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  • Haiku Master
    Erik Thomas
    A literary vision quest in space & time coming from the mind of a high school student. All poetry written from 9th through 12th grade blended with an emotive exhilarating score of rhyme nuanced by an organized touch of romance. ...
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    11,27 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • PARIS, I LOVE YOU BUT YOU’RE BRINGI
    ROSECRANS BALDWIN
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    16,34 €

  • A Passionate Sisterhood
    Kathleen Jones
    The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family tha...
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    12,01 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • AMERICAN ISIS
    CARL ROLLYSON
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    17,10 €

  • Letters of Henrik Ibsen
    Henrik Johan Ibsen / John Laurvik / Mary Morison
    Spanning decades of Henrik Ibsen’s life, these letters offer a rare glimpse into the mind of one of modern drama’s founding voices. Addressed to friends, collaborators, and critics, the correspondence reveals Ibsen’s evolving artistic vision, reflections on politics and society, and struggles with acclaim and isolation. Together, they form a rich literary and historical portrai...
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    24,63 €

  • Gene Stratton-Porter
    Gene Stratton-Porter
    Her publishers have felt the pressure of this growing interest and it was at their request that she furnished the data for a biographical sketch that was to be written of her. But when this actually came to hand, the present compiler found that the author had told a story so much more interesting than anything he could write of her, that it became merely a question of how littl...
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    9,03 €

  • Selected Correspondence
    Caroline Commanville / Gustave Flaubert
    Selected Correspondence offers a window into the life and mind of Gustave Flaubert, one of the most celebrated French authors of the 19th century. These letters reveal his thoughts on literature, art, and society, as well as intimate details about his personal struggles and relationships. A fascinating exploration of creativity, this collection showcases Flaubert’s wit, intelle...
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    16,36 €

  • Hospital Sketches
    Louisa May Alcott
    Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott is a poignant account based on her personal experiences as a Civil War nurse. Written with a mix of humor and heartbreak, the sketches offer insights into the realities of wartime hospitals, the soldiers she cared for, and the challenges faced by medical staff. Alcott’s vivid descriptions and reflections on the human spirit make this work ...
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    14,56 €

  • Leaves from a Life
    Jane Ellen Frith Panton
    In this autobiographical work, J. E. Panton offers a candid and insightful look into her personal experiences and reflections on 19th-century life. Through a series of vivid anecdotes, she delves into various aspects of Victorian society, family life, and personal growth. With her keen observations and heartfelt narrative, Panton provides readers with a unique glimpse into the ...
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    21,55 €

  • Oliver Goldsmith
    Washington Irving
    This biography, written by celebrated American author Washington Irving, offers a detailed account of the life and work of Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. Best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield and the play She Stoops to Conquer, Goldsmith led a tumultuous life marked by financial struggles and literary triumphs. Irving highlights Goldsmith’s wit, charm, and his signifi...
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    22,56 €

  • A Life’s Ambition and My Odyssey
    Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) wrote these autobiographical works about his life in the French theater, A Life’s Ambition, under the guise of being the memoirs of the fictional M. Gustave, and My Odyssey as himself. ...
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    16,30 €

  • A Tramp Abroad, vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    One of the finest of Twain’s travel books, detailing (often hilariously) his adventures in Europe, as a Yankee confronting the Old World. France, Germany, and Switzerland will never quite seem the same again. A fascinating glimpse of far times and places, seen through the eye of America’s best writer. ...
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    18,41 €

  • A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    One of the finest of Twain’s travel books, detailing (often hilariously) his adventures in Europe, as a Yankee confronting the Old World. France, Germany, and Switzerland will never quite seem the same again. A fascinating glimpse of far times and places, seen through the eye of America’s best writer. ...
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    21,81 €

  • Roughing It, Vol. 2
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Shortly after his inglorious 'military career' in a Confederate militia, as related in 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed,' Mark Twain 'lit out for the Territories' when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnec...
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    21,68 €

  • Roughing It, Vol. 1
    Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens
    Shortly after his inglorious 'military career' in a Confederate militia, as related in 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed,' Mark Twain 'lit out for the Territories' when his brother was appointed secretary to the governor of Nevada. The result was one of the greatest books in the literature of the American West, full of first-hand accounts of cowboys, miners, roughnec...
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    18,76 €

  • Life on the Mississippi
    Mark Twain
    This is the book that everyone knew, in Mark Twain’s time, that he had to write. It is the story of his youth on the Mississippi and his career as a riverboat pilot before the Civil War, which contains not only some of his very best writing, but remains our most vivid picture of this colorful era in American history. It might be fairly said that LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is to st...
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    26,79 €

  • 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 €

  • 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.Yiddish and Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz (1852-1915) was a major leader of Eastern European Jewry in the years prior to World War I, and was deeply involved in Jewish politics and communal life throughout his lifetime. In The Radical...
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    49,59 €

  • 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
    WHEN WORDS OUTLIVE THE WRITER, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WRITERS COMES BACK TO READ THEM ALOUD?What if you could sit across from your favourite long-gone writer - for just fifteen minutes - and ask him anything?In this quietly magical collection, which was awarded 2nd in Metamorph Publishing’s Literary Fiction Category in 2016, Cathy McGough invites legendary literary voices back i...
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    13,94 €

  • Family Declassified
    Katherine Fennelly
    Why do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? In Family Declassified, Katherine Fennelly applies her expertise as a social science researcher to answer this question regarding her maternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the US one hundred years ago. A Google search for ’Francis Kalnay’ yields more than 54,000 results-the vast majority...
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    18,44 €

  • 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 €

  • Pocket of Pain
    LadyWarfield
    Set in Northern and Richmond, Virginia, during the early to mid-’80s, Pocket of Pain is a poignant and inspirational coming-of-age story about a young woman who endures gaslighting and abuse, who eventually finds the courage to break free.As her parents’ marriage unravels, she falls into a relationship with a boy five years older-only to discover he is even more controlling tha...
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    15,16 €

  • 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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    35,86 €

  • 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 €


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