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William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have surrounded the siblings since the 19th century, but Lucy Newlyn sees their...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-09-12
Format(s) : PDF
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-08-01
Format(s) : PDF
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In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn’t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house.In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous...
Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2013-06-11
Format(s) : ePub
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When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas found himself in his mother's fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him through his life, even as he found the literary acclaim he sought after his...
Editeur : Blackfriars
Parution : 2013-06-06
Format(s) : ePub
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The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2013-03-12
Format(s) : ePub
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An accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - Enigma. Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he a little bit boring? This is an essential guide for anyone who has...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-02-07
Collection :
Brief Histories
Format(s) : ePub
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelistOlivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-01-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelistOlivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-01-10
Format(s) : PDF
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The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it.'He was a man of...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2012-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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James's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson ended in 1894 when he tried to drown a boatload of her dresses in the Venetian lagoon; she had fallen to her death three months before. It was an elusive friendship that echoed his mysterious relationship with Minny...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2012-11-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-09-06
Format(s) : PDF
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Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-09-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-06-28
Format(s) : ePub
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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes' Observer'Thoughtful and sensuous'Daily TelegraphThis illuminating collection...
Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2012-05-10
Format(s) : ePub
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'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.'
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-05-10
Format(s) : ePub
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'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.'
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-05-10
Format(s) : PDF
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Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-02-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2012-02-20
Format(s) : PDF
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Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying Earth, the Lyonesse trilogy, the adventures of Cugel the Clever, the Demon...
Editeur : Gateway
Parution : 2011-12-21
Format(s) : ePub
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Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction. Son of one of the most popular and best-loved novelists of the post-War era, he has forged a groundbreaking manner of writing that owes nothing to the style of his father, nor indeed...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2011-11-03
Format(s) : ePub
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