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1	Jane Austen's Letters more books like this by Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (Editor) add to wishlist As might be expected, Jane Austen was a sharp and witty letter-writer. Fortunately, she was also a prolific correspondent. This collection of her letters illuminates the brilliantly clever young woman who wrote some of the world's greatest novels. see all copies from $3.16! new only from $12.44! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Jane Austen: A Life more books like this by Claire Tomalin add to wishlist A biography of Jane Austen that places her in the period in which she wrote, and emphasizes the evolution of her works. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $2.08! new only from $7.35! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson more books like this by Piers Dudgeon add to wishlist This newly revised biography pieces together the uncensored details of Catherine Cookson's troubled and tempestuous life through a unique combination of previously unreleased material and Catherine's own, personal account. In addition to the original conversations between Catherine and Piers Dudgeon, it includes information contributed by some of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions
4	Jane Austen for Dummies more books like this by Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray add to wishlist This title explains Austen's methods, motivations, and morals. It offers a fun and easy way to understand and enjoy Jane Austen. Want to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why ... see all copies from $4.78! new only from $6.20! \| SVS
5	Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography--1949-1962 more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist The second volume of novelist Doris Lessing's autobiography. Born in Iran of English parents, Lessing lived in England as a small child but was eventually taken to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family and raised there. Volume 2 describes her life after she moved back to England following the publication of her first novel in 1949. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Point Counter Point more books like this by Aldous Huxley add to wishlist Huxley's celebrated fictional portrait of London intellectuals in the 1920s includes such characters as the decadent painter John Bidlake and his son Walter, Walter's hapless wife Marjorie Carling, the vile fascist politician Everard Webley, the thoroughly unpleasant Maurice Spandrell, and a revolutionary named Illidge. These characters are offset ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Prison Diary more books like this by Jeffrey Archer add to wishlist The author recounts his incarceration in a high-security prison after committing perjury, a period during which he became suicidal, lost his mother, and was targeted due to his celebrity status. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Moments of Being: Second Edition more books like this by Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (Editor) add to wishlist Moments of Being contains Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing: "By far the most important book about Virginia Woolf...that has appeared since her death" [Angus Wilson, Observer (London)]. Edited and with an Introduction by Jeanne Schulkind; Index. see all copies from $3.25! new only from $6.80! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Dickens more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist, Dickens the radical and the actor, Dickens the prematurely exhausted middle-aged man whose own unquiet fictions seem to shape his life itself, Dickens the performer, Dickens ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Experience more books like this by Martin Amis add to wishlist Martin Amis is perhaps the most gifted novelist of his generation. His prose refashions the English language into a lean and brillant instrument, dazzling readers with its energy and wit. His novels and short stories chart a world that is uniquely his: as John Updike puts it, 'Amis is trying to construct a large, reaching, ambitious set of books - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Beatrix Potter: A Journal more books like this by Beatrix Potter add to wishlist This collection includes the unabridged text and original illustrations of all 23 of Potter's tales for children. Arranged in the order in which they were originally published, these stories stand alone, but are linked together by several characters and events. see all copies from $5.51! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Writer's Notebook more books like this by W Somerset Maugham add to wishlist From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer's workshop. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Will This Do?: An Autobiography more books like this by Auberon Waugh add to wishlist The autobiography of Auberon Waugh, son of the famous novelist Evelyn Waugh and an accomplished writer in his own right. Waugh describes his life with his famously irascible father, his unhappy school days, his more successful army years, and the start of his career as a journalist and writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer more books like this by Nevil Shute add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $33.84! \| first editions \| SVS
15	A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep more books like this by Rumer Godden add to wishlist Godden's memoir of her days in India. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.65! \| first editions
16 view cover	Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography more books like this by P D James add to wishlist British civil servant and acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James offers snippets of her life and musings in diary form. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography more books like this by J G Ballard add to wishlist 'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $10.04! \| signed copies
18 view cover	Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens more books like this by Claire Tomalin add to wishlist From 1857 until his death in 1870, Charles Dickens had a close relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan. The story isn't yet fully known, since even by the standards of his age, Dickens was exceptionally keen to preserve his reputation and strict secrecy was maintained, but Ellen may have had a child by him. Claire Tomalin looks at this and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.59! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Bronte Myth more books like this by Lucasta Miller add to wishlist Lucasta Miller traces the history of attitudes toward the Brontë sisters, from Mrs. Gaskell's moralizing biography of Charlotte in 1857 to the hordes of fans who buy Brontë tea towels and perfume at the famous parsonage in Yorkshire today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived more books like this by Penelope Lively add to wishlist This memoir from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning writer, Penelope Lively details her childhood as an English girl in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Captured in Lively's fine prose are a visit to a fellaheen village, summers on the beach at Alexandria, and a harrowing sojourn in Palestine during wartime. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.22! \| first editions
21 view cover	Mirror of the Sea more books like this by Joseph Conrad add to wishlist In THE MIRROR OF THE SEA, Conrad records some of his impressions and memories of his years on the ocean. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	House with Four Rooms more books like this by Rumer Godden add to wishlist This is the second volume of Rumer Godden's autobiography, spanning the years 1945-77. The sequel to "A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep", this book looks at her life between the ages of 40 and 70. She is the author of "The Greengage Summer", "Black Narcissus", "The River" and "Thursday's Children". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $73.44! \| first editions
23 view cover	An autobiography more books like this by Anthony Trollope add to wishlist Trollope's version of his life story is notable for its candor and objectivity, and for its revelations of the details of a forbidden topic in proper Victorian society: money. He confesses that he earned, to date, a total of £58, 959. 17s. 5 d and gives a detailed accounting of his earnings for each book. (The other forbidden topic--sex--is, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.13! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Nancy Mitford more books like this by Hastings add to wishlist Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all "The Pursuit of Love", "Love in a Cold Climate" and "The Blessing", she became a huge bestseller and a household name. An inveterate writer of letters, she wrote almost daily ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	J. K. Rowling a Biography more books like this by Sean Smith add to wishlist She is the creator of probably the most famous - and certainly the best-loved - character in contemporary fiction. She is also the author of her own escape from an existence on the brink of poverty, with no job and few prospects. On the one hand there is J.K. Rowling, who wrote, and continues to write, the Harry Potter novels,a literary phenomenon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.50! \| first editions

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