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By: Peter Sabor
ISBN: 9780140436242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captures the changing times around her. She includes portraits such as the mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, and more.
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By: Alain Mabanckou
ISBN: 9781593766016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780141189888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features the letters of William S Burroughs that show the development of both the man and the writer, documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history.
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By: Pamela Newkirk
ISBN: 9780807001158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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By: Carl Van Doren
ISBN: 9780691627434
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Carl Van Doren
ISBN: 9780691653426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Lyman Henry Butterfield
ISBN: 9780691655901
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Lyman Henry Butterfield
ISBN: 9780691627359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Lyman Henry Butterfield
ISBN: 9780691655093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Lyman Henry Butterfield
ISBN: 9780691655918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Andre Aciman
ISBN: 9781565846074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: The New Press
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All of the authors have written works on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. This work includes five newly commissioned essays offering moving distallations of their most important thinking on these themes.
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By: Ned Rorem
ISBN: 9780306811067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Now in paperback: "One of the great diarists... [His works] delight, amuse, and enlarge our understanding of music and of life."-Boston Globe
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By: Marie Bader
ISBN: 9781350237759
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James Salter
ISBN: 9781582437262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Wayne Flynt
ISBN: 9781784757861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Jill Roe
ISBN: 9780732280932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Miles Franklin wrote the first of these letters at Brindabella in 1887. The last letter was written only 16 days before her death. As well as Miles Franklin's own witty and provocative correspondence, the selection includes letters from her life-long friends. This collection offers a rare insight into the mind and times of a brilliant woman.
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By: Meir Shalev
ISBN: 9780805212402
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2018
Publisher: Schocken Books
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A charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev s birth. Here we meet Shalev s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a const
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By: Nol Coward
ISBN: 9781408107584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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`In my time I have said some noteworthy and exceptionally memorable things' Noel Coward. Full of witicisms, bons mots and hidden gems from private papers, this compendium offers a fascinating insight into the mind of Noel Coward.
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By: Tony Benn
ISBN: 9780099634508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1989
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Presents a record of British politics as observed both from the heart of the Cabinet and the Labour Party. This title reveals Labour's experience of Opposition after the unexpected and shattering defeat of 1970.
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By: Michael Field
ISBN: 9780691208008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Colin Chambers
ISBN: 9781786826442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An inspiring collection of letters writtenby play agent Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) to her numerous clients.
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By: Dorie McCullough Lawson
ISBN: 9780767909044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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This elegantly designed volume of personal letters from famous Americans illuminates the rich history of some of this country's most storied families.
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By: Saul Bellow
ISBN: 9780143120469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Bellow was winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Including letters to William Faulkner, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, Martin Amis, and many others, this vast self-portrait-shows the influences at work in a seminal literary mind.
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By: Dashiell Hammett
ISBN: 9781582432106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: Counterpoint
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A selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the American writer of crime fiction. Here is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted; Hammett the student of politics, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; and Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman.
