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Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	Charles Dickens A Literary Life Literary Lives Grahame Smith Palgrave Macmillan This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, Second Edition Literary Lives Linda Wagner-Martin Palgrave Macmillan Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life examines the way Plath made herself into a writer. Close analysis of Plath's reading and apprenticeship writing both in fiction...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Rudyard Kipling A Literary Life Literary Lives Phillip Mallett Palgrave Macmillan Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers. Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and...

Hardcover : $109.00 Buy	George Herbert A Literary Life Literary Lives Cristina Malcolmson Palgrave Macmillan This volume replaces the traditional image of George Herbert as meditative recluse with a portrait of the poet as engaged throughout his life with the...

Hardcover : $106.00 Buy	Graham Greene A Literary Life Literary Lives Neil Sinyard Palgrave Macmillan This volume explores Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that...

Hardcover : $45.00 Buy	Dreams and Destinies Marguerite Yourcenar, Translated by Donald Flanell Friedman Palgrave Macmillan The final untranslated work of Marguerite Yourcenar available for the first time in English.

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The Berlin Years

Norman Page Palgrave Macmillan

A unique biography of two literary giants and the city that was to change their lives.

Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Gay Men's Biography

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Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	The Brothers Grimm From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World, Second Edition Jack Zipes Palgrave Macmillan Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of the more astute critics of fairy tales, explores the...

Hardcover : $109.00 Buy	F. Scott Fitzgerald A Literary Life Literary Lives Andrew Hook Palgrave Macmillan Often seen as a mirroring the contemporary movement of American history itself, F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary life was a roller-coaster ride from early...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Macmillan A Publishing Tradition from 1843 Elizabeth James Palgrave Macmillan For over 150 years, since its founding in 1843, Macmillan has been at the heart of British publishing. This collection of essays, representing recent research...

Hardcover : $89.95 Buy	Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life Literary Lives Linda Wagner-Martin Palgrave Macmillan By examining the works and life of Sylvia Plath, Linda Wagner-Martin achieves to make the story of her growth into a consummate artist both dramatic and...

Hardcover : $154.00 Buy	A Bernard Shaw Chronology Author Chronologies Series A. M. Gibbs Palgrave Macmillan A. M. Gibbs provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the life, career, and associations of one of the most significant and influential literary...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	Charles Dickens Critical Issues Lyn Pykett Palgrave Macmillan This wide-ranging book looks at the author as a Victorian 'man of letters', and explores his cultural and critical impact, both on the definition of the novel...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Elizabeth Gaskell A Literary Life Literary Lives Shirley Foster Palgrave Macmillan This literary biographical study examines the life and works of the mid-Victorian woman novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, whose popularity is now well established....

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Katherine Mansfield A Literary Life Literary Lives Angela Smith Palgrave Macmillan In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: "I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves--to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as...

Hardcover : $68.00 Buy	My Other Family An Artist-Wife in Singapore, 1946-48 Patricia Morley I.B. Tauris Patricia Morley joined her husband, who was an officer in the Colonial Service, in Singapore in 1946, and as a professional portrait and sculptor began a...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	The Philip Larkin I Knew Maeve Brennan Manchester University Press The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author’s close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Lermontov Tragedy in the Caucasus Laurence Kelly Tauris Parke Paperbacks This is the best and most authoritative biography of Lermontov in English.

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Comrade Heart A Life of Randall Swingler Andy Croft Manchester University Press This is the extraordinary story of the English poet Randall Swingler, godson of the Archbishop of Canterbury, communist, librettist, publisher, propagandist,...

Trade Paperback : $44.00 Buy	The Life and Work of Günter Grass Literature, History, Politics Julian Preece Palgrave Macmillan This book traces the career of the most widely read and influential German novelist in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows in particular how his...

Hardcover : $110.00 Buy	A Samuel Beckett Chronology Author Chronologies Series John Pilling Palgrave Macmillan The most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work.

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	A Katherine Mansfield Chronology Author Chronologies Series Roger Norburn Palgrave Macmillan Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand`s most famous author and was arguably the finest short-story writer of her day. This chronology provides a synopsis of her...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Elizabeth Gaskell, 2nd Editioin A Portrait in Letters Edited by J. A. V. Chapple & John Geoffrey Sharps Manchester University Press Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a vivacious interest in all that was...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Rabindranath Tagore The Myriad-Minded Man Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson Tauris Parke Paperbacks Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer, traveller, political commentator and Asia’s first Nobel...

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