Catálogo de libros: Biografía: literaria

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  • Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne
    Léon Bloy / ROBINSON
    Four Years of Captivity in Cochons-sur-Marne: 1900-1904 by Léon Bloy (originally Quatre ans de Captivité à Cochons-sur-Marne) is the third diary in the Ungrateful Beggar series.The autobiography, edited for publication, covers four years in the artistʼs life after he and his family moved back to France from Denmark, to Lagny on the Marne, about 40 kilometers outside Paris. It r...
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    47,53 €

  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;With an Introduction by Sherwood Anderson
    Gertrude Stein
    One of the greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century, this masterful volume tells the story of Alice B. Toklas and her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein.Following the tragedy of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Alice B. Toklas moved to Paris where she met her lifelong partner, Gertrude Stein. The women moved in together and were inseparable until Stein’s death in 194...
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    24,37 €

  • The Umbrella of Clairvoyance
    Galina Tregubov
    The most intriguing puzzle in the world is the journey of human life. The author lets readers solve many puzzles for themselves by introducing different characters in the process of navigating through entertaining and captivating plots. These stories, gracefully illustrated by the author, make it clear that virtues, vices, sadness, and silliness are universal features regardles...
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    19,26 €

  • Literary Reinvention
    John Martin
    Beyond BeliefJohn Coetzee (the Nobel Prize winner and author of Foe)I have read your Defoe biography and have found it a real eye-opener- congratulations. As for the blackmailing of Defoe by Elisabeth White and her father, you certainly make out a persuasive case for it, and more generally for a highly-coded reading of Defoe’s fictions.Library JournalIt offers informed speculat...
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    37,20 €

  • You Don’t Fall Out of the Universe
    B. J. Jewett
    A hybrid of memoir and poetry, You Don’t Fall Out of the Universe navigates what one family endures before and after the unimaginable loss of a son. With quiet moments of heartache and resilience, Jewett shows the strength in being vulnerable. If you think you know how to console someone who’s grieving, this memoir reveals there’s more to learn, how our simplest phrases can cau...
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    16,39 €

  • Browning And His Century
    Helen Archibald Clarke
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBrowning And His CenturyThis 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 compl...
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    12,32 €

  • George Macdonald and his Wife
    Greville Macdonald
    2022 Reprint of the 1924 edition.  With Twenty-Eight illustrations.  Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition. 'George MacDonald was a Scottish poet, author, and lecturer who wrote many novels, religious texts, and books of poetry. His most lasting works include The Princess and The Goblins, At The Back Of The North Wind, Phantastes, a...
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    25,15 €

  • Conversations with Billy Collins
    John Cusatis
    Billy Collins 'puts the ’fun’ back in profundity,' says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called 'hospitable' poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins w...
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    21,01 €

  • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
    Aleister Crowley
    One of the most famous books on the occult ever written, this is a record of Crowley’s journey into strange regions of consciousness: his initiation into magic his world-wide travels and mistresses, his experiments with sex and drugs, and the philosophy of his famous 'Book of the Law'.Aleister Crowley, self-styled 'the Beast', founder of his own spiritual orders, was already a ...
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    61,81 €

  • Conversations with George Saunders
    Michael O’Connell
    Besides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December provides detailed insight into his own writing process...
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    21,00 €

  • Boswell The Biographer
    George Herbert Leigh Mallory
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBoswell The BiographerThis 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 complet...
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    12,30 €

  • Bleak Health
    Nicholas Cambridge
    Dickens had a life-long obsession with health and medicine. This landmark new book documents this more fully than ever. It is valuable, too, for studies of public health changes in the 19th-century. / Bleak Health - by a medically-trained literary historian - offers an in-depth study of Dickens’s life and letters from a medical viewpoint, throwing new light on his world; his me...
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    80,65 €

  • An Irregular Life
    Mark McPherson
    'And now comes a man who thinks like, looks like, talks like and is as close to the real Conan Doyle as possible. He is Mark McPherson.'- John Bennett ShawBut on his own account, since childhood Mark McPherson’s interest in the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and his Great Detective have become a realized dimension of his life. A professed student of the mysterious and arcane who ...
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    30,44 €

  • 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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    27,31 €

  • 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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    18,95 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    15,64 €

  • 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 €


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