Biography

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the bestselling author of "The Snow Geese" comes a mesmerizing tribute to an adored older brother. When William Fiennes was a small boy, his parents inherited an extraordinary home:...

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...

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...

In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: "Beeton's Book of Household Management." In this delightful, superbly researched biography,...

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 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 book titled Kingdom Come by the author Bernice Rubens. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

Although John Fowles's novels - among them The Magnus and the French Lueitenant's Woman - have enjoyed hugely critical and popular success around the world, little is known of Fowles...

The second volume in the Auden Studies Series, The Language of Learning and the Language of Love considers Auden primarily during the first decade of his literary career as a...

'I, the poet William Yeats, | With old mill boards and sea-green slates, | And smithy work from the Gort forge, | Restored this tower for my wife George; |...

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;...

The book titled Krishnamurti:the Years of Fulfilment: The Years of Fulfilment by the author Mary Lutyens. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century by the author Katie Hickman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

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...

'Siya's rise from humble beginnings to lifting that World Cup trophy is the stuff of fairytales.' MARCUS RASHFORD 'Siya Kolisi is a warrior on the field and an inspiration off...

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.

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.

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...

This very honest, frank and personal account of moving from city to country life, from a dynamic career producing documentaries to the hard labour of agriculture, has the potential to...

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...

Twenty-five years ago, a young musician and painter named Martmn Prechtel wandered through the brilliant landscapes of Mexico and Guatemala. Little did he know he was traveling toward a destiny...

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 book titled Leap by the author Terry Tempest Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

James Tiptree, Jr, burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stories. He redefined the genre with such classics as Houston, Houston,...

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...

Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2620 Seventeen books for the reader drawn to the long view of human history — from John Gowlett's archaeology of early man to...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2617 Twenty-one books spanning intellectual life at its most serious and wide-ranging — from Lévi-Strauss's elegy for the vanishing world of the Amazon...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2827 Nineteen titles from the golden age of serious Penguin publishing, spanning art history, sociology, architecture, politics, physics, music, mythology, and more. This...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2837 Twenty Pelicans and Penguins at their most serious and rewarding — the kind of box that was clearly assembled by someone who...

'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. ' Do...