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Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the...
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What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late...
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The Man in the Willows: The Life of Kenneth GrahameA moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it. During his regular days in London, Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the...
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On Leopard Rock: A Life of AdventuresThe first ever memoir from the Number One global bestselling adventure author Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was...
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The Real Alice in Wonderland: A Role Model for the AgesAlice Pleasance Liddell inspired what is considered today to be the greatest children's story of all time - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland brought Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll together forever. The story behind this story is a dramatic saga of...
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceHenry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881)....
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Only ChildFrank O'Connor was a shy child from a Cork slum who somehow became aware that there was something grander beyond his life and the lives around him."Frank O'Connor's early life of Michael O'Donovan belongs with the best of its kind. It is that of...
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Nine Continents: A Memoir in and Out of ChinaWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyXiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a curious mind coming of age...
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A Whole New Life: An Illness and a HealingReynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us...
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Letters to a Young PoetIn 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an...
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The Stone ChildWhat if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real? Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That's why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream...
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A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
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Journal 1887-1910A wry, observant masterpiece--one of the singular treasures of the French fin de siècle Written between the age of twenty-three and his death at age forty-six, Jules Renard's Journal 1887-1910 is a triumph of introspection and wit. One of the most celebrated figures of...
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The PlotAuthor: Jean Hanff KorelitzPublisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintPublished: 07/07/2021Pages: 594Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.67w x 1.02dISBN: 9781432888183
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Something of Myself: For My Friends, Known and Unknown - The Complete Unfinished AutobiographyThis unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author's early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his most famous books and poems.Little of this autobiography refers to the private life of the author, his purpose instead being...
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Who Was A. A. Milne?Find out how stories about his son's stuffed bear, famously known as Winnie the Pooh, made A. A. Milne one of the world's best-known children's authors in this informative biography from the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series, Who Was?. Born in England in...
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El Último En Morir / The Last to Die«Todos pueden morirse, menos el narrador, o la historia tambi n acaba en el pante n. He aqu una retorcida historia de amor. Nuestro prospecto de h roe ha de ganarse su papel en ella con las reglas que impuso desde ni o. No...
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George Orwell: A LifeA sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been...
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If You Knew Then What I Know NowNew York Magazine's The Year in Books pickThe Millions' A Year in Reading pickSalon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played...
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Over the Hills and Far AwayInspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a...
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