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Product Description: Laurie Lee greeted his daughter Jessy's arrival into the world with a small, but in his trademark style, lyrical essay, originally published in 1963. This is a republication of that enchanting essay - filling just 40 pages, and published in hardback with a soft and subtle-colored ribbon marker...read more

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9781906509941 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 16, 2014, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Laurie Lee greeted his daughter Jessy's arrival into the world with a small, but in his trademark style, lyrical essay, originally published in 1963.
9781861051011 | Robson Book Ltd, September 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: 1964: by Laurie Lee- Published in the U.

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, a book of words and pictures, includes colour and black and white photographs, SIGNED by author on title page

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9780233974675, titled "Two Women: A Book of Words and Pictures" | Olympic Marketing Corp, March 1, 1984, cover price $5.98 | also contains Two Women: A Book of Words and Pictures | About this edition: , a book of words and pictures, includes colour and black and white photographs, SIGNED by author on title page

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9781597842679 | Tughra Books, April 16, 2012, cover price $7.50

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Product Description: This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in male lodgers with the hope they would become her lovers...read more

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9780375424748 | Pantheon Books, July 22, 2008, cover price $26.00
9780224080606 | Vintage Uk, May 1, 2008, cover price $30.65 | About this edition: Winner of the J.

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9780307278937 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 14, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This is the story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas - a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie - a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.

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A collection of essays on the benefits and challenges of being, or living with, a writer includes Nadine Gordimer's reflections on living with herself, Margaret Drabble on her relationship with Malcolm Holroyd, and Paul Theroux's experiences with V. S. Naipaul.
By John Bayley (contributor), Malcolm Bradbury (contributor), Margaret Drabble (contributor), Nadine Gordimer (contributor), Dale Salwak (editor) and John Updike (contributor)

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9781403904768 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 6, 2004, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the benefits and challenges of being, or living with, a writer includes Nadine Gordimer's reflections on living with herself, Margaret Drabble on her relationship with Malcolm Holroyd, and Paul Theroux's experiences with V.

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Product Description: When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780940322127 | New York Review of Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When his father died, J.
9780671656751 | Reprint edition (Poseidon Pr, January 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The author shares his memories of his philandering father and describes his growing awareness of his own homosexuality

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By Norman Page (editor)

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9780415192200 | Routledge, January 1, 1999, cover price $1775.00

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A collection of personal memoirs chronicles the life of the original 'Christopher Robin,' the son of A. A. Milne, the famous creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780525458883 | E P Dutton, October 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of the original 'Christopher Robin'

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Product Description: This reassessment of Somerset Maugham's life reveals a different man from the one of popular thought. It explores his life as a young man-about-town, his marriage - much of it spent abroad with his American lover Gerald Haxton, and the influence of his brothers, one of whom became Lord Chancellor...read more

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9781856192743 | Trafalgar Square, February 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This reassessment of Somerset Maugham's life reveals a different man from the one of popular thought.

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9780060634476 | Reissue edition (Harperone, June 1, 1994), cover price $9.99

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Uses family photographs and keepsakes to trace the life of the popular British novelist, and describes his education, World War I experiences, and family life

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9780395599389 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Uses family photographs and keepsakes to trace the life of the popular British novelist, and describes his education, World War I experiences, and family life

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Focusing on C.S. Lewis as a father and husband rather than as a legendary writer, one of Lewis' step-sons intimately portrays life in the Lewis household and reflects on his step-father's influence on his values and outlook on life

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9780025455702 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Focusing on C.

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The novelist and essayist presents an exuberant, often humorous memoir of his remarkable, undauntable parents--Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed--recounting their street-corner Catholic evangelism, their lecture and writing careers, and their relationship withtheir son

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9780671449902 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The novelist and essayist presents an exuberant, often humorous memoir of his remarkable, undauntable parents--Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed--recounting their street-corner Catholic evangelism, their lecture and writing careers, and their relationship withtheir son

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9780671628130 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, September 22, 1986), cover price $20.95

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Product Description: , a book of words and pictures, includes colour and black and white photographs, SIGNED by author on title page

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9780233974675 | Olympic Marketing Corp, March 1, 1984, cover price $5.98 | also contains Uthman ibn Affan: Bearer of Two Pure Lights | About this edition: , a book of words and pictures, includes colour and black and white photographs, SIGNED by author on title page

The popular British novelist discusses her childhood and her visits to her two grandmothers in a biographical celebration of life in an English village

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9780395344194 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The popular British novelist discusses her childhood and her visits to her two grandmothers in a biographical celebration of life in an English village

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Product Description: A Strachey Boy

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9780720605716 | Peter Owen Ltd, May 1, 1983, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A Strachey Boy

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Paperback:

9780856354281 | Carcanet Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $12.50

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Product Description: John Pearson has sympathetically portrayed the often turbulent private lives of this remarkable English family of poets, memoirists, critics, and patrons, and has evaluated their literary output, in a book that is as entertaining as it is knowledgeable. Index; illustrations.

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9780156826761 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1980, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: John Pearson has sympathetically portrayed the often turbulent private lives of this remarkable English family of poets, memoirists, critics, and patrons, and has evaluated their literary output, in a book that is as entertaining as it is knowledgeable.

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Product Description: Victorian memoirs

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9780002629898 | Wm Collins & Sons & Co, August 1, 1980, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Victorian memoirs

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