John McGahern - Memoir by John McGahern
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz
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From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: "These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are--in the words of the title of one of the prose pieces--'The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon' of his life. I don't believe any autobiography, with its inevitable imp ...Show more
Outside the Magic Circle - The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr by Hollinger F. Barnard (Editor); Virginia Foster Durr; Studs Terkel (Foreword by)
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Virginia Foster Durr is the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, and she was raised in Birmingham during the early years of this century. She attended Wellesley for two years, until her family's circumstances made it impossible for her to continue. Virginia's sister Josephine married Hugo Black; and in ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
Caesar by Christian Meier
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This biography of Julius Caesar builds up a portrait of a man with a restless need for achievement. It presents an analysis of a political system in decline, and the opportunities it afforded one of the most brilliant and unscrupulous individuals of all time.
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace : The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family by Tamara Chalabi
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A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family's tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present. The Chalabis are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Iraq. For centuries they have occupied positions of honour and responsibility, loyally serving first the Ottoman Empire a ...Show more
Churchill by Himself by Richard M. Langworth (ed)
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Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the 20th century's most charismatic and controversial figures. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a Nobel Prize-winning author and twice prime minister. He is best remembered as the astute and powerful orator who inspired a battered Britain ...Show more
An Un American Life : The Case of Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus
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