Catálogo de libros: Biografía: literaria

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  • The Biography of Léon Bloy
    René Martineau / Richard Robinson
    The Biography of Léon Bloy: Memories of a Friend, published in 1921, is the official biography of Léon Bloy (1846-1917) by his friend, René Martineau. René Martineau and Léon Bloy were good friends for the last eighteen years of the latter writerʼs life.'The first time I met Léon Bloy was at the train station in Lagny, in 1901.' Lagny or Lagny-sur-Marne or, as Léon Bloy later p...
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    20,19 €

  • Conversations with Diane Di Prima
    David Stephen Calonne
    Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. Di Prima and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) edited The Floating Bear (1962-69), one of the most significant underground publications of the sixties. Di Prima’s poetry and prose chronicle her ...
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    42,78 €

  • Conversations with Diane Di Prima
    David Stephen Calonne
    Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. Di Prima and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) edited The Floating Bear (1962-69), one of the most significant underground publications of the sixties. Di Prima’s poetry and prose chronicle her ...
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    158,24 €

  • Conversations with Jerome Charyn
    Sophie Vallas
    This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well. As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a 'Bronx Boy,' a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island...
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    43,11 €

  • In Crocodile Land
    Ion Idriess
    In Crocodile Land is principally the story of travels by lugger through northern waters and into slimy creeks where the huge crocodiles abound. The author took part in many hunting expeditions and enlightens us on the various methods adopted for catching these fearsome creatures. The party had more than a little success, to the great glee of the blackfellows who accompanied the...
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    22,26 €

  • The Novelist of Wildfell Hall
    Edward Chitham
    In this landmark new biography the leading critic Edward Chitham offers a contemporary account of the life and work of the English novelist and poet Anne Brontë (1820-49), the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. ...
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    65,17 €

  • Rupert Brooke of Rugby
    Keith Hale
    When Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning on his way to fight the Turkish forces at Gallipoli in 1915, his friends in England were quick to turn him into a national hero--a patriotic symbol of the many young men of England going to war. That Brooke had recently published five sonnets glorifying patriotic sacrifice did much to promote his legend. That his friends included Winst...
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    30,77 €

  • Rupert Brooke
    Keith Hale
    Keith Hale, editor of Friends & Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914, here examines the bowdlerization of Brooke in existing biographies and looks into the poet’s self-proclaimed bisexual identity. Hale examines the same-sex relationships Brooke enjoyed with Michael Sadleir, Charles Lascelles, and Denham Russell-Smith as well as the poems ...
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    20,10 €

  • Lectures on Dostoevsky
    Joseph Frank
    From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer’s major worksJoseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist’s major works provide an u...
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    28,00 €

  • The Girl from Lamaha Street
    Sharon Maas
    Perhaps it’s true that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Perhaps it’s true that you only know what you truly love when you no longer have it. But I wouldn’t have known any of this if I hadn’t left it all behind to discover where my home truly was...Growing up in British Guiana in the 1950s, Sharon Maas has everything a shy child with a vivid imagination could wish for. She s...
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    11,55 €

  • The Origins of Nostalgia
    Svetlana Boym
    This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical 'snippets of experience' written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical. They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was ...
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    128,55 €

  • Bony At Bermagui
    Arthur W. Upfield
    On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word ’Bermagui’. 'That’s the place Zane Grey wrote about,' remarked my son. 'That’s the place I’m looking for,' I decided. And what a place! Oh, what a place. The air like wine and as cool as that in the green ferntree depths of the gully beside my mountain home! The surf everlastingly playing its music on the sand beach before the tow...
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    23,39 €

  • Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2021
    Stephen Jones
    James Bond’s twin brother ... two iconic fantasy artists ... a former child actor who starred in two different versions of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror ... two movie Tarzans and a Jane ... the two stars of the Japanese sci-spy movie Terror Beneath the Sea ... an actor who played both Frankenstein’s Monster and Count Dracula ... and the two teenage stars of Village of the...
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    35,57 €

  • Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
    Linda Wagner-Martin
    Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born at the dawn of the twentieth century, destined for celebrity as one half of the infamous darlings of the Jazz Age literary world.For the first time, Zelda’s story is told from her own perspective rather than through the lens of her famous husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald.A southern belle from Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald epitomized the 'New Woman'...
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    15,26 €

  • Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
    Christine Bennett / Julia Allen
    The authors take a fresh approach to the telling of Mary Sidney’s fascinating story. She was a remarkable woman who spent a significant part of her life at Wilton House. Married at the age of fifteen to one of England’s richest men, she was close to Queen Elizabeth I. As she lived at a time of political and religious change, her story is told against that background. The untime...
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    19,86 €

  • The White Brother
    Michael Juste
    Here is a personal story of 'a student who sought and became the pupil of one deeply learned in the knowledge of the Divine Sciences'; a moving account of Juste’s journey through the jungle of falsehoods and half-truths in his search for Truth. Anarchism, atheism, socialism, spiritualism, theosophy--all these and more Juste investigates in the hope that they will supply a compr...
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    26,24 €

