{"product_id":"secondhand-literary-history-biography-bargain-book-box-sp2897","title":"Secondhand Literary History \u0026 Biography Bargain Book Box SP2897","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Literary History \u0026amp; Biography Bargain Book Box SP2897\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePatrick White's self-portrait and David Marr's life of him — two Patrick Whites in one box — alongside Roy Strong's diaries, Eyre and Wright on British theatre, and Donleavy on the making of The Ginger Man. A box for readers who want the inside view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eScenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003 — the second volume of Roy Strong's witty, sharp-tongued diaries of cultural life, art world politics, and his beloved garden.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMy Strange Friend — David Martin (Picador) — a memoir of friendship and the twentieth century's darker passages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eJohn Shaw Neilson: Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence — ed. Cliff Hanna (UQP) — a comprehensive gathering of Australia's most lyrical and elusive poet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDefoe to the Victorians: Two Centuries of the English Novel — David Skilton — a critical survey of the English novel from its emergence to the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eStorytime — Jane Sullivan — Sullivan's engaging exploration of the reading life and what books do to the people who love them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe English: A Portrait of a People — Jeremy Paxman (Penguin) — Paxman's sharp, entertaining, and often exasperated examination of English identity and national character.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton — Peter Levi — a literary biographer's vivid account of Milton's life, faith, and creative struggle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books — an anthology of essays by contemporary American novelists on the fate of literary fiction in the digital age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Necessary Jungle: Literature and Excess — David Brooks — a collection of essays on writers who pushed against limits: de Sade, Bataille, Artaud, and others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Literary Companion: India — Bruce Palling — a guide to the literature and literary culture of the subcontinent, from the classical to the contemporary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Ession — Peter Fitzpatrick — the story of Australia's first professional theatre company and the couple who founded it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFlesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Devolution — Rolf Hellebust — a scholarly study of Soviet literary culture and the transformation of the human body in propaganda and fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFlaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait — Patrick White — White's memoir, unsparing and magnificent, from his Australian childhood to his Nobel Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePatrick White: A Life — David Marr — the definitive biography of Australia's greatest novelist, exhaustive and brilliantly written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eChanging Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century — Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright — a major survey of British drama across the century, companion to the BBC television series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAmis \u0026amp; Son: Two Literary Generations — Neil Powell — a dual biography of Kingsley and Martin Amis, and what passes between fathers and sons in literary families.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe History of the Ginger Man: An Autobiography — J.P. Donleavy — Donleavy's account of how his great novel was written, published, banned, and fought over in the courts for decades.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAll the World's a Stage — Ronald Harwood — Harwood's history of actors, acting, and the theatre from the ancient world to the present day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eCrux: The Letters of James Dickey — ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman — the selected letters of the American poet and novelist, covering his creative life from the 1940s onward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePatrick White's self-portrait and David Marr's life of him — two Patrick Whites in one box — alongside Roy Strong's diaries, Eyre and Wright on British theatre, and Donleavy on the making of The Ginger Man. A box for readers who want the inside view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\" class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eScenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003 — the second volume of Roy Strong's witty, sharp-tongued diaries of cultural life, art world politics, and his beloved garden.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eMy Strange Friend — David Martin (Picador) — a memoir of friendship and the twentieth century's darker passages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eJohn Shaw Neilson: Poetry, Autobiography and Correspondence — ed. Cliff Hanna (UQP) — a comprehensive gathering of Australia's most lyrical and elusive poet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDefoe to the Victorians: Two Centuries of the English Novel — David Skilton — a critical survey of the English novel from its emergence to the late nineteenth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eStorytime — Jane Sullivan — Sullivan's engaging exploration of the reading life and what books do to the people who love them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe English: A Portrait of a People — Jeremy Paxman (Penguin) — Paxman's sharp, entertaining, and often exasperated examination of English identity and national character.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eEden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton — Peter Levi — a literary biographer's vivid account of Milton's life, faith, and creative struggle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books — an anthology of essays by contemporary American novelists on the fate of literary fiction in the digital age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe Necessary Jungle: Literature and Excess — David Brooks — a collection of essays on writers who pushed against limits: de Sade, Bataille, Artaud, and others.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA Literary Companion: India — Bruce Palling — a guide to the literature and literary culture of the subcontinent, from the classical to the contemporary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Ession — Peter Fitzpatrick — the story of Australia's first professional theatre company and the couple who founded it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFlesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Devolution — Rolf Hellebust — a scholarly study of Soviet literary culture and the transformation of the human body in propaganda and fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eFlaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait — Patrick White — White's memoir, unsparing and magnificent, from his Australian childhood to his Nobel Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003ePatrick White: A Life — David Marr — the definitive biography of Australia's greatest novelist, exhaustive and brilliantly written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eChanging Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century — Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright — a major survey of British drama across the century, companion to the BBC television series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAmis \u0026amp; Son: Two Literary Generations — Neil Powell — a dual biography of Kingsley and Martin Amis, and what passes between fathers and sons in literary families.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThe History of the Ginger Man: An Autobiography — J.P. 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