New York: Ballantine Books, 1997. — 442 p. Born in 1757, the son of a London hosier was William Blake - poet, painter, and engraver - possessed one of the most original and fertile creative geniuses of his age. Yet his strange aloofness and claims of supernatural visions caused many in his own time and since to doubt his sanity, and much of his astonishing poetry and visual art...
William Morrow, 2012. — 576 p. — ISBN10: 0062204572, ISBN: 1: 978-0062204578. Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the Queen of Mystery. Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran’s fascinating biographies Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the...
William Morrow, 2012. — 576 p. — ISBN10: 0062204572, ISBN13: 978-0062204578. Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the Queen of Mystery. Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran’s fascinating biographies Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the...
William Morrow, 2012. — 576 p. — ISBN10: 0062204572, ISBN13: 978-0062204578. Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the Queen of Mystery. Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran’s fascinating biographies Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 — ISBN: 978-0743294591 Roald Dahl (born Roald Dahl, 1916–1990) was a Welsh writer of novels, fairy tales and short stories. Master of the paradoxical story. About the book: When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 — ISBN: 978-0743294591 Roald Dahl (born Roald Dahl, 1916–1990) was a Welsh writer of novels, fairy tales and short stories. Master of the paradoxical story. About the book: When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009 — ISBN: 978-0743294591 Roald Dahl (born Roald Dahl, 1916–1990) was a Welsh writer of novels, fairy tales and short stories. Master of the paradoxical story. About the book: When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0299183400. This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 592 p. Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce...
Penguin Random House, 2015. — 105 p. Born into wealth in 1860 s London, Beatrix Potter always had a vivid imagination. Her early interests included natural history and archaeology, and Potter delighted in sketching fossils and fungi. After briefly illustrating Christmas cards with her brother, Bertram, Potter wrote and illustrated her well-known book, "The Tale of Peter...
Penguin, 2017. — 112 p. Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — ISBN: 978-0-674-98202-4. Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde’s final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of “gross indecency” between men. "Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years" challenges the prevailing, traditional view of Wilde as a...
1857 Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the official life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4088-1812-1, 978-0-374-12375-8. Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective — celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of...
London: Penguin Workshop, 2012. — 112 p. Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force, he was married to an Academy Award-winning actress. He also wrote books and screenplays for adults. Entertaining and readable, this biography has 80...
Pantheon, 2007. — 1008 p. — ISBN: 0375424989; ISBN13: 9780375424984. Here is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century literature, renowned for his blistering intelligence, savage wit and belligerent fierceness of opinion: Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation – having first achieved...
Vintage Digital, 2014. — 567 p. A sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotland. Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The greatest of Scottish novelists, Stevenson lived a life as extraordinary and as absorbing as his books. But it was a life tormented by...
The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. Thomas Hardy was shy to a fault. He surrounded his house, Max Gate, with a dense curtain of trees, shunned publicity and investigative reporters, and when visitors arrived unexpectedly he slipped quietly out of the back door to avoid them. Furthermore, following the death of his first wife Emma, he burnt, page by page, a book-length manuscript...
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. — 1946. — 345 p. including index. Few personalities in the history of literature have aroused so much interest as that of Oscar Wilde, yet the essentials of his nature are still not recognized and we are left to catch glimpses of the real man in the scattered reminiscences of the period. Here, at last, is the whole life of the man who...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — xix, 256 p. — (Author Chronologies). — ISBN: 978-1-349-52308-5, 978-0-230-59798-3, 978-0-333-71484-3. Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six best-selling novels. Her many love affairs, her war-work with UNRRA, her move from early communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint, her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 420 p. The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. - Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe - Places emphasis on Defoe’s...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 544 p. The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her...
St. Martin’s Press, 2010. — 342 p. — ISBN: 978-0312612986. A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton’s all-star "Alice in Wonderland". Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf’s "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" shines a new light on the...
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