Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 920.003
Review Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 5 / Gale Group:
Creator: Francis Graham-Smith
Publication date: 1989-07-28
Dewey code: 520.924
Price: $85.00
Review Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman's Astronomer / Cambridge University Press:Nevil Maskelyne directed the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, for 46 years (1765-1811) and supervised the production of the first 49 issues of the Nautical Almanac. This biography attempts to present the work and achievements of the fifth Astronomer Royal.
Publication date: 2002-06-01
Dewey code: 823.809
List Price: $19.95
Price: $500.00
Review The Brontes: A Life in Letters / Overlook TP:Upon its publication in 1995, Juliet Barker's The Brontës was deemed a monumental achievement that set a new standard in literary biography; it garnered rave reviews and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book of 1995 and a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 1995. In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, the much anticipated follow-up to that landmark biography, Barker uses newly discovered letters and manuscripts, some appearing in print for the first time, to reveal the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters. The letters detail the siblings' self-absorbed childhood, highlighted by wild, imaginative games; the years of struggling to earn a living in uncongenial occupations before they took the literary world by storm; the terrible marring of that success as Branwell, Emily, and Anne died tragically young; the final years as Charlotte, battling against grief, loneliness, and ill health, emerged from anonymity to take her place in literary society. In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Juliet Barker has produced a work of impeccable scholarship but also a story as dramatic, and undeniably readable as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. "Barker proves herself an impeccable editor of family papers we are all the richer for possessing. " (New York Times Book Review) "Provides a real sense of what those strange, brilliant people were like. " (The Atlantic Monthly).
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 920.003
Review Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 2 / Gale Group:
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 353.007650924
Price: $40.00
Review The Protectors: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1962 / University of Delaware Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-10-25
Dewey code: 920
Price: $317.00
Review Benjamin Constant / K. G. Saur:
Publication date: 1919
Review Battery B thru the fires of France ;: Being a very human and intimate sketch of a few men who served stem a tiny eddy in one of the greatest of cataclysms--the World War, / Wayside press]:
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 809
Price: $35.00
Review Writer's Tale / Deadline Pr:
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 920.003
Review Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 4 / Gale Group:
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 817
Price: $23.95
Review My Life and Hard Times / Amereon Ltd:In My Life and Hard Times, Thurber returns to his starting pointthe delightful chaos and frustrations brought on by family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, and recalcitrant machinery in the quiet university town of his birth. This is one of the most deeply humorous books of our century. Not only is it a "memoir" that takes into account the crumbling of empires, it talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs. " Mostly it is about the widely incredible things people do when they think they are acting sensibly. Yet Thurber does more than just tickle your funny bone. He has quietly and unobtrusively, but permanently, deflated your false pride in the essential sanity and prudence of the human race.
Edition: 23
Publication date: 2007-09-21
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $390.00
Price: $386.00
Review International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2008 (International Who's Who of Authors and Writers) / Routledge:"International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2008" provides an invaluable and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world. Now in its Twenty-Third edition, the book is revised and updated annually by our editorial team and covers the most important authors and writers at work today. This title will prove an invaluable acquisition for journalists, television and radio companies, public and academic libraries, PR companies, literary organizations and anyone needing up-to-date information in this field. Entries Biographical details are listed for writers of all kinds, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, editors, columnists, journalists, as well as literary agents and publishers. Each entry provides personal information, career details, works published, literary awards and prizes, memberships and contact information, where available. Entries listed include Thomas Pynchon, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Xinran Xue, Fred Vargas and Kazuo Ishiguro. Key features include: over 8,000 entries; a directory section, including detailed lists of major international literary awards and prizes, principal literary organizations, and literary agents; entries for established writers, as well as for those who have recently risen to prominence; and, hundreds of new entries are included in this edition.
