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Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H. L. Mencken (Unabridged)
This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how he rose to his unique position as comic genius and pre-eminent critic of American culture....
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Driving Over Lemons (Unabridged)
At age 17, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of Genesis, his schoolboy band, and launched a new career as a sheep shearer and travel writer....
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Edith Wharton
Lee interweaves Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age....
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind (Unabridged)
Iris Chang, the best-selling author of The Rape of Nanking and a tireless human-rights activist, symbolized strength to many in the literary and social-justice worlds....
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Herman Melville (Unabridged)
A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature....
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Everything you've always wanted to know about Marcel Proust but were afraid to ask....
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Jack Rosenthal's Last Act (Unabridged)
Jack Rosenthal had always resisted writing an autobiography, until he hit on an original way of writing it....
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James Joyce (Unabridged)
One of Ireland's best current novelists provides a thumbnail sketch of Ireland's greatest writer....
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Jane Austen (Unabridged)
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers....
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Living Biographies of Great Painters (Unabridged)
To appreciate great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them....
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