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Charles Dickens(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIRECharles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex characVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Molly Keane(2018) PHIPPS, SALLYA wonderfully honest and deeply accomplished tribute to a complicated, talented mother and writer - 'An Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen' (Bookseller) - by her daughter.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Essential Writings of John Marshall(2022) CHRISTMAN, HENRY M.,MARSHALL, JOHNVezava: Mehka10,50 € -
Life of Charlotte Bronte(2009) GASKELL, ELIZABETHElizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two edVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Swing Low(2013) TOEWS, MIRIAMOne morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midstVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Enid Blyton: The Biography(2006) STONEY, BARBARAEnid Blyton is known throughout the world for her imaginative childrens books and her enduring characters such as Noddy and the Famous Five. Yet until 1974, when Barbara Stoney first published her official biography, little was known about this most privaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Koestler(2011) SCAMMELL, PROFESSOR MICHAELBest known as the author of the classic "Darkness at Noon", Koestler was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals, involved in and commenting on almost every political movement of the twentieth century. This title gives an account of KoVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Now All Roads Lead to France(2012) HOLLIS, MATTHEWFrost returned to the safety of New England while Thomas stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
William Golding(2010) CAREY, PROFESSOR JOHNWilliam Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including The Inheritors, Pincher MarVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Last Englishman(2010) CHAMBERS, ROLANDArthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. As the Red Army engaged with an Allied invasion of Russia, Ransome was conducting a love affair with Evgenia Shelepina, private secretary to Leon Trotsky, then Soviet Commissar for War.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Jane Austen(2022) LEITHART, PETER J.This edition will include updated text that highlights the new film adaptations inspired by Austen’s books and characters, and a reading guide perfect for deeper thought or book club discussions.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham(2010) HASTINGS, SELINAThe definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest writersVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
James Lees-Milne(2010) BLOCH, MICHAELThe authorized biography of 'the greatest diarist of our times'Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Sylvia Townsend Warner(2015) HARMAN, CLAIREThe poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistiVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Thomas Hardy(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIREParadox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter atVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIREWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the iVezava: Mehka18,21 €
