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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (Pre-Raphaelite painters series)

By Ash, Russell

Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir

By Chekhov, Mikhail

Anton Chekhov: A Life

By Rayfield, Donald

The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet. Lover, Rebel, Spy

By Johnston, Kenneth R

Samuel Johnson: The Struggle

By Meyers, Jeffrey

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

By Glendinning, Victoria

The Letters of Lytton Strachey

By Strachey, Lytton, Levy, Paul, Marcus, Penelope

Coleridge: Early Visions: v. 1

By Holmes, Richard, [Coleridge, Samuel Taylor]

Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books Classics)

By Holmes, Richard

Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh

By Petro, Pamela

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

By Oufkir, Malika, Fitoussi, Michele, Schwartz, Ros

Grey is the Colour of Hope

By Irina Ratushinskaya, A. Kojevnikov

A Life in the Day

By Davies, Hunter

Loli-Pop Lili Puw - Cerddi ar Gynghanedd i Blant

By Roberts, Emrys

By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts

By Jack Rosenthal, Amy Rosenthal, Maureen Lipman

May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

By Rebecca Bowler, Claire Drewery

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

By Lee, Hermione

In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature)

By Mena Mitrano

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

By Hopkins, L.

The Genius of Shakespeare

By Bate, Jonathan

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

By Bryson, Bill

Charles Dickens

By Slater, Michael

Poems and Prose (Poets)

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Elegy for Iris

By Bayley, John

Said And Done

By McGough, Roger

James Joyce (Oxford Lives)

By Ellmann, Richard

Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Vintage Classics)

By Thoreau, Henry David

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

This is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies

By Jeremy Reed, Reed, Jeremy

George Eliot: A Life

By Ashton, Rosemary