Biography - Secondhand

Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family...

This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British Library...

Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he...

This delightful book recreates the busy, colorful world of a Catholic bishop and his flock from 1590-1620. Based upon the recently discovered daybook of Mathias Hovius, the book focuses not...

The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of...

George Gissing is ranked by some critics alongside Thomas Hardy and George Meredith as one of the three best novelists of his era, his books giving a wonderful insight into...

In 1979 Rees helped Andrew Boyle unmask Anthony Blunt, the fourth man, but by then Rees himself was dying of cancer. Was Rees himself actually a spy? The recent opening...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...

The book titled Selected Letters, 1940-77 by the author Vladimir Nabokov. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this wry, judiciously balanced, and thoroughly engaging book, Galya Diment explores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc Szeftel who, in the estimate...

The definitive, highly revealing biography of a great actor whose career spanned the twentieth century.Alec Guinness appeared in 77 films and 55 plays, winning acclaim for commanding roles such as...

The book titled Gentleman Spy: Life of Allen Dulles by the author Peter Grose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Unamerican Activities by the author Sally Belfrage. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

John Arlott was admired by millions for decades, for his cricket commentaries on BBC radio. This affectionate memoir by his son traces Arlott's life from its humble beginnings in Hampshire,...

Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can...

Poet George Barker was convinced his biography could never be written - "I've stirred the facts around too much". Fraser's biography offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and...

This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a...

Susana Walton tells the story of her life with William Walton to the time of his death in her arms in Ischia, Bay of Naples. She includes anecdotes and reminiscences,...

Virginia Woolf was an inventive, witty correspondent, whether commenting on a domestic crisis, politics, or the roving of the writer's mind. Edited and with an Introduction by Joanne Trautmann Banks;...

New York Times Bestseller "Anyone who has ever lost themselves in Monet's color-saturated gardens or swooned over Degas's dancers will enjoy this revealing group portrait of the artists who founded...

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...

The book titled Thomas Mann and His Family by the author Marcel Reich-Ranicki. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the...

The book titled Flutes of Autumn by the author Peter Levi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Jack Bond: Lancashire Lad, Lancashire Leader by the author Douglas Miller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Rockley Wilson: Remarkable Cricketer, Singular Man by the author Martin Howe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in...

James Watt is synonymous with the steam-engine, Promethean symbol of the Industrial Revolution. But what motivated him to re-invent steam? What convinced him that a simple idea - to give...

The book titled The Road from Coorain: Gift: An Australian Memoir by the author Jill K. Conway. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In the Robben Island prison register, Nelson Mandela was famously recorded as prisoner number 466/64. Number 468/64 was Ahmed Kathrada. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 in the infamous Rivonia...

The sole anchorman of ITN's News at Ten describes his rise from Radio Trinidad, via the BBC World Service, to his current position as international journalist and the guiding hand...

The book titled Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance by the author Mary-Lou Kohfeldt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This anthology of quotations is a selection of reflections about each year of life by a wide range of authors, including American and Continental writers, though without trying to do...

Twenty eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs...

Charts his up-bringing in the semi-rural slums of Montmartre, life under the Nazi rule of World War Two to his meeting with Django Rheinhardt and the emergence of Swing. His...

One of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was also a prolific and gifted writer. Besides producing diaries, short stories, dramas, reviews, and...

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, "The Orientalist" traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling...

The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Phillip Marlowe, revealing...

An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in...

Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material....

Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...

Traces the life of the influential British writer who paved the way for modernism, and discusses his ideas and their reception by his contemporaries.

The book titled Turnaround: A Memoir by the author Milos Forman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new biography of our 28th president is pithy and intelligent; it is also hurried. As with other titles in the Penguin Lives series, the match up of author and...

The book titled The Moscow Art Theatre Letters by the author Jean Benedetti. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece "Invisible Man." In 1953, Ellison's explosive story...

The celebrated French general and emperor Napoleon I was born in Ajaccio in Corsica in 1769. France had acquired Corsica only 15 months before his birth, and in his early...