Publication date: 1994-04-01
Dewey code: 270.10922
List Price: $447.00
Price: $442.07
Review The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 18) (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 18) / Brill Academic Publishers:This volume contains the first complete publication of the collection of Coptic literary manuscripts now in the A. S. Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow. The collection formed in 1870-1908 by Vladimir Golenischev is of great value since it covers almost the entire field of early Christian literature in Egypt and substantially aids to fill up serious lacunae in many well-known literary works, to say nothing of the texts hitherto unknown. Important is also the fact that Coptica Golenischeviana largely derives from the library of St. Shenoute's monastery at Sohag, this virtual National Library of Christian Egypt, the source of the riches of the museums and libraries of Paris, Vienna, Berlin etc.
Creator: Robert Self
Publication date: 2005-09-06
Review The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: v. 1, v. 2, v. 3 & v / Ashgate:
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 920.003
Review Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 3 / Gale Group:
Publication date: 1994-04
Price: $60.00
Review Arthur Rackham: A Life With Illustration / Trafalgar Square:This monograph looks at Arthur Rackham and uses diaries, letters, personal belongings and a wealth of information from his family in order to provide a picture of the artist. The author not only includes the more famous watercolour paintings of fairies and goblins, enchanted kingdoms and dark forests, but also includes his portraits and watercolours.
Creator: Linda Dziobek
Edition: Har/Onl
Publication date: 2008-03-10
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $387.00
Price: $387.00
Review Profiles Of Worldwide Government Leaders 2008 / Cq Pr:
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 741.6092
Price: $29.95
Review The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King / Trafalgar Square Publishing:
Publication date: 1996-12
Dewey code: 016.8238
Price: $99.95
Review G.A. Henty 1832-1902: A Bibliographical Study of His British Editions, With Short Accounts of His Publishers, Illustrators and Designers, and Notes on Production Methods us / Scolar Press:This is a bibliography of the leading 19th-century writer of boys' adventure stories, which also offers an insight into British publishing in the latter half of the century. Henty wrote 122 novels for adults and boys, published by William Tinsley, Andrew Chatto and Alexander Blackie. Newbolt's bibliography gives the details of over 500 editions of Henty's work, including work which he contributed to books, annuals, periodicals and newspapers. Additional information on the publishers, illustrators and designers that he worked with, and the production methods used to create his books, are included.
Publication date: 2002
Review Master of the Senate / BOT:Master of the Senate By Robert A. Caro (© 2002) Read by Grover Gardner (Amer. ) 2002 Biography > American Presidents & Families Lyndon Johnson uses his finely honed political acumen to dominate the U. S. Senate. National Book Award/ Pulitzer Prize. 3rd in trilogy.
Creator: Fiona Robertson
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 821.7
List Price: $495.00
Price: $490.52
Review Lives of the Great Romantics II / Pickering & Chatto Publishers:In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography. Keats died at the age of 25. Memoir writers attempted to capture the tragedy of what they saw as thwarted promise. The memoirs in this collection explore the Romantic cult of the poet, sharing Keats's own reluctance to turn his private life into public art. Coleridge, a famous theologian and drug-user, was seen by his contemporaries both as a degenerate and as "the sage of Highgate", a defender of the Established Church. The reminiscences collected here struggle to present a clear, coherent image of their subject, whether heroic or disreputable. More recent reappraisals of Sir Walter Scott's work accompany a revived curiousity about his private personality and public persona. Memoirs selected here include material from a biography written by his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, as well as from the many dissident and more informal recollections of his varied literary acquaintances.
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Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 5, Nevil Maskelyne: The Seaman's Astronomer, The Brontes: A Life in Letters, Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 2, The Protectors: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1962, Benjamin Constant, Battery B thru the fires of France ;: Being a very human and intimate sketch of a few men who served stem a tiny eddy in one of the greatest of cataclysms--the World War,, Writer's Tale, Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 4, My Life and Hard Times, International Who's Who of Authors & Writers 2008 (International Who's Who of Authors and Writers), The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 18) (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 18), The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: v. 1, v. 2, v. 3 & v, Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography: 3, Arthur Rackham: A Life With Illustration, Profiles Of Worldwide Government Leaders 2008, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King, G.A. 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