Biography

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn 1968, the city of Newcastle upon Tyne was shaken to its core when eleven-year-old Mary Bell was convicted of the manslaughter...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of the radical Enlightenment stood William Godwin — philosopher, novelist, and anarchist thinker whose audacious ideas electrified late eighteenth-century Britain and whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWith a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, Mordecai Richler — one of Canada's most celebrated and provocative literary voices — presents a sweeping...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markOne of the most intimate and revealing documents in the English language, The Diary of Samuel Pepys transports readers directly into the heart...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Tears on spineIn the rolling hills of Scotland and the distant, dangerous mission fields of China, The Keys of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of empire and revolution, The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State 1917–1930 chronicles one of the most turbulent and consequential...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, no betrayal shook the Western world quite like that of Klaus Fuchs — a brilliant German-born physicist who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.From the drawing rooms of colonial Melbourne to the grand estates of Europe, Riders of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: tape marks on FEP, long tear on fold of jacket.When the world plunged into its second catastrophic conflict...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be French? Sanche de Gramont's The French: Portrait of a People is a sweeping, authoritative study of France and its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom one of Victorian literature's most versatile and celebrated voices comes Memories and Portraits, a rich collection of autobiographical and critical essays that draws...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Holocaust's darkest hour, Advocate for the Dead: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodIn the turbulent 1930s, a young American idealist named John Scott packed his bags and journeyed deep...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great institution lies a singular and extraordinary life — and few lives were as singular as that of Antonin Besse, the enigmatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of America's most paranoid decade, Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to grow up in the shadow of a titan — to call...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the single masterpiece that captivated a generation lies the tragically short life of Henri-Alban Fournier — known to the world as Alain-Fournier —...

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Edition: presumed first. Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Note: Worn boards with rubbed edges. Slight lean...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the turbulent aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, a new and untested political figure emerged across Eastern...

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Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives have burned as brightly — or as turbulently — as that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the sweeping plains and colonial drawing rooms of nineteenth-century Australia emerges a vivid portrait of a nation finding its...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of nationalism, democracy, and cultural identity stands Tomáš G. Masaryk — statesman, philosopher, and the founding father...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in modern intellectual history have reshaped our understanding of the human mind as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat happens when one brilliant literary mind turns its unflinching gaze upon another? The Company She Kept is a penetrating critical biography...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of Enlightenment idealism and imperial autocracy stands one of history's most fascinating paradoxes: a coterie of Russian moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent decades between the failed Decembrist uprising of 1825 and the dawn of the populist movement in 1870, a remarkable generation of...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every published word lies a battle fought in boardrooms, courtrooms, and committee halls — A Writer's Rights chronicles the formative two decades of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the vibrant, turbulent world of mid-twentieth-century New York, Alfred Kazin chronicles his life as a preeminent literary critic, writer, and intellectual in New...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOne of Melbourne's most storied institutions comes to life in Wesley College: The First Hundred Years, a richly...

Edition: rev ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the golden age of British popular fiction, three authors — Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and Sapper — conjured a world of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of Stalin's transformative grip on the Soviet Union, Maurice Hindus — one...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the crucible of the Second World War's Mediterranean theatre, a future British Prime Minister bore witness to some of history's most pivotal...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markBehind the austere, imperious gaze that defined one of Britain's most singular literary minds lies a life as dramatic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Spine yellowed with minimal wear on rear cover. Internally sound. From the front lines of World War...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the immortal prose of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm stood a man of fierce contradictions — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne woman's defiance against the most terrifying machinery of oppression the modern world has ever produced — Stalin's Great Purge — is...