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1	Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This more books like this by Marion Meade This biography of one of America's great 20th century humorists traces her climb to celebrity status in New York during the 1920s and 1930s. It tells of her three broken marriages, her personal tragedies and her relationships with key figures like Lillian Hellman and Scott Fitzgerald. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.55! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography more books like this by Marion Meade A compassionate and comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century. A stunning biography of one of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.86! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties more books like this by Marion Meade This survey of the most prominent writers of the 1920s includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edna Ferber, Edmund Wilson, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and many more. Marion Meade also explores the ambiance of the period--the drinking, partying, and pranks, as well as the depression, instability, alcoholism, and insanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.37! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography more books like this by Marion Meade Previous biographies have either been principally studies of his work (John Baxter's WOODY ALLEN: A LIFE, HarperCollins, 1998) or authorised (Eric Lax's WOODY ALLEN: A LIFE, Cape, 1992). Marion Meade tells the whole story from his working class beginnings in the Bronx, through his early career as a gag writer for New York newspaper columnists, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Eleanor of Aquitaine more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Stealing Heaven more books like this by Marion Meade This fiction is based on fact: the 12th century love letters of the novel's main character, Heloise, the most brilliant and learned woman of Christian Europe who, at the age of 17, fell in love with her tutor, Peter Abelard. A celebrated philosopher, he was considered a cleric and forbidden to wed. Nevertheless they married clandestinely and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.29! \| first editions
7	Stealing heaven : the love story of Heloise and Abelard more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	The Ladies of the Corridor more books like this by Dorothy Parker, Arnaud D'Usseau, Marion Meade (Introduction by) One of the foremost humorists in literature, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen "The Ladies of the Corridor". Loosely based on Parker's life, it is a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. With husbands dead and children, if any, too busy for aging parents, the ladies are empty ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.44! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Bitching more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase more books like this by Marion Meade On the advent of Buster Keaton's 100th birthday, Meade presents the definitive biography of one of the 20th century's greatest comic geniuses. With a mind that engineered some of the most intricate moments of slapstick comedy, Keaton became an icon of American cinema. Drawing on over 200 interviews, Meade reveals details about the private Keaton ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.80! \| first editions
11	Madame Blavatsky, the Woman Behind the Myth more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $10.00! new only from $30.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Sybille more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $4.64! new only from $12.86! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Buster Keaton PB more books like this by Marion Meade Buster Keaton (18951966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films and nineteen short comedies, which are perhaps the finest silent pictures ever made. With a face of stone and a mind that engineered breathtakingly intricate moments of slapstick, Keaton has become an ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $16.42! \| SVS
15	Tennis more books like this by Marion Meade Biographical sketches of five women tennis champions: Billie Jean King, Rosemary Casals, Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, and Margaret Court. see all copies from $1.99!
16 view cover	A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York more books like this by Kevin C Fitzpatrick, Marion Meade (Foreword by) Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs Parker, this guide uses rarely seen archival photographs from her life to illustrate Dorothy Parker's development as a writer, a formidable wit, and a public persona. Her favourite bars and salons as well as her homes and offices, most of which ... see all copies from $12.62! new only from $12.62!
17 view cover	Dorothy Parker more books like this by Marion Meade see all copies from $15.00! new only from $44.01! \| first editions
18 view cover	Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker more books like this by Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade (Editor), Lorna Raver (Read by) This collection of more than thirty short stories and poems is essential for any Parker fan and an excellent way for new readers to make the acquaintance of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. see all copies from $16.16! new only from $22.87!
19	Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? a Biography more books like this by Marion Meade Dorothy Parker was known as the wittiest woman in America during the 1920s and 1930s. In this lively, absorbing biography, Meade illuminates both the dark side of Parker and her days of wicked wittiness at the Alguonquin Round Table with the likes of William Faulkner. Photos. see all copies from $99.00!
20 view cover	Selected Readings from the Portable Dorothy Parker (Abridged) more books like this by Marion Meade, Lorna Raver This collection of more than thirty short stories and poems is essential for any Parker fan and an excellent way for new readers to make the acquaintance of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. see all copies from $48.00! new only from $48.00!
21	The Little Book of Big Bad Jokes more books like this by Marion Meade A collection of sixty-four new and old jokes. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22	Free Woman more books like this by Marion Meade A biography of the spiritualist, stock broker, publisher, lecturer, advocate of women's rights, and Presidential candidate who shocked nineteenth-century America with her revolutionary ideas and behavior. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	The Little Book of Big Riddles more books like this by Marion Meade A collection of new and old riddles with illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	La Folle Vie De Woody Allen by Marion Meade see all copies from $23.00!

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