Timeless Beauty: The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany
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American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany is most famous for his revolutionary and widely popular glass...
A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
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This study combines the mapping of Borges's intellectual trajectory with detailed analyses of his...
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History Through Biography in Finde-Siecle Egypt
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This book explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic language global biographical...
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
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Across three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully...A masterly performance by...
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...
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The Awakening
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The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has...
The Magic World of Orson Welles
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Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in...
Thomas Traherne: Poetry and Prose
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Denise Inge introduces a selection from Thomas Traherne's writing in this, the third volume in this...
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf
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These letters of Virginia Woolf's--at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and...
Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who are Known Best in Fields Other Than Medicine
David K. C. Cooper and Howard Dean
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This book provides wide ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are...