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Arthur and Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association
From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern...
by Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.
Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete...
The Brontës
Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A “brilliant” biography of the Brontë family, dispelling popular myths and revealing the true story of Emily, Anne, Charlotte, and their father (The Independent on Sunday).
The tragic story of the Brontë family has been told many times: the half-mad, repressive father; the drunken, drug-addicted...
Careless People
Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Kirkus (STARRED review)
"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”
The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from...
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Memoirs of a Literary Forger
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing...
Painted Shadow
The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
By the time Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum for what would be the final nine years of her life, she had been abandoned by her husband T.S. Eliot and shunned by literary London. Yet Vivienne was neither insane nor insignificant. She generously collaborated in her husband’s literary efforts,...
What There Is to Say We Have Said
The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor.
For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary...
In Bed with the Word
Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
In Bed with the Word addresses questions such as: When people want to pray, to worship, to marry or bury, why do they reach for a book? What is it about reading that feels like a spiritual posture? What kinds of reading go beyond being private entertainment to produce personal and social change? A...
by Dan Wakefield
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The rhythms of jazz and beat poetry punctuate this sweeping, firsthand account of New York City’s 1950s literary scene from the Bowery to Spanish Harlem
National bestselling author Dan Wakefield first came to New York City in 1952 with the intention of receiving a proper literary education...
A Study of George Orwell
The Man and His Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
An examination of Orwell’s life and body of work, by a fellow author who knew him personally.
Christopher Hollis knew Eric Blair—who would eventually become known to the world as George Orwell—during his schooldays at Eton, afterward in Burma, and at the end of his life. Here, Hollis...
by Ruth Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
**Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
Winner of the Edgar Award in Critical/Biographical
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
A New York Times Notable Book of 2016
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of 2016
An Entertainment...
The Torn Trilogy Chaplets 1
Torn From the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Torn Trilogy Chaplets 12 Chaplet Editions Convenient: Buy as you read, perfect for E-reader devices Chaplet 1 FREE
Chaplets 1-4: Torn From the Inside Out
Chaplets 5-9: The Journey Chaplets 10-13: Out of the Maelstrom
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by Paul Kincaid
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream...
Fathers and Sons
The Autobiography of a Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it—and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went...