Literary Criticism and Biography
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"There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me
Written by Eva Gabrielsson
Contribution by Marie-Francoise Colombani
Translated by Linda Coverdale
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-410-7 (1-60980-410-4)
Eva Gabrielsson, long-time partner to Millennium Trilogy author, Stieg Larsson, tells of their thirty-year love story, of Stieg’s life-long struggle to expose Sweden’s right-wing extremists, of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive, his difficult relationships with his family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the... Read more >
Written by Eva Gabrielsson
Contribution by Marie-Francoise Colombani
Translated by Linda Coverdale
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-410-7 (1-60980-410-4)
Eva Gabrielsson, long-time partner to Millennium Trilogy author, Stieg Larsson, tells of their thirty-year love story, of Stieg’s life-long struggle to expose Sweden’s right-wing extremists, of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive, his difficult relationships with his family, and the joy and relief he discovered writing the... Read more >
"There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me
Written by Eva Gabrielsson
Contribution by Marie-Francoise Colombani
Translated by Linda Coverdale
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-363-6 (1-60980-363-9)
Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. In “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their... Read more >
Written by Eva Gabrielsson
Contribution by Marie-Francoise Colombani
Translated by Linda Coverdale
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-363-6 (1-60980-363-9)
Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. In “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their... Read more >
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Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72214-8 (0-385-72214-1)
Winner of the CHRISTIAN GAUSS AWARD for Literary Scholarship
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72214-8 (0-385-72214-1)
Winner of the CHRISTIAN GAUSS AWARD for Literary Scholarship
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over... Read more >
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The Use and Abuse of Literature
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42434-2 (0-375-42434-2)
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber (“One of the most powerful women in the academic world.”—The New York Times) aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42434-2 (0-375-42434-2)
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber (“One of the most powerful women in the academic world.”—The New York Times) aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore... Read more >
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The Use and Abuse of Literature
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27712-1 (0-307-27712-7)
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking.
But what is... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27712-1 (0-307-27712-7)
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking.
But what is... Read more >
Passionate Nomad
The Life of Freya Stark
Written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 24, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75746-4 (0-375-75746-5)
Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.
Leaving behind a miserable family life, Freya set out... Read more >
The Life of Freya Stark
Written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 24, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75746-4 (0-375-75746-5)
Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.
Leaving behind a miserable family life, Freya set out... Read more >
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If It Die . . .
An Autobiography
Written by Andre Gide
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72606-4 (0-375-72606-3)
This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.
Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary... Read more >
An Autobiography
Written by Andre Gide
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2001
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72606-4 (0-375-72606-3)
This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters.
Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary... Read more >
James Joyce's Ulysses
Written by Stuart Gilbert
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1955
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70013-7 (0-394-70013-9)
With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert... Read more >
Written by Stuart Gilbert
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 1955
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70013-7 (0-394-70013-9)
With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert... Read more >
The Birth of Pleasure
Written by Carol Gilligan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75943-0 (0-679-75943-3)
Carol Gilligan, whose classic In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now offers a brilliant, provocative book about love. Why is love so often associated with tragedy, she asks. Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns?
Gilligan observes children... Read more >
Written by Carol Gilligan
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75943-0 (0-679-75943-3)
Carol Gilligan, whose classic In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now offers a brilliant, provocative book about love. Why is love so often associated with tragedy, she asks. Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns?
Gilligan observes children... Read more >
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Elizabeth Bowen
Written by Victoria Glendinning
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27740-4 (0-307-27740-2)
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living.
Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen’s Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as an air-raid warden... Read more >
Written by Victoria Glendinning
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 5, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27740-4 (0-307-27740-2)
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living.
Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen’s Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as an air-raid warden... Read more >
Me and Shakespeare
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49818-0 (0-385-49818-7)
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49818-0 (0-385-49818-7)
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
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G. R. S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest
Edited by Clare Goodrick-Clarke
Introduction by Clare Goodrick-Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-572-0 (1-55643-572-X)
George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) was a major translator, editor, and commentator on Gnostic and hermetic literature and thus a pivotal figure linking the late 19th-century esoteric revival to 20th-century art, literature, and psychology. As a young convert to the new movement of theosophy, he served as private secretary to its... Read more >
Edited by Clare Goodrick-Clarke
Introduction by Clare Goodrick-Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-572-0 (1-55643-572-X)
George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) was a major translator, editor, and commentator on Gnostic and hermetic literature and thus a pivotal figure linking the late 19th-century esoteric revival to 20th-century art, literature, and psychology. As a young convert to the new movement of theosophy, he served as private secretary to its... Read more >
Eva Braun
Life with Hitler
Written by Heike B. Gortemaker
Translated by Damion Searls
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59582-9 (0-307-59582-X)
The first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun: an authoritative reassessment of her role in Hitler’s life, which gives us, as well, an astonishingly revealing portrait of Hitler and his inner circle.
