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Ardent Spirits
Scribner 2009; US$ 17.00In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life -- his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his long career as a university teacher. He gives often moving, and frequently comic, portraits of his great teachers in England... more...
A Personal Record
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Nearly lost for a very long time, A Personal Record, the second of Conrad's autobiographical memoirs, first appeared in 1912. This collection retraces the author's East European background, his life during voyages, his obsession with English language, and the influence of his writings as one of the milestones in modern English literature.... more...
Notes on Life and Letters
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Joseph Conrad's Notes on Life and Letters was first published in 1921. It is "a thin array (for such a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial. Well, yes! A one-man show or is it merely the show of one man?" Including the political treatise Notes... more...
The Private Life of Napoleon
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99In these pages the personal life of the great conqueror Napoleon is discussed; his excesses, his kindness, his wisdom and thoughtfulness and his vices are all eloquently described. The book follows his rise from a commoner to a great marshal and then his downfall. Through the eyes of his personal valet, the great man is depicted in all his greatness... more...
My Bondage and My Freedom
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Published in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography by Frederick Douglass. Douglass reflects on the various aspects of his life, first as a slave and than as a freeman. He depicts the path his early life took, his memories of being owned, and how he managed to achieve his freedom. This is an inspirational account of a man who struggled... more...
Honoré de Balzac
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99This biography amazingly captures the details of Balzacs life. Almost a complete sketch of his life, the work also sheds light on his brilliancy as a writer. His far reaching influence, nationally and internationally has also been discussed. A profound insight into the writers personality. more...
Mark Twain's Other Woman
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95Laura Skandera Trombley, the preeminent Twain scholar at work today, reveals the never-before-read letters and daily journals of Isabel Lyon, Mark Twain?s last personal secretary. For six years, Isabel Lyon was responsible for running the aging Man in White?s chaotic household, nursing him through several illnesses and serving as his adoring audience.... more...
Traplines
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00In 1987, John Rember returned home to Sawtooth Valley, where he had been brought up. He returned out of a homing instinct: the same forty acres that had sustained his family?s horses had sustained a vision of a place where he belonged in the world, a life where he could get up in the morning, step out the door, and catch dinner from the Salmon River.... more...
Mornings with Mailer
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.99? Mornings with Mailer is a tender and affectionate view of the protean author at the end of the Big Novel that was his life. Dwayne Raymond?s book offers a uniquely intimate perspective on one of our literary giants. Applause.? ? Tom Piazza, author of City of Refuge ?In this moving memoir, Dwayne Raymond provides an intimate look at the daily... more...
Hitch-22
Grand Central Publishing 2010; US$ 12.99Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary... more...









