Spurling, Hilary

Pearl Buck in China; Journey to the Good Earth

New York, Simon & Schuster, 2010. Later printing. Hardcover. Ovtavo; pp; xii, (ii), 304, index; black cloth and green paper covered boards in a dust jacket. Buck was the the first woman to win the Nobel for literature. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 15467

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Stape, John

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

New York, Pantheon, 2007. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxvii, (iii), 369, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; terra-cotta cloth and cream paper covered paper boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. In this authoritative, insightful biography, we see the modernist master Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in the Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor, traveling to the Far East and Africa, and eventually settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as a novelist. John Stape describes a man with a deep sense of otherness, a writer who wrote in his third language and whose fiction became the cornerstone of modernism. With his exceptional understanding of Conrad, Stape succeeds in casting a new light on the life of a man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 17200

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Joseph Conrad; Literary Criticism;

Svendsen, Clara, (Text), Collected And Edited By Frans Lasson

The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen

New York, Random House, 1970. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 227, index; profusely illustrated with photographs in black and white; gray cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 19248

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Wenner, Jann S. and Corey Seymour

Gonzo, the Life of Hunter S. Thompson; an Oral Biography by. .

Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 2007. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxiv, 467, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; black cloth with cream covered paper boards lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket, the Johnny Depp movie cover. A true original.. well worth the read!. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 18842

Catalogue: Literary Biography