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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew works in the English literary canon offer as intimate and authoritative a portrait of an age's greatest poets as Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingBefore jazz found its voice in Britain, one man was there helping it speak...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA rare and intimate window into the private world of one of the twentieth century's most controversial intellectuals, Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Behind every revolution in human understanding stands a solitary figure driven by curiosity — and few stories...

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...

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...

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...

Edition: 3rd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary figures of the twentieth century provoke as much fascination, reverence, and controversy as Vladimir Nabokov — and Andrew Field's VN:...

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,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew Australian literary figures led a life as richly contradictory and compellingly itinerant as Martin Boyd — and Brenda Niall's authoritative biography captures every...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of Western music are as electrifying and contradictory as Percy Grainger — the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Australian musical life embodied the transformative power of dedication and artistry quite like John Bishop, and Christopher Symons' biography chronicles the...

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,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat do Charles Baudelaire, Jules de Goncourt, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Alphonse Daudet have in common beyond their literary genius? According to...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Tsarist repression and revolutionary idealism stands Kondratiy Fyodorovich Ryleev — poet, conspirator, and martyr — whose short life burned...

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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: 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...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the smoky jazz clubs of Chicago to the grand stages of international concert halls, Every Day: The...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every great spy thriller lies a real-world figure more fascinating than fiction — and Maxwell Knight, the enigmatic MI5 spymaster who inspired Ian...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of nineteenth-century European politics stands Wilhelm Liebknecht — agitator, exile, and tireless architect of Germany's most consequential political movement....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: minor tear on dj. Few writers embodied the turbulence of their age as completely as Maxim Gorky —...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the Iron Curtain, one man dared to speak truth to power — and paid a devastating price. History's Carnival is the unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedOne of the most remarkable figures in the history of Western dance tells her own story in Come Dance With Me, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA firsthand account of one of cinema's most extraordinary and ill-fated adventures, With Eisenstein in Hollywood chronicles the...