Date Published: 1935 to 1971 Binding: No binding & hard cover Enid Bagnold was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet and The Chalk Garden, a 1955 play. The collection is comprised of 11 items dating from 1935 to 1971, specifically 2 letters, 4..... More
Date Published: 1904 to 1955 Binding: No binding & soft cover Jules Romains (né Louis Henri Jean Farigoule), was a French poet, novelist, and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature sixteen times. Sinclair Lewis called him one of..... More
Date Published: 1950 & 1951 Binding: No binding Richard Wright was an important American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, who suffered discrimination and violence in..... More
Date Published: 1958 to 1965 Binding: No binding Étienne Gilson was a French Catholic philosopher, scholar, and an internationally renowned historian of ideas. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes, yet also philosophized in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, although he did not consider..... More
Date Published: 1963 to 196 Binding: No binding Sir Harold [Mario Mitchell] Acton was a British writer, aesthete, and scholar wrote fiction, biography, and autobiography. Born near Florence to a prominent Anglo-Italian family, he was educated at Eton College and Oxford. After serving as an RAF liaison officer in the..... More
Date Published: 1953 to 1962 Binding: No binding & soft cover Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of principal exponents of the nouveau roman movement, which emerged in France in the 1950s. Robbe-Grillet’s typical Möbius-strip narratives are intended to replicate the experiences of memory and..... More
Date Published: 1937 to 1966 Binding: No binding & hard cover INTERESTING EDITH SITWELL COLLECTION Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic..... More
Date Published: 1931 to 1939 Binding: No binding & soft cover SHE WAS A POPULAR AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER Irène Némirovsky born in Kiev, Ukraine was a novelist who lived most of her life in France after her family went into exile after the Russian Revolution. Although she wrote in..... More
Date Published: 1951 to 1952 Binding: No binding Charles Morgan was a British playwright, novelist and essayist, noted for his dedicated craftsmanship to English prose. He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1936 and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 to..... More
Date Published: 1960 to 1976 Binding: No binding William Gerhardi, later 1971, Gerhardie, was an Anglo-Russian playwright and novelist. At the beginning of his career, he was the toast of literary London and won praise from Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and other notable authors. The reaction of the..... More
Date Published: 1888 to 1892 Binding: No binding & hard cover Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist, best known for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), in which a Boston gentleman is placed in a trance in 1887, awakens in the year 2000, and is..... More