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John Ruskin ,
Francis O Gorman
[Paperback 2010]
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. CHRIST CHURCH CHOIR. A LONE, by the fireside of the little *- back room, which... more
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Christopher Hitchens
[Hardcover 2010]
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Over the course of his 60 years, Hitchens has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. This is the story of his life, lived large. Over the course of his 60... more
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Fernando Morais
[Paperback 2010]
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Aboutthe book: Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth look at his life and... more
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Robert Crawford
[Hardbound 2009]
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Draws on a variety of previously untapped sources - recently discovered poems, journals, correspondence and interviews with his contemporaries - to present the life, loves and struggles of the poet. "Burns was a poetic genius and his life was the stuff of legend. Compelling and timely, this book directs attention... more
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Mario Puzo
[1997]
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New cover reissue. About the book A CLASSIC TALE OF THE LOVES, CRIMES AND STRUGGLES CONFRONTED BY ONE FAMILY OF IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY.From the barren farms of Italy to the cramped tenements of New York, Lucia Santa - wife, widow and mother of two families - must... more
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Fernando Morais
[Paperback 2009]
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"Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life" is the first-ever biography of the man whose books have sold an astounding 100 million copies worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors of all time. Paulo Coelho's life begins with a complicated birth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. He was... more
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Claire Tomalin
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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The critically acclaimed definitive biography of Charles Dickens by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters... more
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Jiddu Krishnamurthy, or J Krishnamurthy, was born on May 12, 1895 in Andhra Pradesh, the eighth of eleven children, in a Telugu ' speaking Brahmin family. His father, an official in the British colonial Administration, retired in 1907 and found employment as a clerk in the headquarter of the Theosophical... more
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Sidney Sheldon
[Mass market paperbound 2006]
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A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels. A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy narrative as any of his bestselling novels. The... more
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Ernest Hemingway
[Paperback 2000]
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Both a revealing self-portrait and a dramatic, invented chronicle of Hemingway's final African safari, this fictional memoir recounts the splendor of daily life in Kenya and tells of his love affair with a young African woman. Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's... more
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Ernest Hemingway
[Paperback 1996]
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Published posthumously in 1964, "A Moveable Feast" remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be... more
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V Nabokov
[Paperback 2009]
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Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the... more
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Marie De Sevigne ,
Madame De Sevigne
[Paperback 1982]
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One of the world's great letter writers, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) has bequeathed an extraordinarily vivid picture of life in the France of Louis XIV.... more
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John Bunyan ,
W R Owens
[Hardcover 2007]
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Subjects: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for... more
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David Herbert Donald
[Library binding 1996]
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The phenomenal national bestseller that is "the Lincoln biography for this generation" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)--now in paperback. Drawing on resources not available until recently--including Lincoln's personal papers, archives, and newspaper reports--two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald presents a masterful account of Lincoln's rise to the presidency and the political... more
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Deborah Baker
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Description: In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he... more
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Flora Thompson
[Paperback 2001]
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ,
Rosemary Edmonds
[Paperback 2002]
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A new translation of Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy. Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth," in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming... more
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Dylan Thomas
[Hardcover 1985]
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Fifty years after its first publication in book form, Dylan Thomass timeless prose poem is echoed by the rolling, evocative woodcut images of artist Raskin--a beautiful gift for book lovers. A holiday classic in an elegant New Directions edition. With lovely poetic lilt, this simple tale captures the child-eye view... more
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Sebastian Faulks
[Paperback 2002]
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Paperback edition of this bestselling title that looks at the lives of three exceptionally talented men, each of whom died at an early age. The first is Christopher Wood, who went to Paris in 1921 and secured himself a place in the history of English painting. Next is Richard Hilary,... more
