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Product Description: Book by Spurling, Hilary
Hardcover:
9780394470290 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1984, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: Recounts the life of the noted novelist, from the isolation and tragedy of her youth to her surprising emergence as a writer and the unexpected happiness of her later years
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9780231083836, titled "Ivy: The Life of I. Compton Burnett" | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 1986), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Book by Spurling, Hilary
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9780805282047 | Not Applicable, March 1, 1985, cover price $9.95
Hardcover:
9780670815920 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Includes recipes from early seventeenth-century England, written down by the wife of a nobleman, and adapted for use by modern cooks
Hardcover:
9780393029383 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author offers a portrait of the enigmatic Paul Scott, detailing his youth, his years in India and the Far East, his career as a literary agent, the development of his writing, and his strange private life
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9780517143704 | Random House Value Pub, May 1, 1995, cover price $2.99
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9780679434283 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of the artist, Henri Matisse, discussing his early youth, his conflict with the art establishment of the time, and his family's involvement in the scandalous 'Humbert Affair'
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9780375711336 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 18, 2005, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Presents a portrait of the artist, Henri Matisse, discussing his early youth, his conflict with the art establishment of the time, and his family's involvement in the scandalous 'Humbert Affair.
9780520222038 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $22.50
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9780060196226 | Harpercollins, July 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of ThTrFse Humbert, the fabled 'billionaire's daughter,' covering her rise from peasant status to high society salon doyenne, and citing the carefully fabricated illusions she wove around herself in order to rise to power.
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9780060955922 | Perennial, July 1, 2001, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of ThTrFse Humbert, the fabled 'billionaire's daughter,' covering her rise from peasant status to high society salon doyenne, and citing the carefully fabricated illusions she wove around herself in order to rise to power.
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9780756779214 | Diane Pub Co, May 31, 2001, cover price $22.00
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9781582432434 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A portrait of George Orwell's second wife notes her achievements with Cyril Connolly on 'Horizon' magazine, her editorial work on her husband's nonfiction writings, his portrayal of her as Julia in '1984,' and the burdens she took on in widowhood.
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9781582432441 | Counterpoint, May 5, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sonia Orwell, widow of George Orwell, was blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune after he died.
9780141008172 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 5, 2003), cover price $10.80 | About this edition: George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as a manipulative gold-digger.
Hardcover:
9780679434290 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 6, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the later years of the influential artist, interweaving analyses of his work with a study of Matisse's relationships with family and friends, trips around the world, the women in his life, and the continuing influences on the evolution of his art.
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9780375711534, titled "Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954" | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 2, 2007), cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The second volume in a masterful two-part biography, following The Unknown Matisse, chronicles the later years of the influential artist, interweaving analyses of his work with a study of Matisse's relationships with family and friends, trips around the world, the women in his life, and the continuing influences on the evolution of his art.
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9788477652397 | Circe, April 30, 2006, cover price $29.95
Contains character, book, painting and place indices. This work is a database of Anthony Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. It details over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's fifty-year dance of fiction and fact.
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9780099484363 | New edition (Random House Uk Ltd, March 1, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Contains character, book, painting and place indices.
Therese Humbert was one of the most conspicuous women of fin-de-siecle Paris. Her astronomical wealth, as the illegitimate daughter of an American billionaire, was known to all. She lived a life of sumptuous extravagance. But it was all a hoax. Finally exposed in 1902, she was found to own nothing than an old trouser button and an Italian coin.
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9781861978547 | Profile Books Ltd, April 1, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Therese Humbert was one of the most conspicuous women of fin-de-siecle Paris.
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9788477652595 | Circe, June 30, 2007, cover price $21.95
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9780307263964 | Everymans Library, July 3, 2007, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Set against the backdrop of Gandhi's calls for independence and a potential Japanese invasion, four masterful historical novels--The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of the Spoils--covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India.
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9780571251902 | Gardners Books, June 18, 2009, cover price $42.25 | About this edition: 'It is a real cause for celebration when the best and most subtle literary biography of our time comes back into print, and in a single volume instead of the original two.
Miscellaneous:
9781439180440 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2010, cover price $12.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781609811501 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, September 1, 2010), cover price $60.99 | About this edition: One of the twentieth centuryâs most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.
Hardcover:
9781416540427 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2010), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China.
Paperback:
9781416540434 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, June 28, 2011), cover price $16.00
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