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iUniverse Stain the Water Clear A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin Columns 19932002
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iUniverse The Average American Son
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iUniverse HG Wells at the End of His Tether His Social and Political Adventures
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iUniverse Ray Bradbury Uncensored The Unauthorized Biography
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iUniverse The Noble Legacy The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble Cofounder of the Barnes Noble and Noble Noble Book Companies
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iUniverse By a River on a Hill
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iUniverse His Story Mustafa Kemal and Turkish Revolution
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iUniverse A Questing Life The Search for Meaning
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iUniverse Land of Childhood
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HarperCollins After Lives
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Random House USA Inc The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Book SynopsisStein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.
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Random House USA Inc Jane Austen
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University of Queensland Press Only Happiness Here
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HarperCollins Publishers A Lasting Record
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Pluto Press Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary
Book SynopsisA biography of one of England's greatest poets, uncovering his radical, political influence.Trade Review'Humankind needed Shelley back then, and this book reminds us of how much we need him now. It is an honest look at a truly revolutionary life' -- Benjamin Zephaniah'I love reading. I'm about to start Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen' -- Jeremy Corbyn'A compelling and eye-opening study. Reminds us of Shelley's robust socio-political vision, that remains as relevant and vital for our own volatile times' -- Stephen C. Behrendt; George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska'Fresh, clear and compelling, this is the best compact account of Percy Bysshe Shelley's revolutionary life currently available' -- Nicholas Roe, Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews'Highly readable, this is an absorbing study of Shelley's life, thought, and writing. Jacqueline Mulhallen has written a valuable book' -- Michael O’Neill, Professor of English, Durham University'A fresh and impassioned account of the significance of Shelley's radical life and writings. A fine and highly readable achievement' -- Michael Rossington, Professor of Romantic Literature, Newcastle University'An excellent biographical account of Shelley's political radicalism ... that brings a contemporary radical sensibility into bracing conjunction with nineteenth-century history' -- Philip Connell, Romantic Circles'Lively, well-paced and highly readable ... packed with fascinating insights into Shelley's times' -- Counterfire'Enjoyable' -- Peace News'Illuminating ... [a] stimulating introduction to Shelley's life and radical politics' -- Romantic CirclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue 1. Shelley’s Family Background and Education: 1792-1811 2. The Lake District, Ireland and Devon: 1811-13 3. Tremadog, Queen Mab and the ‘Hermit of Marlow’: 1813-18 4. Italy and Shelley’s Annus Mirabilis: 1818-19 5. Satire and Drama: 1819-22 Notes Index
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Daniel Defoe His Life
Book SynopsisDaniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on many major political, religious and social controversies. This biography offers an account of Defoe's life, revealing his secret career as a double agent, his dangerous pen and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it.Trade ReviewFor the first time everything we know about Defoe is presented in a single orderly sequence..A searching study of a complex man, one that is coherent and credible for our times. New York Times Book Review A very considerable work of scholarship, and the first to give this prolific writer the extended treatment he after all deserves. Washington Post Book World Paula Backscheider spins this absorbing narrative with meticulous scholarship and lucidity. Independent on SundayTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part I: 1660-1703Chapter 1. Fire and Plague Chapter 2.Merchant-Rebel Chapter 3. Bankrupt Chapter 4. Recovery Chapter 5. FugitiveChapter 6. Prison Part II: 1703-1714Chapter 7. Four Hundred Thousand Words Chapter 8. The Literary Effort of a LifetimeChapter 9. New Life Chapter 10. A terrible People Chapter 11. Political Maelstrom Chapter 12. The Goliath of the Party Chapter 13. A Team of Writers Part III: 1714-1731Chapter 14. Six Hundred Thousand Words Chapter 15. A Discontented People Chapter 16. A Penetrating Eye Chapter 17. The Whole World in Motion Chapter 18. Projects and Designs Chapter 19. Changes and Disasters Epilogue: Bred in the Bone Notes Bibliography Index
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Random House USA Inc Travels
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Random House USA Inc The Periodic Table
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Random House USA Inc The Orientalist Solving the Mystery of a Strange
Book SynopsisA thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’s panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “Essad Bey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal-and sometimes as heartbreaking-as his subject’s life.
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Random House USA Inc Letter to My Daughter
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a &ldquo
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Random House USA Inc The Heart of a Woman
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Unm Press Mark Twain Remembered
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Sunstone Press Lorenzo in Taos Southwest Heritage
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Apf Limited Beyond Belief The real Life of Daniel Defoe
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Dead Good Publications Tolkien in East Yorkshire 1917 1918
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Life Is Amazing Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light 18871920 1 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Paranormal
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Book Mill Margaret Forster A Life in Books
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Eio Books What DONCHA KNOW about HENRY MILLER
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New Century Books The Man Who Changed His Skin
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Hippocampus Press Letters to James F Morton
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Brackish Publishing James Weldon Johnson Songwriter
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Manticore Press Ernst Jnger A Portrait
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The Book Mill A Passionate Sisterhood
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Garanuug Limited Hal Tisqaaday Halabuurkii Cali Sugulle Duncarbeed
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Legare Street Press Jane Austen Her Life and Letters
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Legare Street Press A Guide to the Stage
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Legare Street Press Jane Austen Her Life and Letters
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