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The autobiography of a super-tramp
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W. H. Davies |
“A young poet tramped across America, crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic as a cattleman, begged and peddled in England, developing meanwhile in the power to write with rare perception and beauty.”
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The genius in my basement
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Alexander Masters |
"Simon Norton won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad at the age of 15 and again at 16; folks said he was the greatest English mathematician since Sir Isaac Newton. A Daily Mail headline … |
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Every love story is a ghost story
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D. T. Max |
"The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with… |
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Chaucer's Tale
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Paul Strohm |
In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that he
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Bookmarked
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Wendy W. Fairey |
"Wendy W. Fairey grew up among books. Her mother, the famous Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last love--he died in her living room in 1940. As part of a 'College of One'… |
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El mundo amarillo
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Albert Espinosa |
El mundo amarillo es un mundo fantástico que quiero compartir contigo. Es el mundo de los descubrimientos que hice durante los diez años que estuve enfermo de cáncer. Es curioso, pero la fuerza, la v… |
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Curiosity
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Alberto Manguel |
"Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared und… |
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The Tastemaker
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Edward White |
"A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era"-- |
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The shadow in the garden
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James Atlas |
"The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz. The biographer--so often in the shadow… |
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Out with it
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Katherine Preston |
"A fresh, engaging account of a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character. Imagine this: … |
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Dashiell Hammett
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Sally Cline |
"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the fig… |
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Wilfred Owen
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Guy Cuthbertson |
"One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite… |
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The Mockingbird next door
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Marja Mills |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author has said almost nothing on the record. Journa… |
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Rebel Souls
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Justin Martin |
"In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to poetic immortality. Rebel Souls is the first book ever writ… |
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The removers
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Andrew Meredith |
"A literature professor, ... Andrew Meredith's father was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It's a transgression [he] cannot forgive, for it brought about long-lasting familia… |
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God'll cut you down
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John Safran |
"An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story about race, money, sex, and power in the modern American South"-- |
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Publishing
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Gail Godwin |
"A personal story of a writer's hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul--for Gail Godwin, forty-five years of being a published writer and all that goes with it. A st… |
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Follies of God
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James Grissom |
"An extraordinary book that masterfully illuminates the dream-like writing world of Tennessee Williams; the actresses he worked with and those who inspired him to create his Amanda Wingfield, his Bla… |
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Ostende
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Volker Weidermann |
In 1936 brengt een groep Duitse schrijvers onder wie Stefan Zweig en Joseph Roth, die op de vlucht zijn voor nazi-Duitsland, de zomer door in Oostende. |
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Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
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Robert J. Norrell |
"It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobio… |
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