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Victoria Ocampo: Against the Wind and the TideThe "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical...
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This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria OcampoGabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a...
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Conversations with Isabel AllendeThis revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books--City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. It includes four new interviews in which Allende discusses completing her trilogy of novels that began with House of the...
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian CrisisOn November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activists, and the international community reacted with outrage. From the Geneva based International Commission of Jurists (who called the executions a criminal act...
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War Within & Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944An account of the Lindberghs' wartime years, but most significantly the story of a bond between two extraordinary people. Introduction by the Author; Index; photographs. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookAuthor: Anne Morrow LindberghPublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 01/13/1995Pages: 512Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.50w...
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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920sThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed the lost generation, are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others escaped to Europe, as...
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Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers (Revised Edition)First revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand present-day Nicaragua Margaret Randall presents a dynamic collection of personal interviews with Nicaragua's most important writer-revolutionaries who played major roles in the 1979 revolution...
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Poisoned Lives: The Regency Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Lel) and British Gold Coast Administrator George MacLeanThis is a double biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, best-selling Regency poet known to her contemporaries as 'the female Byron', and her husband George Maclean, British administrator on the Gold Coast, known as the Father of Modern Ghana. L.E.L.'s reading public adored her writing...
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Journey Around My FlatJourney Around My Flat is the fourth in a series of five memoirs. Previous volumes are The Arithmetic of Memory (on growing up in Hampstead Garden Suburb), Silent Conversations (where the author draws on the books in his library to generate thoughts about reading...
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Aldous Huxley"An outstanding book."--James Sexton "A welcome and necessary update of the life of one of the twentieth century's most provocative intellectuals."--Dana Sawyer A rich and lucid account of Aldous Huxley's life and work. Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers....
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The Adventurous World of Mark TwainTwo of Mark Twain's best-known books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are adventure stories about young boys. From a young age, Mark loved to read, especially stories about robbers and adventurers. Learn more in The Adventurous World of...
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Jack LondonJack London (1876-1916) lived a life of excess by conventional standards. Daring, outspoken, politically radical, amazingly imaginative, and emotionally complicated, the author of literary classics such as The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf emerges in Kenneth K. Brandt's new biography as a...
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Letters to Lawrence Durrell 1937-1977Anais Nin and Lawrence Durrell, along with their mutual friend Henry Miller, formed a triumvirate they called the "three musketeers" in Paris during the 1930s. Not only did they support each other's work before becoming individually famous, (Nin for her Diary, Durrell for his...
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I Got the Dog: A Memoir of RisingI Got the Dog has teeth. Amanda Boyden's memoir is unflinching, poignant, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes brutally painful--the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream into the universe: I survived this And this. And this. Follow my lead. Dog tails Boyden from childhood in...
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The Ginger Man LettersShowcasing for the first time 250 of renowned author J.P. Donleavy's most intimate letters, this scrupulously edited collection throws an extraordinary light on the composition, publication and afterlife of The Ginger Man -- the genesis of a masterpiece that went on to sell 60...
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The Boy with Shoes: A Kenyan ChildhoodThe Boy with Shoes is about life in the 1980s in Mbale, a small town in Western Kenya. Hillary Lisimba Ambani is growing up with a strict disciplinarian mother whom he calls Thatcher who beat the hell out of him for every infraction he...
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the WaterThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice--the city, its history, and its treasures "Mr. Nooteboom . . . has] a highly distinctive voice--and often a new angle of vision. . . . The whole book is...
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The Light in the Dark: A Winter JournalAs November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days tighten into shorter hours, winter's occupation begins. Preparing for winter has its own rhythms, as old as our exchanges with the land. Of all the seasons, it draws us together. But winter can...
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The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the LifeSixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the...
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Stone FruitPatrice Powell is a New York-based magazine writer for European Art magazine. She reluctantly returns to her native Iowa to write a story about the death of Nan Wood Graham - the famous face of American Gothic. In returning to Iowa to research the...
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