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Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

By Henry David Thoreau

The Life of Samuel Johnson

By James Boswell, Dr Angus Calder, Tom Griffith

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Sins of G K Chesterton

By Richard Ingrams

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

By Cardinal John Henry Newman, William Oddie

Timebends: A Life

By Arthur Miller

Letters, 1935-80

By Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, Ian S. MacNiven

The Life of James K.Baxter

By Frank McKay

Nikolai Gogol

By Vladimir Nabokov

Journals, 1939-83

By Stephen Spender, John Goldsmith

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess

By Andrew Biswell

A Stanislaw Lem Reader

By Peter Swirski

Woman of Letters: Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise

By Professor Olivier Corpet, Garrett White, Irene Nemirovsky

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

By Thomas Lynch

James Lees-Milne

By Michael Bloch

Shelley on Love: Selected writings

By Richard Holmes, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent

By Judi Dench

Friends For Life (Melrose and Croc)

By Chichester Clark, Emma, emma-chichester-clark

Oxford Literature Companions: La casa de Bernarda Alba: study guide for AS/A Level Spanish set text

By Margaret Bond, Lorenzo Moya Morallon

Robert Burns and His World

By David Daiches

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

By Nigel Jones

In Pursuit of Spring

By Edward Thomas, Alexandra Harris

The Life and Times of a Very British Man

By Kamal Ahmed

The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian

By Andrew McConnell Stott

Until Further Notice, I Am Alive

By Tom Lubbock

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

The Quotable Oscar Wilde

By Sheridan Morley

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

By James Haley