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When Irene Nemirovky's Suite Francaise, a tale of occupied France, was published for the first time in 2004, it caused a sensation and launched a literary revival. Here is the tragic story of this best-selling French author of Russian Jewish descent in a well-sourced, detailed, analytical, and beautifully written biography saturated with Nemirovsky's own bracing candour and penetrating insights.

Knopf, 2010; 448 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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From the private papers of the Empress Josephine and Mary Wordsworth to those of Emily Dickinson and Queen Victoria, Love Letters of Great Women is an anthology of some of the most romantic letters in history.

St. Martin's, 2009; 159 pp.; EN; hb

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This compelling collection of essays considerable insight into the challenge Malcolm Lowry set for himself as an artist and the agonies he endured as he wrestled with the problems of integration in his work and in his life. Contains critical evaluations of his novels and analysis of various aspects of his work as well as the influences that shaped his world such as his love of jazz and the cinema. His life was marked by alcoholism, unstable marriages, stints in jails and mental institutions.

Black Rose Books, 2007; 158 pp.; EN; pb

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Martin Luther exposed the myth of a unified Latin Christendom and urged Christians to read and interpret the bible for themselves. This is a vivid picture of a complex and driven man, a warts-and-all study.

St. Martin's, 2008; 399 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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In this biographical account of Richard F. Burton, Newman's primary focus is Burton's relationship Africa and Africans -the famous English explorer is shown to be a not so benevolent racist, as well as a congenitally disgruntled and unhappy traveller.

Potomac, 2010; 302 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary 19th-century critic John Ruskin. Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years, Praeterita tells the story of the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe and encounters with works of art and artists.This edition of Praeterita is accompanied by Dilecta, Ruskin's own selection from his letters, diaries and other writings.

Everyman's Library, 2005; 564 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Like Alfred Nobel, Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contribution to history. Yet, in 19th-century industrial America, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. The author traces the epic story of the Jewish Hungarian immigrant's rise through American politics and into journalism where he accumulated immense power and wealth, only to fall blind and become a lonely, tormented recluse wandering the globe.

Harper, 2010; 558 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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In his last decade, Raymond Carver became a leading figure in the resurgence of the short story, readers embraced his precise, sad, often funny and poignant tales of ordinary people and their troubles. Carol Sklenicka penetrates the myths and controversies, offering fresh a fresh appreciation of his work and an unbiased, vivid portrait of Carver.

Scribner, 2009; 578 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton,John Fletcher and Other Players in His Story

Here is a fascinating, lively, anecdotal work of forensic biography that firmy places Shakespeare within the hectic, exhilarating world in which he lived and wrote. Wells explores Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, both behind the scenes and in front of the curtain. He writes about the lives and works of other major writer's of Shakespeare's day and discusses Shakespeare's relationships with each of them.

Pantheon Books, 2006; 286 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite hero-criminal the talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Schenkar paints a rivetting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, Strangers On a Train, to her long, strange, self-exile in Europe.

St. Martin's Press, 2009; 684 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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