Claude Levi Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
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Category: REM Biography
Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the modern classic "Tristes Tropiques", was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan and arguably changed the face of Western though ...Show more
Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
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$45.00 (64% off)
Category: REM Biography | Series: Heide Art in Victoria | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
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Category: REM Biography
'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama 'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles Times George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of the British Empire to the ...Show more
Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family by Emer O'Sullivan
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Category: REM Biography
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics - his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values - to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocat ...Show more
Letters of T.S. Eliot: v. 1: 1898-1922 by Valerie Eliot (Editor); Hugh Haughton (Editor); T. S. Eliot
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Category: REM Biography | Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot Ser.
Volume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land. Since 1988, Valerie Eliot has continued to gather materials from ...Show more
Great Unrecorded History by MOFFAT WENDY
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Category: REM Biography
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyALA Stonewall Honor BookFinalist for James Tait Black Memorial PrizeE. M. Forster's homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde's imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led ...Show more
Margaret and Gough - The Love Story That Shaped a Nation by Susan Mitchell
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Category: REM Biography
Gough had no small talk, Margaret had the gift of easy conversation. He was often ill-at-ease in company and preferred his books. She was warm, inclusive and jollied him along. He had a vicious tongue and a quick temper. She always tried to see the best in people. He knew everything about the ideology, ...Show more
John Cleese So, Anyway... by John Cleese
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Category: REM Biography | Reading Level: very good
John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese takes readers on a Gra ...Show more
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Jacob Kaag
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Category: REM Biography
The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundIn "American Philosophy," John Kaag--a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career--stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the ...Show more
No Way! Okay, Fine: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Feminism and Feelings by Brodie Lancaster
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$34.99 (62% off)
Category: REM Biography
'I identified early on that my role in relationships was the sidekick, the platonic female cast member in an all-male production, or the friend who was relied on selectively when other options were unavailable. I was the comic relief or the stand-in, never the lead. I knew this, I felt it, I wrote it do ...Show more
War Letters of General Monash by John Monash
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Category: REM Biography
Monash in his own words . . . Long before this letter can possibly reach you, great events which will stir the whole world and go down in history will have happened, to the eternal glory of Australia and all who have participated. -John Monash, 24 April 1915 These extraordinary, intimate letters from ...Show more
The White Road : Journey into an Obsession by Edmund De Waal
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Category: REM Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling internationa ...Show more