Catálogo de libros: Biografía: literaria

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  • The Writing Irish (hardback)
    Jason O’Toole
    'Indisputably Ireland’s most talented and prolific interviewer.' - Irish Daily Mail The Writing Irish is an anthology of in-depth interviews with some of the island’s leading literary luminaries. This wide-ranging collection of 18 subjects includes several of Ireland’s most critically acclaimed novelists: Jennifer Johnston, Sebastian Barry, John Boyne, Emma Donoghue, Donal Ryan...
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    37,66 €

  • Back O’ Cairns
    Ion Idriess
    In this book, Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914, and coincided with his earliest writing as 'Gouger' for the Bulletin.In Back of Cairns, Jack gives the reader a picture of what life was like when the peninsula jungle was falling under the settler’s axe, his own day-to-day experiences, and the district’s historical background....
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    24,35 €

  • Remembering Coleridge - Essays & Excerpts on the Life & Works of the English Poet
    Various
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Coleridge had a significant influence on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism in general, and played an im...
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    22,03 €

  • The Portraits, Prints and Writings of John Milton
    George Charles Williamson
    John Milton: intellectual, civil servant and one of the greatest poets of his time, was a prolific writer. Although talented and renowned, much of his famous works, such as Paradise Lost, and Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint, (a sonnet about his deceased second wife Katherine Woodcock), was written during his blindness. Milton made significant contributions to art and pol...
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    12,85 €

  • The Martyr of Style - Essays & Excerpts on Gustave Flaubert
    Various
    Hailed as one of the greatest western novelists of all time, French author Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first became famous for his debut novel “Madame Bovary” (1857), a seminal work of literary realism that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity. Mentor of the celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant. Flaubert was highly influential and is generally considered to be ...
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    22,01 €

  • Charles Addams
    Linda H. Davis
    Meet the legendary cartoonist behind the famed Addams family in his first biographical expose. Written with exclusive access to Charles Addams’s intimates and private papers, readers get front-row seats to the widespread rumors and storytelling genius behind The Addams Family. ...
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    26,54 €

  • 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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    10,57 €

  • Anne-Marie Fauques de Vaucluse, a Tiger among the Bluestockings
    Julia Gasper
    Anne-Marie Fauques de Vaucluse fled from France to England in 1756 to avoid being sent to the Bastille for writing a book denouncing the tyranny of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. When the book was printed the French government tried to get it suppressed and the author arrested, but failed. Author of twenty books in both French and English, she was an eccentric, brilliant, an...
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    30,40 €

  • CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
    Arthur Symons
    CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: A STUDYBy Arthur SymonsCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet’s poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifes...
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    19,02 €

  • 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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    15,13 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    157,99 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    42,53 €

  • Conversations with Colum McCann
    Earl G Ingersoll
    Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann’s interests. The number and length of the later conversations attest...
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    42,86 €

  • The Waves
    Donald Motier
    Have you ever wondered who the REAL Tiny Tim Cratchit and Little Paul Dombey characters were based on? It was Charles Dickens nephew Henry 'Harry' Augustus Burnett (1839 - 1849) who was the son of his favorite sister Frances 'Fanny' Elizabeth Burnett (1810 -1848). Both Harry and Fanny died of tuberculosis, Harry’s a progressive, insidious form of spinal TB.With the assistance o...
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    14,78 €

  • Georg Hermann
    John Craig-Sharples
    Following the success of his novel Jettchen Gebert (1906), Georg Hermann (1871-1943) became one of Germany’s best-loved authors: Schnitzler called him ’the Jewish Fontane’. A Berliner himself, Hermann was celebrated for capturing the spirit and atmosphere of the city, and renowned for his Impressionistic ability to evoke mood and ambience. He became a prominent opponent of war ...
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    20,66 €

  • Diary of a Novel
    Eugenia Price
    The Story of Writing Margaret’s Story 'Writing a novel is the hardest work I ever did, but I am restless, jittery, never really quite at home unless I am at work on one.' ...
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    16,05 €

