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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a...
Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention
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...
A Simple Freedom: the Strong Mind of Robben Island Prisoner, No.
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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 Princess Diarist
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first...
Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London and
Captain Rees Howell Gronow was a dandy, a debtor, a duelist and a raconteur who lived the high life in Regency London and Paris. He was also a talented writer...
Born to Run
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these...
The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction,
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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...
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
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From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines...
Anthony Powell: A Life
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....
The Moscow Art Theatre Letters
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.
Ralph Ellison: a Biography
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...
Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
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In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one...
Byron: The Making of a Myth
Stephen Coote has written a biography of Lord Byron, focusing on the man behind the myth. Byron was an enigma in his own lifetime. Since his death the public's view...
Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson, born in the late Victorian age, scion of a privileged family, was a man of extraordinary talents. As a diplomat a glittering career beckoned - an Embassy certainly,...
Lawrence and the Women: The Intimate Life of D.H. Lawrence
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A unique exploration of acclaimed writer D.H. Lawrence's intimate relationships with women and men and how those relationships affected his work and his provocative theories of love. Feinstein's research and...
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
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The product of the author's lifetime, this powerful narrative, insterrsperses the author's analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present...
The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht
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Backed up by previously unpublished papers and interviews with Brecht's colleagues and many lovers, this biography argues that Brecht was not in fact the author of the plays which have...
Selected Letters: v. 2
The book titled Selected Letters: v. 2 by the author Marcel Proust. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Conversations With Myself
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Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his...
The Holy Barbarians
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of cultural journalism and social criticism, The Holy Barbarians chronicles the Beat Generation subculture of Venice West, California, presenting...
Slipstream
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping work of Australian literary fiction, Slipstream chronicles the life of a man shaped by the vast, unforgiving landscapes...
Doctor With Wings
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Unknown
The Green Mosaic: Memories Of New Guinea
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly evocative work of travel memoir and natural history, The Green Mosaic: Memories of New Guinea chronicles Eric C....
Settlers And Convicts: Recollections Of Sixteen Years' Labour In The Australian Backwoods
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA vivid and candid work of colonial memoir, Settlers and Convicts: Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods chronicles the...
Staying On Alone: Letters Of Alice B. Toklas
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and intimate work of epistolary nonfiction, Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas chronicles the final chapter...
John Ruskin: The Argument Of The Eye
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of art criticism and biography, John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye presents a compelling examination...
The Court Of Versailles: In The Reign Of Louis Xiv
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of historical non-fiction, this volume chronicles the dazzling and treacherous world of the French royal court...
Who, Me?: Forty Years Of Automobile History
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair , ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA rich and anecdotal work of automotive history, Who, Me?: Forty Years of Automobile History chronicles the sweeping transformation of the...
Lesbos: The Pagan Island
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA vivid work of travel writing and personal memoir, Lesbos: The Pagan Island chronicles Australian author Betty Roland's journey to the Greek...
Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Remainder markA richly detailed literary biography, William Wright's work chronicles the turbulent life of one of America's most celebrated and controversial...
Livingstone's River: A History Of The Zambezi Expedition 1858-1864
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA gripping work of historical narrative, Livingstone's River: A History of the Zambezi Expedition 1858-1864 chronicles one of...
A Generation Of Wrath: A Story Of Embattlement, Survival And Deliverance During The Holocaust Of World War Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA harrowing work of Holocaust memoir and historical narrative, A Generation of Wrath: A Story of Embattlement, Survival and Deliverance...
Statesman And Saint: Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, And The Politics Of Henry Viii
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of historical biography and Tudor political history, Statesman and Saint: Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and the...
Tiger In The Snow: The Life And Adventures Of A. F. Mummery
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA gripping work of mountaineering biography, Tiger in the Snow: The Life and Adventures of A....
How It Was
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping memoir by the fourth and final wife of Ernest Hemingway, How It Was chronicles the intimate details of...
Vn: The Life And Art Of Vladimir Nabokov
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of literary biography, VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov chronicles the extraordinary existence of one...
Exiles At Home: Australian Women Writers 1925-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Australian literary criticism and feminist scholarship, Exiles at Home chronicles the lives and careers of a...
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA towering achievement of historical literature, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire chronicles the trajectory of one of...
Saladin And The Fall Of The Kingdom Of Jerusalem
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of historical biography and medieval scholarship, Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem chronicles the life and...
The Search For The Niger
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA gripping work of historical narrative, The Search for the Niger chronicles the centuries-long quest by European explorers...
The Long Walk
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA gripping work of survival memoir and adventure, The Long Walk chronicles the extraordinary account of Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish...
The Wit Of Peter Ustinov
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA delightful celebration of one of the twentieth century's most brilliantly comic minds, this collection compiled by Dick...
Christopher Wren
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA richly detailed work of architectural biography, Christopher Wren by Martin S. Briggs chronicles the life and towering...
The Africans
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of mid-twentieth-century fiction rooted in the political and cultural upheaval of post-colonial Africa, The Africans by Naomi Mitchison...
Chaplin's Films: A Filmography
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA meticulous work of film scholarship, Chaplin's Films: A Filmography presents a comprehensive catalog of one of cinema's most legendary...
Historical Memoirs Of The Duc De Saint-Simon: A Shortened Version
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A landmark work of historical memoir and primary source literature, Historical Memoirs of...
The Psychoanalytic Revolution: Sigmund Freud's Life And Achievement
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark work of intellectual biography, The Psychoanalytic Revolution: Sigmund Freud's Life and Achievement...