  • The White Brother
    Michael Juste
    Here is a personal story of 'a student who sought and became the pupil of one deeply learned in the knowledge of the Divine Sciences'; a moving account of Juste’s journey through the jungle of falsehoods and half-truths in his search for Truth. Anarchism, atheism, socialism, spiritualism, theosophy--all these and more Juste investigates in the hope that they will supply a compr...
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    18,78 €

  • Love and Kisses Paul Hiebert
    Noreen Olson
    Believing that 'literary icons don’t answer letters from ordinary people,' Noreen Olson nonetheless contacted iconic Canadian writer and humourist Paul Hiebert after reading his book Sarah Binks. To her surprise, Hiebert wrote back. Thus began a rich correspondence between two kindred spirits that ended only with Hiebert’s death in 1987. Love and Kisses, Paul Hiebert charts thi...
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    24,96 €

  • Detailed Pieces of a Shattered Dream
    Amanda Blackwood
    "My name is Amanda Blackwood and I’m a survivor of human trafficking." Even now the words sound like fiction, especially as the horrors fade from recent memory. It’s been 20 years since I escaped that fate, beating the odds. Most don’t survive. I know that now, I didn’t know that then. I didn’t see any other option.At the age of 19, my life took a drastic turn down a very dark ...
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    14,22 €

  • The Far Side of Paradise
    Arthur Mizener
    The seminal biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.The Far Side of Paradise was the first ever biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, widely acclaimed as a sensitive, scholarly appraisal of the writer’s life and work. With this revised edition, updated to include new information that has since surfaced, Arthur Mizener has created a definitive portrait of Fitzgerald - the man, his work, an...
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    15,50 €

  • Caste and Outcast
    Dhan Gopal Mukerji
    Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Caste and Outcast is a moving autobiographical narrative from the first Indian writer to gain a popular audience in the United States. Although he is more widely recognized for such children’s novels as Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon (...
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    15,67 €

  • My Remininscenes
    Rabindranath Tagore
    My Reminiscences (1917) is a memoir by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, My Reminiscences contains personal reflections on the author’s youth, education, and introduction to the art of poetry. Originally published in Bengali, My Reminiscences was written by Tagore in his fiftieth year, as he prepared to embark on a journey ...
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    15,62 €

  • Tolstoy As Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoyevsky
    Dmitry Merezhkovsky
    Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky (1901) is a work of literary criticism by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity’s fulfillment in twentieth century humanity. In this collection of es...
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    16,42 €

  • The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
    George Whicher
    The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood (1915) is a monograph by George Whicher. Highly regarded by feminist scholars today, Haywood was a prolific writer who revolutionized the English novel while raising a family, running a pamphlet shop in Covent Gardens, and pursuing a career as an actress and writer for some of London’s most prominent theaters. In The Life and Romances...
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    14,89 €

  • Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant
    Walter Besant
    Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902) is a posthumously published autobiography by Walter Besant. Although he is more widely known for his works of fiction and book-length studies of the city of London, Besant was also a gifted autobiographer whose unique sense of self and rich memories make for an entertaining, informative read. 'I am supposing that [man] has the choice of...
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    16,48 €

  • Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
    Emily Dickinson / Martha Dickinson Bianchi
    Published in 1924, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson is a biography by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Featuring detailed biographical essays and her letters, for the first time arranged chronically, the book stands as a retelling of her aunt’s life from the perspective of family in an attempt to challenge the image of Emily Dickinson as a cold, isolated woman of myst...
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    19,46 €

  • The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo
    The Memoirs of Victor Hugo (1899) is an autobiographical work by Victor Hugo. Assembled from diaries and manuscripts left behind by the author following his death in 1895, the Memoirs are as much a record of a life as they are a portrait of nineteenth century France. Told from the perspective of a supremely gifted artist whose command of language is matched only by his commitme...
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    16,37 €

  • John Barleycorn
    Jack London
    Wrestling with the disease of alcoholism for most of his life, Jack London tells all in his autobiography John Barleycorn. Beginning with a discussion of the prohibition movement and its effects, London explores the ways that alcohol affects daily life in the Victorian era. Because there were not many forms of affordable entertainment or reliable communication, bars were the p...
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    15,68 €

  • Autobiography of Mark Twain
    Mark Twain
    Autobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his life, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is a series of brief reflections on 74 years of fame, hard work, and adventure by an icon of American literature. Originally serialized in the North American Review, the United States’ oldest litera...
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    23,36 €

  • William Shakespeare
    Victor Hugo
    William Shakespeare (1864) is an experimental biography by Victor Hugo. Written while the poet was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, William Shakespeare was doomed to fail at its conception. Condemned by critics who expected Hugo to focus on the works of the Elizabethan playwright, William Shakespeare is in reality a sweeping biography of literature itself, a touching ...
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    19,51 €


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