  • Diary of a Novel
    Eugenia Price
    The Story of Writing Margaret’s Story 'Writing a novel is the hardest work I ever did, but I am restless, jittery, never really quite at home unless I am at work on one.' ...
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    23,92 €

  • Another Day
    Eugenia Price
    Here is a personally experienced, private look into the wellsprings of faith and wisdom by the author of the national bestseller Savannah whose cherished works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. ...
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    15,92 €

  • Another Day
    Eugenia Price
    Here is a personally experienced, private look into the wellsprings of faith and wisdom by the author of the national bestseller Savannah whose cherished works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. ...
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    23,80 €

  • Inside One Author’s Heart
    Eugenia Price
    Inside One Author’s Heart is dedicated to Ms. Price’s readers, and is for everyone who wants to know what the life of a writer is truly like. ...
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    15,95 €

  • Inside One Author’s Heart
    Eugenia Price
    Inside One Author’s Heart is dedicated to Ms. Price’s readers, and is for everyone who wants to know what the life of a writer is truly like. ...
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    23,92 €

  • What Really Matters
    Eugenia Price
    Drawing on her own personal experience and on her thorough knowledge of the Bible, this widely read and respected author, whose novels and inspiration works have sold more than 15,000,000 copies nationwide, shares a simple look at what is essential to life as a Christian. ...
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    16,10 €

  • What Really Matters
    Eugenia Price
    Drawing on her own personal experience and on her thorough knowledge of the Bible, this widely read and respected author, whose novels and inspiration works have sold more than 15,000,000 copies nationwide, shares a simple look at what is essential to life as a Christian. ...
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    23,97 €

  • The Gallant Edith Bratt
    Bunting Nancy / Hamill-Keays Seamus
    Who was Edith Bratt? Millions saw Hollywood’s fantasy version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s one and only love, Edith Bratt, in the 2019 movie, Tolkien. Fact, though, is stranger than fiction, and more interesting. Edith’s story reveals a gallant heroine suffering under 'The Shadow of the Past.' Edith was Ronald’s 'lover,' and much like her mother, Edith risked all for the man she loved. ...
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    30,45 €

  • The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
    Sir Walter Scott / Walter Sir Scott
    Originally published in 1890, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott spans seven eventful years of the author’s life where he attempts to reclaim his good standing. It’s a revealing look at the highs and lows of one of the greatest novelists of all-time.The Journal of Sir Walter Scott starts in 1825 when the author is 54 years old. It recounts a seven-year stretch of financial strain ...
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    34,00 €

  • Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2020
    Stephen Jones
    The Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2020 celebrates the careers more than 450 individuals who made significant contributions to the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres during their lifetimes. Compiled by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones, this first volume in a new annual series includes tributes to a trio of Hollywood legends . . . possibly the last star of s...
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    24,34 €

  • 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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    10,62 €

  • One Woman’s World
    Lenora Mattingly Weber
    Lenora Mattingly Weber (1895-1971) was best known for her mid-20th century girls book series, especially those about independent girls such as Beany Malone and Katie Rose Belford. Weber was an industrious widow with six children, who also had a lesser-known career as a magazine columnist. From 1946 to 1967, Weber wrote 'Mid Pleasures and Problems' for Extension, a monthly Catho...
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    22,34 €

  • Amazing Storytellers
    Michael Lent
    Their imaginations have been the genesis of our nightmares, the elevation to the fantastic realms of our dreams and a reflection of our true selves. They are four of the most respected genre authors in the last 50 years. It’s not that these authors are simply best sellers, but have, in their own ways, transformed our culture and transcended the written word into new media. This...
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    23,41 €

  • Conversations with Russell Banks
    David Roche
    If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn’t 'think about [his] reader at all when [he’s] writing,' he clearly enjoys talking with his actual readers, whether they be students, writers, or academics, delighting in the diversity of his audience and in the 'greater democratization of commentary' provided by alternative media. These conversations span a period of over thirty years,...
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    42,99 €


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