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Later Auden by Edward Mendelson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The definitive study of Auden's poems from 1939 to 1973. "For a poet like myself, an autobiography is redundant," W. H. Auden wrote to a friend, "since anything of importance that happens to one is immediately incorporated, however obscurely, in a poem." This book is the history of Auden's poems, and o ...Show more
Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Alexander Larman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'. He went to Oxford University at the age of 12 He slept with his first prostitute at 13 He was an alcoholic by 14 He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18 He was acclaimed a war hero at 19 He died of syphilis at the age of 33 He was English history's first celebrity. He was ...Show more
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume 5 1922-1923 by Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott (eds)
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Katherine Mansfield's letters are as finely written as her stories and prized by ordinary readers as much as by literary critics and feminists. The fifth and final volume of this celebrated edition reveals Mansfield's courage, wit, independence, and honesty in the final year of her life.
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy - a book that has already become a bestseller in its Spanish-language edition both abroad and in the United States - the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez begins to tell us the ...Show more
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by Kenneth Tynan; John Lahr (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
For over three decades, on both sides of the Atlantic, Tynan was at the hot centre of the theatre and film worlds. He knew everybody; and everybody wanted to know him. His diaries so full of gossip bear witness to the fame he courted and the price he paid for it. These sizzling diaries will remind older ...Show more
The Journals Of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Karen V Kukil (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of t ...Show more
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 by Richard Layman (Editor); Julie M. Rivett (Editor); Josephine Hammett Marshall (Introduction by); Dashiell Hammett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
This work is compiled of the letters, both private and professional, of Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade. In his five great crime novels, all of them written between 1927 and 1935, Dashiell Hammett gave America a cast of immortal characters - Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and Nick and Nora Charle ...Show more
Dirt & Deity - A Life of Robert Burns by Ian McIntyre
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
This biography illuminates and explores the complexities and contradictions of Burns's character and personality, untangling the myth from the legend. Based on new evidence from 700 letters Burns wrote during his life, McIntyre concentrates on the circumstances of the writing of poetry itself, and paint ...Show more
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so ...Show more
Dorothy L. Sayers - A Biography by James Brabazon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A Voice from Old New York - A Memoir of my Youth by Louis Auchincloss
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss--enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh--had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: "himself." His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was the most entertaining character he has created. No ...Show more
To the Is-Land by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
To the Is-land is the first book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holryod as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It chronicles her childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 30s. ...Show more