The Letters of T.S.Eliot Volume I 1898-1922 by T.S. Eliot
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
Published on the centenary of his birth, this volume of the correspondence of T.S.Eliot covers the period from his childhood in St Louis, Missouri, until the end of 1922 - the year of "The Waste Land" and seven years after he had married and settled in England. The text includes not only letters of sign ...Show more
Maurice Gee - Life and Work by Rachel Barrowman
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand s greatest fiction writers. His long literary career began in the 1950s and includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for television and film. His work is loved by generations of readers and has earned him m ...Show more
My Century by Gunter Grass
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In a work of great originality, Germany's most eminent writer examines the victories and terrors of the twentieth century, a period of astounding change for mankind. Great events and seemingly trivial occurrences, technical developments and scientific achievements, war and disasters, and new beginnings, ...Show more
Gorky - A Biography by Henri Troyat; Lowell Bair (Translator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
How I Grew - A Memoir of the Early Years by Mary McCarthy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
How I Grew explores the young adulthood of Mary McCarthy, one of the most outspoken and prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century. Focusing on eight formative years of her life--from high school in the Seattle area through college at Vassar--McCarthy reveals a girl by turns vulnerable, independen ...Show more
The Sum of Our Days - A Memoir by Isabel Allende
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home.Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, The House of the Spirits, was based on her Chilean childhood, and ...Show more
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion: Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation-having first achieved ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature
Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Road' is Gee's sto ...Show more
Arthur Conan Doyle - A life in letters by Daniel Stashower, Jon Lellenberg & Charles Foley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
A collection of letters between Arthur Conan Doyle (author and creator of Sherlock Holmes) and his mother, covering most of his life, written between 1867 and the year of her death in 1921. Doyle was raised almost solely by his mother in Dickensian circumstances, (his father latterly suffered from dips ...Show more
Island to Island by Alistair Campbell
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Katherine Mansfield: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good