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Brief Lives: Gustave FlaubertBy Hesperus Press Ltd |
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Ways of EscapeBy Penguin Books Ltd
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A Fine Brush On Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane AustenBy OUP Oxford |
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Looking Back: 'Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, 1929-56', 'Almost a Gentleman: An Autobiography, 1955-66': Never Explain, Never ApologiseBy Faber and Faber |
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The Orton DiariesBy Da Capo Press Inc
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going HomeBy Henry Holt & Company |
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Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963By HarperPerennial
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My Family and Other AnimalsBy Penguin Books Ltd
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John Keats (Penguin Literary Biographies)By Penguin Books
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Letters Home 1953-60: CorrespondenceBy Faber and Faber
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Saul Bellow. Ravelstein. Allan Bloom.
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Copper Queen Library: What's New?: Spotlight on Biographies: Writers
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http://copperqueenlibrary2.blogspot.com/2009/11/spotlight-on-biographies-writers.html
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