Autobiography: literary books

Matched only by Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a ""fresh and sagacious"" (The New Yorker) classic...  Read More >>

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This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father...  Read More >>

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography...  Read More >>

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist,...  Read More >>

When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous...  Read More >>

Japanese edition of On Writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King. The master writer Stephen King offers his...  Read More >>

Decades after his death, John Glassco remains Canada's most enigmatic literary figure, and this collection draws...  Read More >>

LICENCE TO 'QUOTE' is the first book of humorous quotations solely dedicated to the ever-expanding universe surrounding...  Read More >>

Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis...  Read More >>

With a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time, Lycett depicts...  Read More >>

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A revealing new biography of James Joyce--the first in more than fifty years--of one of the twentieth-century's...  Read More >>

Written in precise, rich prose of rare beauty, organized--like human memory--in interconnected fragments that eschew...  Read More >>

From his rare vantage point as Lewis student, friend, and professional colleague, Professor John Lawlor offers an...  Read More >>

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BY MEN OR BY THE EARTH is the story of the corporate lawyer who walked out on a six-figure salary, prestige, and...  Read More >>

Controversial biography of the twentieth-century master of literary reportage  Read More >>

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Joachim Ringelnatz: Mein Leben bis zum Kriege Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2013...  Read More >>

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated...  Read More >>

An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated...  Read More >>

Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides ""a fascinating exploration of writers and their families"" (Entertainment...  Read More >>

A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diem What is the value of the durable at a...  Read More >>

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