Biography - Secondhand

Socialist Champion is a portrait of a man who prided himself on being both a gentlemen and a socialist. His tutbulant political career in England ended in 1894 when he...

The operatic life of the librettist for Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York....

In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...

The first full and authoritative biography of the father of gastronomy. MacDonogh not only chronicles BrillatAIs many pursuits, he also presents a fascinating picture of provincial France under the ancien...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED. Raised in Park Avenue...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . The definitive biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with an updated afterword detailing...

"Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack," writes London's "Literary Review, ""Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver...

The book titled The Passionate Nomad: The Journals of Isabelle Eberhardt by the author Isabelle Eberhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1948, Robert Craft would begin a unique friendship with Stravinsky that would last until the composer's death in 1971. This book tells the story of his "improbable life" before,...

France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...

The man who changed the course of modern France In 1981, Francois Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led...

The book titled Stalin's Prosecutor by the author Vaksberg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1954, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of...

With the imminent television adaptation of the Gormenghast trilogy and the reissuing of his books, interest in Mervyn Peake''s work has never been higher. This biography is the result of...

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

Tall and powerfully built, Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of conflicting insecurities and ambitions - a white Southerner who championed civil rights and a self-made rich man who declared...

The book titled Thursday's Child Has Far to Go: A Memoir of the Journeying Years by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stir--but then...

The wild ride of Chet Baker, the most romanticized icon in jazz, is thrillingly recounted in this first major biography ever.From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young...

The book titled Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart by the author Steven Bach. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams , his letters-more intimate and...

Seven years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorised life of this brilliant, but famously enigmatic, man. Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and...

Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in...

"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies

The book titled Andropov by the author Zhores A. Medvedev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major...

At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour....

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

Raymond Priestley was the first salaried Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. It was a time of great upheaval, as Australian universities reshaped and reasserted themselves after the Great Depression....

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...

This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...

The book titled Hunter: the Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson: The Strange by the author E. Jean Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century, made a unique contribution to public affairs and to Britain's cultural life. Drawing on an unrivalled knowledge of Keynes,...

The book titled Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold by the author Nigel Nicolson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by the author Anthony Heilbut. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Oscar Wilde by the author Richard Ellmann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker . Now writers...

Paris in the 1930s-melancholy, erotic, intensely politicized-provides the poetic beginning for this remarkable autobiography by one of America's most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the...

A publishing event! The first and definitive collection of letters (most of them previously unpublished) both from and to the incomparable Noel Coward, a unique and irresistible portrait of a...

Few writers have been - simultaneously - political hero, intellectual master, and literary giant. But Emile Zola (1840-1902) was: his monumental cycle of twenty novels extended the reach of fiction...

With his critically acclaimed acute eye, James Lord has created another series of inimitably spirited, witty, profoundly moving portraits. Haunting, mesmerizing, and endlessly entertaining, "Some Remarkable Men "reverberates with Lord's...

Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a...

The first book of Graham Greene's letters - the most intimate record we have of a life lived at the heart of modern history One of the undisputed masters of...

This gripping biography of the great Czech novelist, diarist and short story writer chronicles Kafka's entire (if tragically curtailed) life (1883-1924), but it focuses upon the writer's relationship to his...

From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays. For nearly four decades, David Sedaris...

The book titled Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Story of Martha Gellhorn by the author Carl Rollyson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...