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Biography: literary
Brand: Harvard University Press
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMarco Santagata's ..
22.46£
Brand: Harvard University Press
A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgimento, World War I, and Mussolini's fascist dictatorship.Dante, whose Divine Comedy gave the world its mos..
36.04£
This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the pro..
12.41£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
"An intimate and illuminating glimpse at Ernest Hemingway as a father, revealed through a selection of letters he and his son Patrick exchanged over the span of twenty years. In the public imagination, Ernest Hemingway looms larger than life. But th..
28.73£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace' PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (New Year's Eve, ..
24.29£
Brand: Haus Publishing
November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the ..
14.39£
Brand: Haus Publishing
Marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens's death, Dickens's London leads us in the footsteps of the author through this beloved city. Few novelists have written so intimately about a place as Dickens wrote about London, and, from a young age..
13.91£
Brand: Random House
*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022*'Hugely engrossing... An exciting blend of ideas and personalities' John Carey, Sunday Times'As immersive and engaging as a multi-plot Victorian novel' Times Literary Supplement'Impressive... [An] elega..
32.09£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literar..
34.43£
When Sarah LeFanu was researching her 2003 biography of Rose Macaulay, she kept a detailed journal of her research trips and her processes as a biographer. She argued with herself over what to include, what to pursue, and what to leave behind. Her i..
18.80£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of ..
33.81£
Brand: Y Lolfa
A beautifully designed, fully illustrated introduction to the life and work of Dylan Thomas, probably Wales' most beloved writer. A biography and snippets from his acclaimed poems, stories and play Under Milk Wood are accompanied by striking photogr..
13.49£
Brand: Tilbury House Publishers
E. B. White (1899-1985) is best known for his children's books, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Columnist for The New Yorker for over half a century and co-author of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, White hit hi..
19.89£
Brand: Vintage Publishing
The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet,..
31.97£
Brand: Yale University Press
In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumi..
59.62£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in w..
11.33£
Brand: The History Press
Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all time, and helped turn Haworth into a place of literary pilgrimage. Whilst Emily Brontë wrote only one..
17.89£
Brand: Granta Publications
The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. --- The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author o..
27.52£ 28.43£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands 'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever they might lead.' Claire Messud, Harpers Magazine ..
15.85£
Brand: The History Press
Enid Blyton is known throughout the world for her imaginative childrens books and her enduring characters such as Noddy and the Famous Five. She is one of the most borrowed authors from British libraries and she holds a fascination for readers old a..
18.71£
Erika and Klaus Mann: Living with America provides new insights into the lives of Thomas Mann's two eldest children, by focusing on their years in America. It begins with Erika and Klaus Mann's self-promotional tour of the United States in 1927-1928..
99.71£
Incorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn's revelatory investigation of Hemingway's life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man. A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the YearThe "most fully faceted p..
27.08£
Brand: Princeton University Press
This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of his letters and manuscripts, items written about He..
69.74£ 72.78£
Brand: Yale University Press
In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers ..
21.53£