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1) Tono-Bungay
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1908
Physical Desc
17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of an apprentice chemist whose uncle's worthless medicine becomes a spectacular marketing success, Tono-Bungay earned H. G. Wells immediate acclaim when it appeared in 1909. It remains a sparkling chronicle of chicanery and human credulity, and is today regarded by many as Wells's greatest novel. As Andrea Barrett observes in her Introduction, "Through its detailed, often brilliant descriptions and powerful imagery, [Tono-Bungay] slyly satirizes...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships--with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others--and her...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life. Running away from school to pursue the two poets, De Quincey insinuated himself into their world. Basing his sensibility on Wordsworth's and his character on Coleridge's, he forged a triangle of unusual psychological complexity.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
1900
Edition
Haworth ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 670 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Company
Pub. Date
1906
Physical Desc
ix, 364 p. : front. (port.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Published in 1870, this was the first full-length biography of Jane Austen. Written by her nephew, it is filled with loving family remembrances as well as details of social and domestic life in rural England. Austen-Leigh's biography is the most influential source on Austen scholarship outside of Austen's own writings.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers Publishers
Pub. Date
1931
Edition
New and enlarged ed.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 457 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Only five of Emily Dickinson's poems were published while she lived; today, approximately 1,500 are in print. Dickinson's poetry reflects the power of her contemplative gifts, and her deep sensitivity courses through her correspondence as well. Lovingly compiled by a close friend, this first collection of Dickinson's letters originally appeared in 1894, only eight years after the poet's death. Although she grew reclusive in her later years and seldom...
9) Ian Fleming
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 486 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007, as Lycett shows in this full-length biography of Ian Fleming.
11) Beatrix Potter's gardening life: the plants and places that inspired the classic children's tales
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season...
Author
Language
English
Description
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1956
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
409 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is more than a biography of the great humorist from Niles, Michigan. In a penetrating full-length portrait, Donald Elder has explored Ring Lardner's whole world-the vibrant and inventive times in which he lived, the unforgettable people who surrounded him, and the impudent words that came from his typewriter. At the height of Lardner's fame in the middle twenties he was known simultaneously as a baseball reporter unlike any the world had ever...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1961, c1918
Physical Desc
xxiv, 517 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
Author
Publisher
J. B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
c1972
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Late John Marquand is an engrossing and well-studied literary biography of one of twentieth century America's finest writers of fiction, by the bestselling protégé who took up his mantle.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, first published in 1961, is biography of the first-lady, from her early childhood to her meeting and marriage with John F. Kennedy. The book ends with the family's move into the White House (and before the President's tragic assassination in November 1963). Author Mary Rensselaer Thayer worked closely with Mrs. Kennedy to produce the book, and it is reported that Jacqueline prepared much of the initial draft. Included are...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother was extremely complex. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit and hid her violent past. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showing affection to her children. When Alexie's mother passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook him to the core. In this deeply moving memoir, he writes about family, love, loss and forgiveness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer's stone cottage—on "a small acre" of land. Mary assumed duties as the island's district nurse. Call...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to...