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Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
Rosina Harrison.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143120865.  Daedalus Item Code: 29747
 
In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, ... (Read More)
 
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Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley. James Sexton, ed.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781566636292.  Daedalus Item Code: 21972
 
The correspondence of Aldous Huxley reveals one of the 20th century's liveliest minds; of the ten thousand letters he wrote, only a fraction appeared in the collection published in 1969. James ... (Read More)
 
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume I: 1920–1945
Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
Publisher: New Directions.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780811214452.  Daedalus Item Code: 23912
 
This first volume of Tennessee Williams' collected letters begins with a letter from eight-year-old Tennessee to his mother and progresses through a youth that meandered through various universities ... (Read More)
 
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume II: 1945–1957
Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
Publisher: New Directions.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780811216005.  Daedalus Item Code: 23913
 
This second volume of collected letters charts a time of intense creativity for Tennessee Williams, which saw the production of six major plays and several major film projects, including A ... (Read More)
 
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She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography
Charlotte Chandler.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781416579090.  Daedalus Item Code: 10758
 
The biographer of Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Groucho Marx, and many other Hollywood favorites, Charlotte Chandler here draws on a series of interviews she conducted with Mae West just months ... (Read More)
 
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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
Colm Toibin.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780330521048.  Daedalus Item Code: 24035
 
Between 1990 and 1994, three-time Book Prize nominee Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from ... (Read More)
 
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Sissinghurst, An Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
Adam Nicolson.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670021734.  Daedalus Item Code: 21511
 
A jewel in England's Kentish countryside, Sissinghurst Castle features an internationally famous garden designed by poet Vita Sackville-West, the lover who inspired Virginia Woolf's Orlando. ... (Read More)
 
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Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
Jehanne Wake.
Publisher: Touchstone.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781451607611.  Daedalus Item Code: 23939
 
As gripping as any great historical novel, this is the true story of Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the exuberant American sisters who enthralled English Regency society. Descended from ... (Read More)
 
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Small Memories: A Memoir
Jose Saramago. Margaret Jull Costa, trans.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780151015085.  Daedalus Item Code: 23431
 
The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Elephant's Journey here offers a mosaic of his youth in Portugal—vignettes of small events, ... (Read More)
 
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Small Memories: A Memoir
Jose Saramago. Margaret Jull Costa, trans.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780099520481.  Daedalus Item Code: 23860
 
The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Elephant's Journey here offers a mosaic of his youth in Portugal—vignettes of small events, ... (Read More)
 
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Small Memories: A Memoir
Jose Saramago. Margaret Jull Costa, trans.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547752631.  Daedalus Item Code: 31535
 
The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Elephant's Journey here offers a mosaic of his youth in Portugal—vignettes of small events, ... (Read More)
 
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The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Mary S. Lovell.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780312587338.  Daedalus Item Code: 20616
 
When Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 during her flight around the world, she was already America's most famous female aviator. Mary Lovell vividly captures the drama and mystery behind this ... (Read More)
 
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