Biography

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAcross centuries of upheaval, persecution, and war, countless thousands have washed upon Britain's shores seeking sanctuary — and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Behind the Iron Curtain, where faith was treated as subversion and believers were...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the Iron Curtain, where literature was both weapon and contraband, one woman found herself at the centre of one...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the winter seasons between 1913 and 1916, two of the twentieth century's most towering literary figures — Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats —...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedSpanning nearly four decades of intimate correspondence, Letters 1895-1933 to Lady Cunard presents a vivid and deeply personal window into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn December 1948, a young American embassy clerk named Alexander Dolgun was snatched off the streets of Moscow by Soviet secret police,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most authoritative and incisive works of Russian historiography ever written, Richard Pipes presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of the Great Game — that shadowy contest of empires played out across the rooftop...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of two of history's most transformative movements, Eve and the New Jerusalem chronicles the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the early 1930s, Evelyn Waugh embarked on a journey through East Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Remote People chronicles that extraordinary adventure...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodOne of history's most formidable rulers, Peter the Great transformed a medieval Russian tsardom into a mighty empire through sheer force of will, vision, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the salons of Belle Époque France to the turbulent front lines of two World Wars, André Maurois's Memoirs: 1885–1967...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the windswept fields and tight-knit communities of rural Brittany, Pierre-Jakez Hélias grew up straddling two worlds — the ancient,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the school bell rang across the dusty paddocks of rural Australia, life in the country classroom...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodSome gaffes are too good to forget — and I Could Have Kicked Myself is a glorious monument to the most spectacular blunders, miscalculations, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a freshly minted Oxford-trained anthropologist is dropped into the remote hills of Cameroon with little more than a notebook, good intentions, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Behind the razor-sharp wit and darkly comic tales of Edwardian England stood a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every hard-boiled detective story lies the man who invented the genre — and Diane Johnson's The Life of Dashiell Hammett is the definitive portrait...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of one of America's most turbulent social debates stands William Faulkner, a literary giant whose complex and often contradictory pronouncements on race...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor a quarter of a century, the sleepy village of Ambridge has captivated British radio audiences with its rich tapestry of rural life, family...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Paint blotch on block, does not extend internally.Few American writers of the twentieth century have left as indelible a mark on Southern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the volatile heart of sixteenth-century France, one woman wielded more power than any crown could confer — Catherine de Medici, the...

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