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Charles Dickens
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The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
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4.26 avg rating — 170 ratings
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James Joyce
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4.34 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
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4.07 avg rating — 992 ratings
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The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
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3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Alexander Pope: A Life
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4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 10,885 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 102,180 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 35,001 ratings
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Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
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4.44 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
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4.48 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
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3.89 avg rating — 4,428 ratings
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Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
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4.12 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Tolstoy: A Biography
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4.03 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 368,883 ratings
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Victor Hugo: A Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 226 ratings
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D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
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4.09 avg rating — 76 ratings
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T.S. Eliot
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3.91 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Ibsen
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4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings
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A.A. Milne. His life
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3.93 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Orwell
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3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Trollope
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4.11 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Anthony Trollope
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3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Alexandre Dumas: Genius of Life
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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My memoirs
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4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year
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3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Chere Maitre: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert and George Sand
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet : Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Letters, 1925-1975
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3.92 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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3.85 avg rating — 9,040 ratings
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The Brontës
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3.98 avg rating — 5,304 ratings
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Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
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4.11 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
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3.94 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
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3.29 avg rating — 2,865 ratings
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The Brontë Myth
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3.91 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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3.88 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Vera
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3.87 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
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3.91 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Hawthorne: A Life
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3.97 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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4.02 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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Henry David Thoreau
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Transcendental Saunterer: Thoreau and the Search for Self
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Amos Bronson Alcott: An Intellectual Biography
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
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3.95 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait
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4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Walt Whitman's Diary: A Summer in Canada, 1880
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
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3.80 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865; Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the Beginnings of American Literature
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3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books)
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4.43 avg rating — 780 ratings
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The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
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4.06 avg rating — 504 ratings
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
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4.23 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
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3.88 avg rating — 1,757 ratings
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Sontag: Her Life and Work
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4.23 avg rating — 2,276 ratings
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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3.95 avg rating — 20,826 ratings
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
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4.28 avg rating — 40,663 ratings
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Machiavelli in Hell
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3.77 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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4.08 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Edith Wharton: A Biography
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4.09 avg rating — 449 ratings
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Robert Frost, the Years of Triumph 1915-1938
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
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3.99 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
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4.02 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
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4.15 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
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3.91 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
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4.30 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
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4.27 avg rating — 820 ratings
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The Life of Kingsley Amis
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3.95 avg rating — 82 ratings
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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
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3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Dostoevsky: A Biography His Life and Work
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3.96 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.11 avg rating — 22,885 ratings
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Herman Melville: A Biography (Vol. 1, 1819-1851)
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4.11 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
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4.07 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Genet: A Biography
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4.21 avg rating — 710 ratings
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George Orwell: The Authorised Biography
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4.17 avg rating — 296 ratings
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George Santayana: A Biography
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Hemingway
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3.96 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 108,073 ratings
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John Updike: A Critical Biography
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
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3.81 avg rating — 599 ratings
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A Drinking Life
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3.97 avg rating — 4,445 ratings
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A Russian Journal
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4.09 avg rating — 4,601 ratings
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A TRAMP ABROAD : ANNOTATED
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3.86 avg rating — 2,994 ratings
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Autobiography
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4.06 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
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4.04 avg rating — 794 ratings
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Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
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4.01 avg rating — 793 ratings
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In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography, 1920-1954
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4.20 avg rating — 535 ratings
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Walt Whitman: A Life
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3.94 avg rating — 326 ratings
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