Two works of beautifully imagined biography join two affecting, true-life accounts to make this celebrated collection of remarkable lives.
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories
of Irène Némirovsky By Her Daughter
By Élisabeth Gille
Translated by Marina Harss
“I have never before come upon a book at once as loving and
as devastating as The Mirador by Élisabeth Gille, the daughter
of Irène Némirovsky… written in the voice of Némirovsky
herself, as a kind of ventriloquized autobiography—the autobiography
that Némirovsky might have written.”
—Ruth Franklin, The New Republic
The World As I Found It
By Bruce Duffy
Introduction by David Leavitt
A daring reimagining of the lives of three very different
men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Alice James: A Biography
By Jean Strouse
Preface by Colm Tóibín
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
“From an isolated, eventless existence, Jean Strouse extracts
something that did not exist for centuries: a woman’s interior
life.” —Stacy Schiff , The Wall Street Journal
Hons and Rebels
By Jessica Mitford
Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
A hugely entertaining tale of Mitford’s upbringing, which
was, as she dryly remarks, “not exactly conventional… ”
