Autobiography: literary books

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Man Who Invented Christmas, The: How Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

Man Who Invented Christmas, The: How Charles Dickens's...
Author: Les Standiford ISBN: 9781299004603 Format: Electronic book text	$118.72
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal... Read More >>

Long Embrace

Long Embrace
Author: Judith Freeman ISBN: 9781299019836 Format: Electronic book text	$134.24
Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of... Read More >>

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
Author: Esther Schor (Princeton University, New Jersey) ISBN: 9781299128316 Format: Electronic book text	$221.36
Part of the Jewish Encounter series Emma Lazarus's most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her... Read More >>

White Heat

White Heat
Author: Brenda Wineapple ISBN: 9781283994736 Format: Electronic book text	$142.56
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The World Is What It Is

The World Is What It Is
Author: Patrick French ISBN: 9781299014534 Format: Electronic book text	$134.64
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself

I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Author: Bill Bryson ISBN: 9781299092914 Format: Electronic book text	$126.64
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER After living in Britain for two decades,... Read More >>

Polish Memories

Polish Memories
Author: Witold Gombrowicz ISBN: 9781283950282 Format: Electronic book text	$68.64
A series of autobiographical sketches that Gombrowicz composed for Radio Free Europe during his years in Argentina... Read More >>

Touch and Go: A Memoir

Touch and Go: A Memoir
Author: Sydney Lewis , Studs Terkel ISBN: 9798200138715 Format: Audio	$121.31
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Touch and Go: A Memoir

Touch and Go: A Memoir
Author: Sydney Lewis , Studs Terkel ISBN: 9798200138708 Format: Audio	$131.97
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Walden

Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau ISBN: 9781599866109 Format: Paperback	$18.45
This handsome, affordable paperback edition is based on the original 1854 edition with emendations taken from Thoreau's... Read More >>

Biographia Literaria

Biographia Literaria
Author: Taylor Coleridg Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Samuel Taylor Coleridge ISBN: 9781604245349 Format: Paperback	$46.07
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Dlb 338: Thomas Carlyle: A Documentary Volume

Dlb 338: Thomas Carlyle: A Documentary Volume
Author: E Frances Frame ISBN: 9780787681562 Format: Hardback	$792.00
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and... Read More >>

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
Author: E Lynn Harris ISBN: 9781415951392 Format: Downloadable audio file	$175.56
In his most daring act yet, Harris writes the memoir of his life--from his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay... Read More >>

Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir

Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir
Author: Robert Hughes ISBN: 9780307385987 Format: Paperback	$42.11
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of... Read More >>

Touch and Go: A Memoir

Touch and Go: A Memoir
Author: Studs Terkel , Norman Dietz ISBN: 9781400125883 Format: Downloadable audio file	$92.37
At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyones life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers... Read More >>

Alas Para Vivir

Alas Para Vivir
Author: Richard Bach ISBN: 9788466629928 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Fifty years ago Richard Bach made a promise to himself when he was a child: to write a book containing the sum of... Read More >>

Letters of Ted Hughes

Letters of Ted Hughes
Author: Ted Hughes , Christopher Reid ISBN: 9780571221387 Format: Hardback	$69.99
Delve into the letters of one of the most respected and cherished poets of the 20th century. Read More >>

Albums of a Life

Albums of a Life
Author: Stanley Kauffmann ISBN: 9781931357531 Format: Hardback	$79.20
In an age of narrow self interest, with memoirs falling from the press like autumn leaves in a high wind, Stanley... Read More >>

The Old Asians Clap

The Old Asians Clap
Author: John Dempsey ISBN: 9780971107281 Format: Paperback	$34.19
The Dempsey saga continues with the story of one man's love/hate relationship with New York and its varied inhabitants.... Read More >>

The World is a Wedding

The World is a Wedding
Author: Bernard Kops ISBN: 9781905512331 Format: Paperback	$25.85
An autobiography of Bernard Kops, playwright. It concerns his early years, including in London's East End. Read More >>

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Author: Anthony Trollope ISBN: 9781599866185 Format: Paperback	$26.37
It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had... Read More >>

Mozambique Mysteries

Mozambique Mysteries
Author: Lisa St. Aubin De Teran ISBN: 9781844083008 Format: Hardback	$65.87
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From Ghouls to Gangsters: The Career of Arthur B. Reeve: Vol2

From Ghouls to Gangsters: The Career of Arthur B. Reeve:...
Author: Arthur B Reeve , John Locke ISBN: 9780978683665 Format: Paperback	$52.80
Volume 2 (nonfiction) is the definitive book on Reeve's life and work. It includes a lengthy career biography of... Read More >>

Something about the Author

Something about the Author
Author: Maikue Vang ISBN: 9780787688066 Format: Hardback	$506.88
Each illustrated volume provides generously illustrated biographical articles on 100-120 children's authors and... Read More >>

A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe

A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced...
Author: Geoffrey Hartman ISBN: 9780823228324 Format: Hardback	$139.95
Over the years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped... Read More >>

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