Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search...
Mary I: England's Catholic Queen
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The lifestory of Mary I-daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon-is often...
Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
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Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he...
Mental Healers: Mesmer, Eddy and Freud
Stefan Zweig, Paul Cedar, Eden Paul and Man Ray
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Stefan's Zweig Mental Healers is a triple biography of Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and Sigmund...
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity
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Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Francois Mitterrand was a man...
Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed
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"COMPELLING". (The Sunday Telegraph). "CONTROVERSIAL ...Sounes' book pushes the standard Reed...
Hitler's Paratrooper: The Life and Battles of Rudolf Witzig
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Rudolf Witzig entered the history books as the heroic captor of Belgium's supposedly impregnable...
The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away...
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers...
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Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time
Vladimir Nabokov and Gennady Barabtarlo
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Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context...
biography psychology