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Fido, Martin: The World of Charles Dickens
Book Number: 31404
Carlton Books, 1997 4to hardcover 144pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Looks at the life and works of Dickens, describes what life was like during the times in which he lived, and surveys the stage and screen adaptations of his works.
Keywords: Poetry Drama Criticism History Biography The World of Charles Dickens Fido Martin
Price: $18.00 |
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Miller, Dan B.: Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road
Book Number: 31446
New York Knopf 1995 8vo hardcover 459pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. A major new biography, Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road presents the fascinating life and times of a prolific and profoundly influential -- yet nearly forgotten -- figure in American literature.nnIn the 1930S and '40s, Erskine Caldwell's impassioned work dealing with the Southern poor -- most notably, the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre -- earned him wide critical acclaim. Although many Southerners reviled him for his brutal exposes of their region, literary scholars at the time ranked him alongside Fitzgerald, Wolfe, and Steinbeck. William Faulkner thought him one of America's five greatest novelists, and as late as 1960, Caldwell was under consideration for the Nobel Prize.nnAlthough Caldwell worked for years in abject poverty, eventually his commercial success matched his lofty critical standing. The dramatic adaptation of Tobacco Road became the biggest hit in Broadway history, and paperback editions of Caldwell's novels -- frequently under attack for their explicit sexuality -- sold in record numbers around the globe. By the 1960s, in fact, his publicists declared him "The World's Best-Selling Novelist," and by 1970 he had written more than one hundred short stories and twenty-five novels. This should have secured Caldwell an enduring place in America's literary history, but today he is largely forgotten, one of the great disappearing acts in American letters.nnCaldwell's personal life was no less complicated than his professional one, and Dan B. Miller's evocation of it is uncommonly subtle and provocative. Lonely and isolated as a boy; Caldwell treated his own children with alternating neglect and brutality. He was married four times (once to the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White), had a number of extramarital affairs, drank heavily, and was prone to violent mood swings.
Keywords: Biography Erskine Caldwell The Journey from Tobacco Road Miller Dan B
Price: $22.00 |
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Englebert, Omer: The Hero of Molokai Father Damien, Apostle of the Lepers
Book Number: 31574
Homebush, Daughters of St. Paul, 1954 8vo softcover 300pp. very good.
Keywords: The Hero of Molokai Father Damien, Apostle of the Lepers colony hawaii
Price: $14.00 |
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Nyala, Hannah: Point Last Seen
Book Number: 31652
Sydney Hodder 1997 8vo softcover 168pp index, b/w illus. very good. Having escaped an abusive marriage, Hannah Nyala and her children were chased by her husband across the country. When her husband abducted the children, Hannah joined a National Park and searched for meaning to her life, using the tracking skills she had
Keywords: Biography Autobiography General Point Last Seen Nyala Hannah
Price: $10.00 |
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Boswell, James [Johnson, Samuel]: The Life of Samuel Johnson. 3 volumes
Book Number: 31723
London Navarre Society Limited, 1924 8vos. hardcovers. cloth with gilt decorations & lettering. pp.434,480,578. b/w frontis'' with tissue guards, cloth markers. very good, owner''s bookplates inside front covers. / good+ d/ws.
Keywords: Life of Samuel Johnson
Price: $350.00 |
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Adams, Richard: The day gone by : an autobiography
Book Number: 31785
Hutchinson 1990 8vo hardcover 398pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Adams (author of Watership Down ) divides his life into an idyllic early childhood, his loss of innocence at boarding school after age eight, and his treasured years at Oxford. Those years ended abruptly with the onset of World War II, which hurled him into adulthood. Living in pastoral surroundings, Adams begins to appreciate nature in the first phase of his life under the guidance of his physician father.
Keywords: History Military World War II Personal Narratives The day gone by an autobiography Adams Richard
Price: $18.00 |
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Morgan, Janet: AGATHA CHRISTIE : BIOGRAPHY
Book Number: 31798
Knopf 1985 8vo hardcover 393pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Literature Fiction World Literature British 20th Century AGATHA CHRISTIE BIOGRAPHY Morgan Janet
Price: $25.00 |
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St. Clair, William: Trelawny : the incurable romancer
Book Number: 31804
Vanguard 1977 8vo hardcover 235pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Trelawny the incurable romancer St Clair William
Price: $25.00 |
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Devlin, Christopher: The life of Robert Southwell: Poet and Martyr
Book Number: 31931
London, Sidgwick & Jackson 1967 8vo. softcover. 368pp. index, good.
Keywords: The life of Robert Southwell: Poet and Martyr
Price: $12.00 |
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Givner, Joan: The Life of Katherine Anne Porter
Book Number: 31875
Cape 1983 8vo hardcover 572pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Bargain Books The Life of Katherine Anne Porter Givner Joan
Price: $15.00 |
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