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A Sort of Life A Sort of Life Graham Greene 160p OL106048W
Life of Jane Austen Life of Jane Austen Goldwin Smith “The first and best chapter contains an excellent sketch of Jane Austen’s life; the other chapters analyze her novels with delicate taste and fine critical faculty.” – Standard Catalog for Public Li… OL1090431W
Anne Thackeray Ritchie Anne Thackeray Ritchie Anne Thackeray Ritchie Peopled with such literary figures as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864–65 and… OL1147067W
The Brideshead Generation The Brideshead Generation Humphrey Carpenter Biographical and literary study. Oxford in the 1920s and Waugh's life afterwards. OL12072301W
The herring-seller's apprentice The herring-seller's apprentice L. C. Tyler A darkly subversive take on the detective novel, peopled by a memorable cast of eccentrics. OL13683855W
Blue remembered hills a recollection Blue remembered hills a recollection Rosemary Sutcliff The well-known author of historical novels for young people describes her childhood and youth and her struggles with the devastating effects of rheumatoid arthritis. OL1417710W
A Prison Diary A Prison Diary Jeffrey Archer,FF 8282 Please see https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1807104W OL1807104W
Jane Austen Jane Austen Carol Shields With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the p… OL18331W
Testament of friendship Testament of friendship Vera Brittain In her famous volume of autobiography, *Testament of Youth*, now an acclaimed BBC/PBS television serial, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonizing years of the First World War, lamenting the … OL1971471W
A house unlocked A house unlocked Penelope Lively Penelope Lively has turned her considerable literary talent to non-fiction with A House Unlocked, a marvellous, meandering collection of memories inspired by Golsoncott, the Somerset country home occ… OL1983006W
Oleander, Jacaranda Oleander, Jacaranda Penelope Lively A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s… OL1983041W
Brave Jane Austen Brave Jane Austen Lisa Pliscou 1 volume (unpaged) : 29 cm OL20169622W
Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jane Austen Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jane Austen Connie Ann, Ph.D. Kirk 144 pages : 24 cm OL20474884W
Meet Me in the In-Between Meet Me in the In-Between Bella Pollen 321 pages : 23 cm OL21149294W
Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf? Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf? Irene Coates Was Virginia Woolf suicidal, or was she betrayed and driven to taking her own life? Irene Coates argues, with forensic precision, that Leonard Woolf was responsible for the unravelling of his wife's … OL221630W
The Journals and Letters The Journals and Letters Fanny Burney Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her even… OL2251989W
I Didn't Get Where I Am Today I Didn't Get Where I Am Today David Nobbs THE MAGNIFICENT, HILARIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN WHO CREATED THE IMMORTAL REGINALD PERRINAs a small boy David Nobbs survived the Second World War unscathed, until his bedroom ceiling fell on him w… OL2447052W
Snapshots of Bloomsbury Snapshots of Bloomsbury Humm, Maggie. The private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in pictures. OL2645638W
Trollope Trollope Norman John Hall Trollope was in his thirties before his first novel was published; before his death at sixty-seven he had written nearly seventy books, as well as conducting a quite separate career in the Post Offic… OL2657141W
In Search of Anne Bronte In Search of Anne Bronte Nick Holland 287 pages : 20 cm OL27799537W
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