring chronic mental illness and the treatment of women's health throughout history. In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman, Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women's medical treatment.

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A fascinating and unprecedented insight into the mind and life of the creator of James Bond, from a contemporary and close friend.

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First publication of an index-card diary in which Nabokov recorded sixty-four dreams and subsequent daytime episodes, allowing the reader a glimpse of his innermost life.

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James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon--"Go Tell It on a Mountain," "Giovanni's Room," "Another Country," "The Fire Next Time," and "The Evidence of Things Not Seen"--he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction, and sexual difference.

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A critical biography of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Translation of: Kafka, die Jahre der Entscheidungen.

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Translation of: Kafka, die Jahre der Erkenntnis.

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An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.

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In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a

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In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a

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A conversation with beloved writer Barry Lopez about attentiveness, humility, and hope in a troubled natural world

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Hailed on its original publication as eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a mans life (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating new afterword.

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Part memoir, part manifesto, part history, We Are What We Read is not just about how education can place you back on the right side of the tracks. It is also a rallying cry for the importance of literature in a world where the arts are being squeezed out at every level and where book bans in schools and libraries have surged to record highs.

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In his radically new analysis of an extraordinary life, Damian Flanagan moves away from the stereotypical depiction of Mishima as a right-wing nationalist and aesthete and presents him as a man utterly obsessed with time - time-keeping devices and symbols - arguing that this compulsion was at the heart of the author's literature and life.

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An intimate life of Shakespeare and his age, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature

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Janet Morgans definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.

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A definitive biography of the author, now fully updated with a new introduction to mark 100 years of Agatha Christie publishing

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A fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, the woman who elevated food writing to a literary art.

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