Catálogo de libros: Biografía: literaria

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  • Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction
    Syeda Faiqa Mazhar
    Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gor...
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    50,04 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    Jeremy W. Johnston
    'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'  So begins J.R.R. Tolkien’s marvellous tale of wizards, elves, dragons, and dwarves in the children’s book, The Hobbit. Since Bilbo Baggins entered the hearts and minds of readers in 1937, millions of people around the world have gone on to read, watch, and study Tolkien’s epic masterpieces The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilli...
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    21,83 €

  • Mark Twain in Berlin Newly Discovered Stories & An Account of Twain’s Berlin Adventures
    Andreas Austilat / Mark Twain
    In fall 1891, Mark Twain headed for Berlin, the 'newest city I have ever seen,' as America’s foremost humorist wrote; accompanied by his wife, Olivia, and their three daughters. Twain, a 'Yankee from head to toe,' according to the Berlin press, conspired with diplomats, frequented the famed salons, had breakfast with duchesses, and dined with the emperor. He also suffered an 'o...
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    16,42 €

  • A Modern Literary Life
    Heather Ingman
    This revelatory new work sets the life of one of the foremost writers of fiction in the 20th-century in its several contexts including her busy life in literary London, and her experiences during the Blitz (when she was an ARP Warden). / The author is a leading scholar noted for her work on Irish fiction, nation, women, and gender. ...
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    65,23 €

  • THE GOLDEN PEN
    ALEXA NAZZARO BELEN / ALEXA BELEN
    Dive into the heart of intrigue with 'The Golden Pen,' a compelling blend of history, mystery, and truth. Told through the first-person perspectives of multiple characters, this novel offers a deeply personal exploration of narrative threads. Journalist Jan Havel Smith from 2024 is catapulted back in time as he seeks his maternal heritage within the historical shadows of the Au...
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    33,18 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton ...
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    30,46 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton ...
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    159,50 €

  • Memoirs of a Minotaur
    Robin Magowan
    'In his extraordinary book Memoirs of a Minotaur: From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry, Robin Magowan (grandson of the founder of Merrill Lynch and nephew of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, James Merrill) turns his uncompromising vision and diamond-edged language toward the emotional terrain and the kind of privileged life very few of us have known, ...
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    16,30 €

  • Just the Thing
    James Schuyler
    This fully updated edition of James Schuyler’s letters to three dozen intimates, published on the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth, offers unparalleled insights into the lives, friendships, and sensibilities that sprang from the influential New York School. James Schuyler’s effervescent takes on people, nature, art, writing, and love are on joyous display in his letters ...
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    23,88 €

  • Writing Great Tom
    T. S. Matthews
    Writing Great Tom is the account of a biographer’s journey that began with a letter from a New York editor asking him to write a biography of T. S. Eliot. T. S. Matthews referred to the journey as 'living a detective story.' He began keeping this backup account when he thought it might be impossible to write the biography. He comforted himself with the idea of publishing instea...
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    64,96 €

  • What Is We To You?!
    Larry Odell Johnson
    I use an autobiographical approach to unpack a cryptographical interpretation or content analysis of the first four chapters of the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Scriptures. This analysis is designed to present the semiotic and hermeneutical underpinnings of the Scriptures in raw everyday terms avoiding the murkier waters of those studies which divert believers away from...
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    12,64 €

  • What Is We To You?!
    Larry Odell Johnson
    I use an autobiographical approach to unpack a cryptographical interpretation or content analysis of the first four chapters of the King James Version (KJV) of the Holy Scriptures. This analysis is designed to present the semiotic and hermeneutical underpinnings of the Scriptures in raw everyday terms avoiding the murkier waters of those studies which divert believers away from...
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    20,44 €

  • My Sam Johnson
    Wayne Jones
    'We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.'This book is a biography of the man who wrote those words about three hundred years ago, the great man of letters of the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson. And it has a special purpose: presenting the story of S...
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    12,73 €

  • Reading Buechner
    Jeffrey Munroe
    Frederick Buechner is one of the most gifted writers of his generation, and his legacy casts a long shadow over Christian letters today. As a memoirist, he opened up an entirely new way to think about the genre. As a novelist, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer. And as a theologian and preacher, he pioneered the art of making theology accessible for a popular audience.Yet for a...
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    22,16 €

  • Talking to the Dead
    Sarah LeFanu
    In 2020 the former Women’s Press editor and literary critic Sarah LeFanu published her group biography of three British writers and their travels to South Africa in the closing days of the Victorian era, Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War, which was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Talking to the ...
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    22,65 €

  • The Radical Isaac
    Adi Mahalel
    Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz’s alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics. ...
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    46,98 €

  • Hakim Bey Real and Unreal
    Th. Metzger
    For a man made of words, it is perversely perfect that none can capture the essence of Hakim Bey. Anarcho-Sufi wiseman, scholar of the unknowable, miraculous monologist, psychedelic shaman: all of this is true. Yet it only suggests - rather than defines - this writer and the long shadow that he casts. Th. Metzger was initiated into the Moorish Orthodox Church (resurrected in 19...
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    14,11 €

