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An enduring mystery in Mark Twain's life concerns the events of his last decade, from 1900 to 1910, obscured by Twain himself and intentionally overlooked by his biographers. Eminent Twain scholar ... (Read More)
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"'It all began over drinks,' [Tristram] Hunt writes of the forty-year collaboration between Karl Marx and his benefactor, ghostwriter, and best friend, Friedrich Engels. Engels's life was defined by ... (Read More)
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Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age, becoming famous in the mid-1890s and remaining so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, ... (Read More)
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(American Book Award Winner) "Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life—with my clothes on—was when I first heard Diz and Bird back in 1944. I've come close to matching the feeling of ... (Read More)
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Eric Idle, ed.
Publisher: Hyperion. Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781401323677. Daedalus Item Code: 30058
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you've already availed yourself of all the Monty Python television recordings, books, feature films, memoirs, concert performances, side projects, and ... (Read More)
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Early in 1815, Louisa Adams left Saint Petersburg in a Russian carriage on a difficult journey—through eastern Europe and Prussia, and into a France experiencing the tumultuous events surrounding ... (Read More)
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Unlike other fathers in their northern English town, Nancy Kohner's father was elegantly dressed after the Eastern European fashion, never without a rose in his lapel. When he died, Kohner delved ... (Read More)
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"Harold Evans, a Manchester-born British newspaper editor who became an American citizen in 1993, is not as well known as he should be in his adopted country. He has written two best-selling books ... (Read More)
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Brilliant, secretive, and self-contradictory, Charles Dodgson—Lewis Carroll—reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his writing and his life. Jenny Woolf, also the author of Lewis Carroll in ...(Read More)
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At the age of 58, Carole King decided it was high time that she do as many people had asked and write about her life, and though it took her a dozen years to finish it, this fast-moving, grippingly ... (Read More)
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Charming, suave, and utterly ruthless, Otto Katz may well have been the perfect spy in the golden years of international intrigue. From Hitler's rise to power, through World War II, and into the Cold ... (Read More)
Written by a woman who loved these three icons of the Beat movement—she was the wife of Neal Cassady, the lover of Jack Kerouac, and the friend of Allen Ginsberg—this literary memoir by Carolyn ... (Read More)
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