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Frantz Fanon - A Spiritual Biography by Patrick Ehlen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives and Legacies Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fanon's remarkable life is resurrected at the turn of the century in Martinique. The author recounts the trial of an ordinary family in extraordinary times, fusing social,economic and psychological elements which fed Frantz Fanon's intellect. The book reveals how a single man matures into a decorated wa ...Show more
In Rooms of Memory - Essays by Hilary Masters
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: American Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life—musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the piquant in ...Show more
Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Joan of Arc was born in 1412 and grew up during a time of invasion and civil war. At thirteen, she began to hear the voices of saints and followed their directives, believing they were sent to her by God. At seventeen, she rode into battle to rescue France from English domination in the Hundred Years Wa ...Show more
Johnson On Savage: An Account of The Life Of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers by Samual Johnson; Holmes Richard (ed)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives That Never Grow Old Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Lives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical new series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson's book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended ...Show more
Marcel Proust by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life by William Gray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
More than most writers, Robert Louis Stevenson requires a Literary Life. Fascination with Stevenson's life (the 'Stevenson biography' is almost a minor genre) has tended to eclipse his literary achievement. This study focuses on Stevenson's writing practice within the different geographical, cultural an ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Shelley by Daniel Hahn
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Poetic Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this new biography, Daniel Hahn paints a brilliant portrait of the outlandish genius who published Gothic horror novelettes in his teens and eloped with the daughter of a coffee-shop owner, but who went on to create some of England's finest poetry and to inspire countless future poets. Included in th ...Show more
The Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Robert Halsband (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives and Letters Ser. | Reading Level: good
The War Letters of General Monash by MACDOUGALL TONY
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Brief Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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