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| The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Zachary Leader.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375424984. Daedalus Item Code: 23511 |
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| Renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit, and fierce opinion, Kingsley Amis was not only a leading comic novelist of his generation—having first achieved prominence with the publication ... (Read More)
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| A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932
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John Richardson.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307266651. Daedalus Item Code: 23512 |
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| "'My work is like a diary,' Picasso often said, and [John] Richardson demonstrates the truth of this in the third installment of his biography. He rejoins Picasso after his Cubist stage, when Picasso ... (Read More)
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| Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
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Alison Maloney.
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| Publisher: Thomas Dunne. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781250017659. Daedalus Item Code: 29793 |
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| Upstairs, an aristocratic Edwardian home in early 20th-century England would have been a picture of elegance and order, a place for social gatherings and extravagantly arranged dinner parties. ... (Read More)
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| The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
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Daniel Mark Epstein.
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| Publisher: Ballantine. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780345478009. Daedalus Item Code: 31283 |
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| Poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein here looks at Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd, founded in their mutual ambition and unraveled in the demands of the presidency, the tragedies of two sons' ... (Read More)
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| Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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Lyndall Gordon.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021932. Daedalus Item Code: 23340 |
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| The James Tait Black Prize–winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Mary Wollstonecraft here gives us an entirely new Emily Dickinson—one who at last seems capable of the fierce intelligence at work ... (Read More)
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| Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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Marion Meade.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151011490. Daedalus Item Code: 21010 |
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| "[Nathanael] West and [Eileen] McKenney died young in a car crash in 1940—too soon for him to know that his lacerating novels, especially The Day of the Locust, would become American classics; ... (Read More)
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| Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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Marion Meade.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547386386. Daedalus Item Code: 20742 |
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| "[Nathanael] West and [Eileen] McKenney died young in a car crash in 1940—too soon for him to know that his lacerating novels, especially The Day of the Locust, would become American classics; ... (Read More)
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| Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
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Susan Cheever.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416569916. Daedalus Item Code: 23218 |
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| The author of American Bloomsbury returns to Concord, Massachusetts for this engaging life of its most famous female writer. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women; she ... (Read More)
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| Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
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Mary Gabriel.
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| Publisher: Back Bay. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780316066129. Daedalus Item Code: 29451 |
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| (Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Named One of the Year's Best Nonfiction Books by the Washington Post, Boston ... (Read More)
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| Machiavelli: A Biography
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Miles J. Unger.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781416556305. Daedalus Item Code: 29406 |
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| The name of Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with the cynical and selfish pursuit of power, but the real Machiavelli, says Miles Unger, was a humane and perceptive writer whose controversial ... (Read More)
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| Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography
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Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375405617. Daedalus Item Code: 23536 |
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| A companion volume to Ken Burns' documentary Mark Twain (cowritten by Geoffrey Ward and Dayton Duncan), this visual biography pulls together material from a variety of published and ... (Read More)
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