  • Interviews With Legendary Writers From Beyond
    Cathy McGough
    WHAT WOULD YOU ASK YOUR FAVOURITE WRITE FROM BEYONDIF YOU MET HIM?With the help of a Fictional Psychic colleague, the following authors are brought back for once in a lifetime fifteen minute interviews:*Poe *Hawthorne *Tennyson *Shelley *Keats*Leacock *Voltaire *Paterson *Twain *Byron*Dostoevsky *Thoreau *Baudelaire *Burns*Collins *Dickens *Coleridge *Kipling'The humorous prese...
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    16,70 €

  • Brutal Ink
    Janee Mock Friedmann
    With unapologetic rawness and audacious candor, Janee Mock Friedmann peels back the curtain of the literary world to reveal a tumultuous realm of egos, rivalry, and fierce ambition in "Brutal Ink." This is not a journey for the faint-hearted. Navigating the treacherous waters of the publishing world, Friedmann uncovers the brutal tactics and sharp tongues that often hide behind...
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    10,47 €

  • The Bard and his Sister-in-Law
    Mallika Sengupta / Lopamudra Banerjee
    A historical novel/biographical nonfiction by award-winning feminist author/poet Mallika Sengupta from Kolkata, India, ’Kabir Bouthan’ focuses on the multifaceted history of the illustrious Jorasanko Thakurbari, Kolkata, the birth place of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (mentioned in the book as ’Rabi’). The narrative chronicles the inter personal relationships between the ...
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    25,59 €

  • Letters to Hyman Bradofsky and Others
    H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft’s literary career ended very much the way it began-with amateur journalism. In 1914, he had entered the United Amateur Press Association and gained lifelong friends and a renewed will to live and write. In 1930, Lovecraft’s attendance at the annual convention of the National Amateur Press Association led to a renewed interest in the multifarious issues agitating...
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    31,81 €

  • A Study in Sherlock
    Raymond G. Farney / Raymond GFarney
    Since he first appeared in the 1887 Beeton’s Christmasannual A Study in Scarlet, a great deal has been written aboutArthur Conan Doyle’s legendary character, the consultingdetective Sherlock Holmes.Now, for the first time, Raymond G. Farney offers a concise,case-by-case compendium of these Sherlockian adventures.In an easy-to-read format, Farney presents a study of each Sherloc...
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    48,15 €

  • Pocket of Pain
    LadyWarfield
    Pocket of Pain is a coming-of-age story that takes place in a world of 80’s popular culture, music, and fashion. As her parent’s marriage falls apart, Suzanne escapes into a relationship with a boy who is five years older and ends up being more controlling than her father.She escapes once again, this time as she leaves for college, and submerges herself in the RVA punk rock sce...
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    15,16 €

  • Confessions of a Reluctant Erotica Writer
    Tori Ross
    From Tori Ross, the National Indie Excellence Award winner for The Cuffing Season Contract, comes a non-fiction account of her first year of writing erotica on the side.After an injury left her sidelined from her job, Tori Ross thought writing romance would be a lucrative career choice. But when the money going out for production costs, covers, editing, and promotion was more t...
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    10,35 €

  • Conversations with Jimmy Carter
    Tom Head
    When Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) lost the presidency in 1980, it would have been reasonable to think his public life was coming to an end. The moderate, evangelical, blue-jeans-wearing peanut farmer made an unlikely governor of Georgia, and an even less likely winner of the vicious 1976 Democratic presidential primary. Coming into an era of American politics where evangelical and ru...
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    21,26 €

  • Hanna Rion
    Kitt R. McMaster III
    During her relatively short life, Hanna Rion (1874-1924) achieved distinction not only as one of the most popular garden writers of the early 20th century but also as a musician, painter, and writer of fiction. Her lively and witty writing style, uniquely her own, has made The Garden in the Wilderness (1909) and Let’s Make a Flower Garden (1912) classics of the 'garden fever er...
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    22,71 €

  • A Study in Sherlock
    Raymond G. Farney / Raymond GFarney
    Since he first appeared in the 1887 Beeton’s Christmasannual A Study in Scarlet, a great deal has been written aboutArthur Conan Doyle’s legendary character, the consultingdetective Sherlock Holmes.Now, for the first time, Raymond G. Farney offers a concise,case-by-case compendium of these Sherlockian adventures.In an easy-to-read format, Farney presents a study of each Sherloc...
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    38,40 €

  • Meditations of a Solitary in 1916
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    Meditations of a Solitary in 1916 was written by Léon Bloy in 1916 in France, during World War I, and published in 1917, the same year that the author passed away. The themes are mostly theological, with sustained meditations on both the Christian soul and the lack of soul of Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany. Indeed, although biographical in nature, one might consider this less a...
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    22,93 €

  • Between Webster and Me
    Carol Joan Campbell
    I’ll probably worry any dinner guests when I excuse myself to take care of decanting the vegetables and elutriating my hands.The dictionary can be fun. Author Carol Joan Campbell has experienced that first-hand with her worn Webster’s dictionary, and now you can find out what’s Between Webster and Me. Working her way through the dictionary, Campbell artfully chose her words, fr...
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    9,90 €

  • Star-Crossed Lovers
    M. J. Moore
    From Lowney Handy’s scandalous small-town open marriage to author JamesJones’s extraordinary apprenticeship with Maxwell Perkins, Star-Crossed Lovers illuminates an unforgettable lovestory. She was an eccentric small-town self-taught rebel, driven by creative zeal and anon-conformist streak. He was a distressed ex-GI (flat broke, without prospects,damaged by war), 17 years youn...
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    16,44 €


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