Cyril Connolly - Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones; Cyril Connolly
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Hermit in Paris - Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
This volume of posthumously collected personal writings of Italo Calvino range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed before his death in 1985. They examine major 20th-century events from a personal viewpoint, and provide a homage to his adoptive city, Paris.
Goethe - The History of a Man by Emil Ludwig
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Max and Will - Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein, Their Friendship and Letters 1893-1945 by Max Beerbohm; Mary Lago (Notes by); Karl Beckson (Notes by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Letters to Max Beerbohm from Siegfried Sassoon - With a Few Answers by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Hart-Davis (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Always Going Home - Lauris and Frances Edmond, A mother-and-daughter story by Frances Edmond
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Always Going Home is the compelling personal story of Frances Edmonds relationship with her beloved, complicated, difficult mother, the award-winning poet Lauris Edmond (19242000). This book takes a more intimate look at areas of Lauriss private life than have been detailed in previous family histories ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
'There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Behold, and rejoice.' - Tim Winton, author of CloudstreetWas he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was domin ...Show more
Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The Life and Works of Goethe by George Henry Lewes
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The Envoy from Mirror City - An Autobiography Volume Three by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The third volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, this text describes her travels overseas and entry into the world of writers and the Mirror City that sustains them.
The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield; Ian A Gordon (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good