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  • Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor
    Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled 'Reconsidering Flannery O’Conno...
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    158,20 €

  • Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor
    Alison Arant
    Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled 'Reconsidering Flannery O’Conno...
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    50,04 €

  • The History of St. Louis Writers Guild
    Brad R. Cook / Brad RCook
    The History of St. Louis Writers Guild: Celebrating a Centuryfounded in 1920Meet the founders and charter members who ignited the spark that became St. Louis Writers Guild. Writers like Sam Hellman, the first president, and famed screenwriter for the silver screen; or Temple Bailey, the highest-paid female author of the 1920s. Discover amazing events, from the first meeting to ...
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    12,41 €

  • William Shakespeare
    Douglas King
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    82,53 €

  • Conversations with Jay Parini
    Michael Lackey
    Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contain...
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    43,10 €

  • Peggy
    Colin Chambers
    The authorized biography of one of the most influential and colourful behind-the-scenes figures in the British theatre since the war. As an agent, ’Peggy’ nurtured the talents of several generations of writers, among them, John Arden, Edward Bond, David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff and Caryl Churchill. ...
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    15,40 €

  • Arab Intellectuals and American Power
    M.D. Walhout
    Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century’s most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and - to some - controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and beyond. But how exactly did he arrive at his famous maxim to ’speak truth to power’?This dual biographical study examines the ...
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    160,57 €

  • An Exact Mystery
    Richard Ramsbotham
    Vernon Watkins is a great riddle at the heart of twentieth century poetry. His poetry has been praised in the highest terms by, among others, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and Marianne Moore. Kathleen Raine called him: “the greatest lyric poet of my generation.” Yet he has remained, for the most part, almost entirely unknown.One reason for this is that Watkins in no way ...
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    29,92 €

  • Make Your Mess Your Memoir
    Anna David
    We’ve all made a mess.And that means we all have a message.This is the book that shows you how to take the former and make it into the latter.FROM THE NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWhen Anna David got sober and sold a book about her recovery to the biggest publisher in the world, she thought she’d made it. She was wrong.Still, after years of struggle and self-discovery, she ended ...
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    18,76 €

  • Wholly Esenin
    Sergei Esenin / Roger Pulvers
    'If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin. 'The ’old plank bridge’ spans not only eras but centuries; not only one Russia with another, but Russia with the rest of the world.'So writes acclaimed author and translator Roger Pulvers about this collection of translations of the best and most moving poems by Sergei Esenin, still, n...
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    21,46 €

  • Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part
    Maureen Whittaker
    “Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man’s incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes’s marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show that, too. It’s difficult for me to say what I may have given to the image of Holmes. Faithful to Conan Doyle’s text, certai...
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    110,05 €

  • Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part
    Maureen Whittaker
    'Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man’s incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes’s marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show that, too. It’s difficult for me to say what I may have given to the image of Holmes. Faithful to Conan Doyle’s text, certai...
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    46,70 €

  • Enigbewo
    Cash Onadele
    This drama is my life! Early childhood as I remembered it. Is it colorful? I guess it depends on what you look for. If a story of humble beginnings strikes you as a nightmare, then you should not read this. If you cannot stand a little boy fail and fail again, save your time for another book. On the other hand, if you are drawn to struggles and delights of small things of life ...
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    23,46 €

  • The Echoing Bomb Blast
    Sigismund David Roberts
    You can never be a hundred-percent protected from an accident that could take your life away. You could be asleep in bed and a moon rock come through your roof and take you to eternity. At eight years old, it was my first time hearing an explosion of the magnitude of the explosion in the Hope riverbed on the tenth of March 1962. The earth quaked, and the explosion went up the r...
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    16,49 €

  • De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    “…Prison life makes one see people and things as they really are. That is why it turns one to stone. It is the people outside who are deceived by the illusions of a life in constant motion. They revolve with life and contribute to its unreality. We who are immobile both see and know.”  —Oscar Wilde (1905)While in prison from 1895 to 1897 due to his homosexual affair with Lord A...
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    32,09 €

  • Nathalie Sarraute
    Ann Jefferson
    The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France’s most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. Ann Jefferson’s Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between is the authoritative biography...
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    59,13 €

  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
    Ambrose Bierce
    Ambrose Bierce’s haunting Civil War story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as Union soldiers are hanging him. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, something happens. The rope breaks, and the man escapes. Or the man imag...
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    26,20 €

  • De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    “…Prison life makes one see people and things as they really are. That is why it turns one to stone. It is the people outside who are deceived by the illusions of a life in constant motion. They revolve with life and contribute to its unreality. We who are immobile both see and know.”  —Oscar Wilde (1905)While in prison from 1895 to 1897 due to his homosexual affair with Lord A...
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    14,51 €

  • Brief Lives
    Andrew Clark / John Aubrey
    “Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living.” —John AubreyBrief Lives—Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century.  It took two centuries, however, before Aubrey rece...
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    30,87 €

  • Brief Lives
    John Aubrey
    “Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living.” —John AubreyBrief Lives—Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century.  It took two centuries, however, before Aubrey rece...
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    31,13 €

  • Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Daria Tunca
    Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: "I have...
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    158,35 €

  • Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Daria Tunca
    Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: "I have...
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    42,89 €

  • Book Ends
    Hugo Grylls
    Poor George has just about had it with the publishing world, lunches, infidelities and a lifetime of a right bunch of comedian wannabes whose utter tosh (think sports biogs by ‘celebrities’) he’s practically (OMG, ‘practically’ is as bad as ‘literally’’ and  ‘like’… and ‘totally’) had to rewrite.  What if he’s bothered to sit down and produce his own oeuvre. A proper book! And ...
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    17,97 €

  • Book Ends
    Hugo Grylls
    Poor George has just about had it with the publishing world, lunches, infidelities and a lifetime of a right bunch of comedian wannabes whose utter tosh (think sports biogs by ‘celebrities’) he’s practically (OMG, ‘practically’ is as bad as ‘literally’’ and  ‘like’… and ‘totally’) had to rewrite.  What if he’s bothered to sit down and produce his own oeuvre. A proper book! And ...
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    12,16 €

  • Autobiographic Sketches
    Thomas De Quincey
    Autobiographic Sketches: (Selections, Grave And Gay, From Writings Published And Unpublished)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has be...
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    13,18 €

  • Emily Brontë
    Passfield
    Emily Brontë: More Myself Than IEvery evening, flanked by her two creative sisters, Charlotte and Anne, Emily Brontë sits down at the dining-room table in the Haworth parsonage and writes. As she does so, her imagination compresses and transforms the information of the life-experience that surrounds her-in the parsonage and out on the moors-into the diamond-hard imagery of her ...
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    25,46 €

  • Undesired Curves
    Shanaya Shukla
    This book talks about the ’braless reveloution which is somewhere hidden in the society which no one wants to speak about. The book is a Non- fiction gripping tale which focus on the women’s condition and the society mindset. The author tries to add value to the main reason which most of us as women’s can’t speak. It takes alot of courage to speak our heart out. We should try t...
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    13,66 €

  • Persona
    Naoki Inose
    A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide. ...
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    51,83 €

  • Conversations with Joanna Scott
    Michael Lackey
    Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse i...
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    43,10 €

  • Childhood at Brindabella
    Miles Franklin
    This delightful autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin's first ten years, spent partly on her parent's station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present day Canberra. It is a world of the high places and graceful living which she portrayed in her novels, here recaptured with unfaltering warmth and simplicity.The most charming of Miles Frankli...
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    14,52 €


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