Books - "biography"
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The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev
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PUBLISHER: The Ecco Press 1986
KEYWORDS: collection biography Turgenev Russian authors 19th century V S Pritchett
Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee
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PUBLISHER: Aurum 2006
KEYWORDS: 20th century music Peggy Lee country swing life live biography
Lytton Strachey
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PUBLISHER: Chattp & Windus 1994
KEYWORDS: 20th century life lives literary biography
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
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PUBLISHER: William Collins 2025
KEYWORDS: Alfrd Lord Tennyson 19th century poetry life lives literary biography
Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan: Their Lives, Works and Critical Reception, 1868-1926
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PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company 2000
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese life lives biography biographies women literature critic
A Stranger in Tibet: The Adventures of a Zen Monk
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PUBLISHER: Flamingo 1990
KEYWORDS: Scott Berry life lives biography Tibetan monk
West with the Night
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PUBLISHER: North Point Press 1983
KEYWORDS: Beryl Markham aviation life lives biography autobiography memoir
Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea
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PUBLISHER: Pushkin Press 2016
KEYWORDS: life lives biography memoirs Russia travel
Erik Satie
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PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2014
KEYWORDS: Erik Satie life lives music biography
The Undoing: A Friendship that Changed the World
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2017
KEYWORDS: 20th century history economics life lives biography
How to Live Well or A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
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PUBLISHER: Vintage 2011
KEYWORDS: life lives biography Montaigne philosophy intellectual history
Keats
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1998
KEYWORDS: life lives literary biography John Keats 19th century poetry poet
The Portrait of Zelide
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PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1926
KEYWORDS: Geoffrey Scott life lives biography history
Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoievski
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PUBLISHER: Archibald Constable & Co. 1902
KEYWORDS: Leo Tolstoy life lives literary biography Dostoievsky Dostoyevski Dostoevsky
Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening
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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1975
KEYWORDS: life lives biography spiritual spirituality
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
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PUBLISHER: Wiley 2019
KEYWORDS: life lives biography China United States America business
A Birthday Book for Brother Stone
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PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: David Hawkes sinology life lives biography classical ancient Chinese scholarship
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A Remarkable True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope
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PUBLISHER: Headline 2019
KEYWORDS: life lives biography Syria Aleppo war wartime civilian cats