American Bloomsbury - Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such che ...Show more
Incest - From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1932-1934 by Anaïs Nin; Rupert Pole (Introduction by); Gunther Stuhlmann (Notes by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Ernest Hemingway - Selected Letters 1917-1961 by Ernest Hemingway; Carlos Baker (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
Almost 600 letters written by Ernest Hemingway between 1917 and 1961 that provide an intimate portrait of one of the most original and influential American writers. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. With ...Show more
Our Friend James Joyce by Mary Colum; Padraic Colum
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Where Shall We Run To? - A Memoir by Alan Garner
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb's boom, and two big explosions." David's father came back from Burma and didn't eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting "The Pied Piper of Hamelin ...Show more
A Marriage of True Minds - An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf by George Spater; Ian Parsons
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Paper Darts - The illustrated letters of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf; Frances Spalding (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
With William Burroughs - A Report from the Bunker by Victor Bockris
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A trove of intimate conversations between Burroughs and Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and more icons of '70s New York and beyond. During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City's Lower East Side. Christened "The ...Show more
Yevgeny Yevtushenko - A Precocious Autobiography by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Raising Raffi - A book about fatherhood (for people who would never read such a book) by Keith Gessen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: near fine
'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - New York Times Keith Gessen had always assumed that he would have kids, but couldn't imagine what parenthood would be like, nor what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, Raffi was born, a child as real and comp ...Show more
Cyril Connolly - Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones; Cyril Connolly
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Hermit in Paris - Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
This volume of posthumously collected personal writings of Italo Calvino range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed before his death in 1985. They examine major 20th-century events from a personal viewpoint, and provide a homage to his adoptive city, Paris.