Biography: Writers from The Owl at the Bridge

"...expands the boundaries of what is conventionally recognized as 17th-century English literature by uncovering, reintroducing and documenting the lives and works of more than 550 English women who wrote between 1580 and 1720... contains an informative introduction and helpful theoretical apparatus in the form of seven analytical appendices." xxvi, 298 pages; 23.5 cm. Fine in Fine dust jacket; As New.… Ler mais sobre este item

"This book is the story of the founding era of medieval studies from 1895 to about 1965, through the lives, works, and ideas of the great medievalists, and is an evaluation of their continuing impact, into the 1980s, on how the European Middle Ages are interpreted." 477 pages; index; 24 cm. Color pictorial dust jacket; Near Fine. Stock#ofc0598.

"The Notebooks of Henry James, which constitute the bulk of this volume, are a record of his work in progrss for a period of more than thirty years. ...subsequent to his first entry about Confidence, in the autumn of 1878, all his finished novels and all but a handful of his stories are discussed or at least mentioned in… Ler mais sobre este item

190 pages. Part of the publisher's series "Famous Biographies for Young People"; includes brief bios and excerpts of the writings of James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Ogden Nash, Cornelia Otis Skinner, others. Ex-library with discard stamp. Stock#ofc0077.

302 pages. As new, owner inscription on flyleaf, dj has small strip of clear tape at bottom left of rear side. Stock#ofc0069.

NY, Harper & Row [1970]. book club edition. Hard Cover. xiv, 424 p., index, plates; 24 cm. In addition to Zelda's letters to Scott, the author has been able to draw on interviews with people who knew Zelda... as well as on hundreds of previously unpublished letters from both Fitzgeralds. The portrait that emerges is that of a complicated and… Ler mais sobre este item

Doubleday, NY, 1950. Hard Cover. 340 p., plates. Fanny Burney (Frances, Mme d'Arblay), 1752-1840, wrote novels popular in 19th-century England. Good+/ no dj. Stock#100942.

Cleveland, World, 1962.. Hard Cover. 283 p. Biography of Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, by his younger brother, who knew him as a writer, but also as family. Stock #100,862. Good, spine sunned/ no dj. American Literature

Boston & NY, Houghton Mifflin ['Published September 1918']. 'Copyright, 1918, by the Massachusetts Historical Society'. Appears to be a variant of BAL 39. Hard Cover. x, 519 pages, index; 24.5 cm. Navy cloth, top edge gilt; spine chipped, minor wear, no dj; pencil owner name; good+. stock#23195/h.