In this groundbreaking book, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker reveals the real woman behind the myth of the vapid blonde with... Read more >
Life with Hitler
Written by Heike B. Gortemaker
Translated by Damion Searls
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59582-9 (0-307-59582-X)
The first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun: an authoritative reassessment of her role in Hitler’s life, which gives us, as well, an astonishingly revealing portrait of Hitler and his inner circle.
In this groundbreaking book, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker reveals the real woman behind the myth of the vapid blonde with... Read more >
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Personal History
Written by Katharine Graham
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70104-7 (0-375-70104-4)
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.
It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private... Read more >
Written by Katharine Graham
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70104-7 (0-375-70104-4)
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.
It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private... Read more >
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College of One
Written by Sheilah Graham
Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-283-3 (1-61219-283-1)
In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack in her apartment in 1940, the two writers lived the fervid... Read more >
Written by Sheilah Graham
Afterword by Wendy W. Fairey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-283-3 (1-61219-283-1)
In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack in her apartment in 1940, the two writers lived the fervid... Read more >
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books
The Life of Emily Dickinson
Written by Alfred Habegger
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6601-5 (0-8129-6601-5)
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents... Read more >
The Life of Emily Dickinson
Written by Alfred Habegger
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 17, 2002
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6601-5 (0-8129-6601-5)
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents... Read more >
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Sin and Syntax
How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Written by Constance Hale
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0309-7 (0-7679-0309-9)
From the acclaimed author of the controversial Wired Style, this is a wickedly funny and highly practical guide to good grammar that looks at both classic and nontraditional examples of effective prose-from the basics of nouns, verbs, and sentence structure to the lyrical yet unlawful constructs of television commercials and hip-hop... Read more >
How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Written by Constance Hale
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0309-7 (0-7679-0309-9)
From the acclaimed author of the controversial Wired Style, this is a wickedly funny and highly practical guide to good grammar that looks at both classic and nontraditional examples of effective prose-from the basics of nouns, verbs, and sentence structure to the lyrical yet unlawful constructs of television commercials and hip-hop... Read more >
Hit Lit
Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers
Written by James W. Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7095-1 (0-8129-7095-0)
What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and... Read more >
Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers
Written by James W. Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7095-1 (0-8129-7095-0)
What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and... Read more >
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American Fictions
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75482-1 (0-375-75482-2)
"Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenburg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay."
--The New Yorker
A brilliant tour of a century American writers, from the novels of Melville, Wharton and James to the... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75482-1 (0-375-75482-2)
"Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenburg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay."
--The New Yorker
A brilliant tour of a century American writers, from the novels of Melville, Wharton and James to the... Read more >
Nancy Mitford
Written by Selina Hastings
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94946-2 (0-307-94946-X)
Nancy Mitford’s life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.
Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on... Read more >
Written by Selina Hastings
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94946-2 (0-307-94946-X)
Nancy Mitford’s life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.
Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on... Read more >
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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
A Biography
Written by Selina Hastings
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6141-9 (1-4000-6141-5)
Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
(winner to be announced March 10th, 2011)
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Selina Hastings
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6141-9 (1-4000-6141-5)
Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
(winner to be announced March 10th, 2011)
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has... Read more >
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The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order
1964-1980
Written by Steven F. Hayward
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-45369-3 (0-307-45369-3)
THE AGE OF REAGAN brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan's ascent to the White House. Based on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had... Read more >
1964-1980
Written by Steven F. Hayward
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-45369-3 (0-307-45369-3)
THE AGE OF REAGAN brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan's ascent to the White House. Based on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had... Read more >
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John Osborne
The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man
Written by John Heilpern
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70295-2 (0-375-70295-4)
John Osborne, unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man, first won acclaim with the 1956 production of his play Look Back in Anger, which completely transformed postwar theater and established him as one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. This startling biography—the first informed by the secret notebooks in which he recorded his... Read more >
The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man
Written by John Heilpern
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70295-2 (0-375-70295-4)
John Osborne, unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man, first won acclaim with the 1956 production of his play Look Back in Anger, which completely transformed postwar theater and established him as one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. This startling biography—the first informed by the secret notebooks in which he recorded his... Read more >
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Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Written by Anne Conover Heller
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7893-6 (1-4000-7893-8)
A New York Times Notable Book
A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Ayn Rand’s books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the Libertarian movement, influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond, and inspired the Tea Party... Read more >
Written by Anne Conover Heller
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7893-6 (1-4000-7893-8)
A New York Times Notable Book
A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Ayn Rand’s books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the Libertarian movement, influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond, and inspired the Tea Party... Read more >
Hemingway's Boat
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
Written by Paul Hendrickson
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7535-5 (1-4000-7535-1)
From National Book Critics Circle Award winner Paul Hendrickson, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters... Read more >
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
Written by Paul Hendrickson
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7535-5 (1-4000-7535-1)
From National Book Critics Circle Award winner Paul Hendrickson, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters... Read more >
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