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Hemingway: A BiographyDistinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the...
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The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in WonderlandIn The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Jenny Woolf brings to life the brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory creator of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. Reveling in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life, Carroll always--at least in part--seemed...
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Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley was a blustery coward, an arrogant, misogynistic racist with fascist leanings, and a callous user, as often threatened by his sexuality as he claimed to be liberated by it. But he was also a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary...
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My Own Two FeetTold in her own words, My Own Two Feet is Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary's second heartfelt and relatable memoir.The New Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs, A Girl From Yamhill, "a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel."Now the creator...
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper LeeNew York Times Bestseller "A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we'll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life." --USA Today There are many reasons to be grateful for The Mockingbird Next Door....A zesty account of two women...
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Lettres à l'AmazoneLettres à l'AmazoneCes lettres sont des lettres et non des traits. Il y est parl de tout et mme de rien. Les sujets sy entremlent comme les brins dherbe dune prairie. Il ne faut se fier que fort peu aux titres qui les dcorent...
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The pretender: A story of the Latin QuarterThe pretender: A story of the Latin QuarterWith this reflexion I let myself collapse into a padded chair of transcendent comfort, lit a cigarette and inspected once more the amazing bank-book. Since I had seen it last several credit entries had been madeover twenty...
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American literary mastersAmerican literary mastersThe nineteen men of letters whose work is reviewed in this volume represent an important half-century of our national literary life. The starting-point is the year 1809, the date of A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker. No author is included...
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Michael FieldMichael FieldSOME years ago the writer of this book discovered to herself the work of Michael Field, with fresh delight at every step of her adventure through the lyrics, the tragedies, and later devotional poems. But she was amazed to find that no one...
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A happy half-century, and other essaysA happy half-century, and other essaysThe half-century, whose more familiar aspects this little book is designed to illustrate, has spread its boundary lines. Nothing is so hard to deal with as a period. Nothing is so unmanageable as a date. People will be born...
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Carlyle's laugh, and other surprisesCarlyle's laugh, and other surprisesThe two papers in this volume which bear the titles A Keats Manuscript and A Shelley Manuscript are reprinted by permission from a work called Book and Heart, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, copyright, 1897, by Harper and Brothers, with whose...
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The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIThe Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, Parts I and IIALEXANDER HERZEN was born in Moscow on March 25,[1] 1812, six months before Napoleon arrived at the gates of the city with what was left of his Grand Army. He died in Paris on January 9,...
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RecollectionsRecollections - The Reminiscences of the Busy Life of One Who Has Played the Varied Parts of Sailor, Author & LecturerIt may very well be that I am doing something now which is totally unnecessary, indeed that is a foregone conclusion as far as...
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Hadrian the 7thHadrian the SeventhIn Obedience to the Decree of Urban P.M. VIII, I declare that I have no Intention of attributing any other than a purely human Authority to the Miracles, Revelations, Favours, & particular Cases, recorded in this Book; & the same as regards...
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Memories and AdventuresMemories and AdventuresI was born on May 22, 1859, at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, so named because in old days a colony of French Huguenots had settled there. At the time of their coming it was a village outside the City walls, but now it...
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Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herselfLife of Frances Power Cobbe, as told by herself - with additions by the author, and introduction by Blanche AtkinsonMy life has been an interesting one to live and I hope that this record of it may not prove too dull to read. The...
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MårbackaMårbacka ONCE they had a nursemaid at Mrbacka who was called Back-Kaisa. She must have been all of six feet high. She had a large-featured, swarthy, stern-looking face, her hands were hard and full of cracks, in which the childrens hair would catch when...
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Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man A Study in Christian IntegrationHilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian IntegrationPoet, sailor, Grizzlebeardthis trinity sums up, not only the man who is Hilaire Belloc, but the vision of integrated humanity concretized in his work. Bellocian humanism is Hilaire Belloc grasped in the essence of his...
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Victor Hugo à vingt ans: Glanes romantiquesVictor Hugo à vingt ans: Glanes romantiquesElles ont trouv place par extraits dans le tome premier de la Correspondance de Victor Hugo[1] et ont fourni M. Louis Belton, avocat Blois, matire une fort attachante tude: Victor Hugo et son Pre, le gnral Hugo Blois[2]. Publie...
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The Truth About an AuthorThe Truth About an Author Sometime in the last century I was for several years one of the most regular contributors to "The Academy," under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Hind and the ownership of Mr. Morgan Richards. The work was constant; but the...
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