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“beth ann hooper”

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  • The Roots That Clutch

    by Beth Ann Hooper ...
    Secrets have a way of being found out.Uncovering the hidden secrets of her literary heroes was the last thing Jane expected when she began her PhD research on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. But as she delves deeper into the prestigious universities and dusty manuscript libraries, she discovers a shocking truth: her own family may have been involved in a scandalous affair with another titan of American ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Roots That Clutch, The

    Based On a True Story

    by Beth Ann Hooper ...
    Narrated by Beth Ann Hooper, Megan Breuer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Secrets have a way of being found out.Uncovering the hidden secrets of her literary heroes was the last thing Jane expected when she began her PhD research on T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. But as she delves deeper into the prestigious universities and dusty manuscript libraries, she discovers a shocking truth: her own family may have been involved in a scandalous affair with another titan of American ... Read more

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  • Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

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  • T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life

    by Lyndall Gordon ...
    The definitive biography of the twentieth century’s great poet.T. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole school of literary criticism. Today, as long-awaited personal papers and letters emerge, there is a new impetus to reexamine and ... Read more

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  • A Memoir of My Former Self

    A Life in Writing

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERSIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the ... Read more

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  • Big Reader

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    by Susan Olding ...
    A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayistsEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young ... Read more

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  • A Factotum in the Book Trade

    by Marius Kociejowski ...
    The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the ... Read more

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  • A Guest at the Feast

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    by Colm Toibin ...
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    A son's personal exploration of one of the most influential—and troubled—artistic couples of the twentieth centuryStephen Spender's life, with all its secrets, successes, and contradictions, is a vivid prism through which to view the twentieth century. He befriended Auden and Isherwood while at Oxford, and together the three had wildly transgressive adventures in Europe and were early vocal ... Read more

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