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If you loved Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War — Amanda Vaill

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

J.D. Salinger and the Nazis — Eberhard Alsen

J.D. Salinger and the Nazis

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Truman Capote In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career — George Plimpton

Truman Capote In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

George Plimpton

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Native Realm A Search for Self-definition — Czesław Miłosz

Native Realm A Search for Self-definition — Czesław Miłosz

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Agatha Christie at Home — Hilary Macaskill

Agatha Christie at Home

Hilary Macaskill

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Ethnic American Literature An Encyclopedia for Students — Emmanuel S. Nelson

Ethnic American Literature An Encyclopedia for Students

Emmanuel S. Nelson

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Bunyan — James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Caribbean Visionary A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation — Selwyn R. Cudjoe

Caribbean Visionary A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation

Selwyn R. Cudjoe

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Memoranda During the War — Walt Whitman

Memoranda During the War

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

The Mystery of Charles Dickens — A. N. Wilson

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Dickens and Christmas — Lucinda Hawksley

Dickens and Christmas

Lucinda Hawksley

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Ovid in Exile — Adrian Rădulescu

Adrian Rădulescu

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom — Thomas E. Ricks

Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E. Ricks

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

The Real Jane Austen A Life in Small Things — Paula Byrne

The Real Jane Austen A Life in Small Things

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Memoirs — Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

La Folie Baudelaire — Roberto Calasso

La Folie Baudelaire

Roberto Calasso

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

The Book-makers A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives — Adam Smyth

The Book-makers A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Solzhenitsyn A Biography — Michael Scammell

Solzhenitsyn A Biography

Michael Scammell

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Dante The Story of His Life — Marco Santagata

Dante The Story of His Life

Marco Santagata

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum — Kathryn Hughes

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self — Claire Tomalin

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

Journey Through a Small Planet — Emanuel Litvinoff

Journey Through a Small Planet

Emanuel Litvinoff

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599 — James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Biography & Autobiography

If Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Amanda Vaill, Eberhard Alsen, George Plimpton, Czeslaw Milosz, and others.

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