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On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

By Wilbur Smith, Smith, Wilbur

Touring C.S.Lewis' Ireland and England

By Perry Bramlett, Ronald W. Higdon

Evelina: or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Editions)

By Frances Burney

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

By Mary Wollstonecraft

Home at Grasmere: Part first, book first of 'The recluse' (The Cornell Wordsworth)

By William Wordsworth

A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet (Candlewick Biographies)

By Kathryn Lasky

Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography

By John Coldstream

Shelley And His World

By Claire Tomalin

Eliot's New Life

By Lyndall Gordon, Gordon, Lyndall

A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century

By Jeffrey T. Richelson

George Eliot (Very Interesting People S.)

By Rosemary Ashton

Homer (Past Masters Series)

By Jasper Griffin

Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde (Oxford World's Classics)

By John Sloan

A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet

By Richard Perceval Graves, Graves, Richard Perceval

Records of Shelley, Byron And the Author (English Library)

By David Wright, Edward Trelawny

The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 2: 1939 - 1955

By Norman Sherry

Wordsworth And Coleridge: The Radical Years (Oxford English Monographs)

By Nicholas Roe

Prick up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

By John Lahr

Letters To Sartre (Vintage Classics)

By Simone de Beauvoir

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families

By Michael Holroyd

Chaucer: Brief Lives

By Peter Ackroyd, Ackroyd, Peter

The Stricken Deer: William Cowper (Biography & Memoirs)

By David Cecil

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir

By Agatha Christie Mallowan

Agatha Christie: A biography

By Janet Morgan, Morgan, Janet

What is the What

By Dave Eggers

W.H.Auden: The Life of a Poet

By Charles Osborne, Osborne, Charles

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family

By Mary S. Lovell

Sleepers

By Lorenzo Carcaterra

Ten Poems To Open Your Heart

By Roger Housden