Publisher: becker&mayer! Books ISBN: (September 13, 2022). Publication date: September 13, 2022. Language: English. Print length: 240 p. ASIN: B0BDP13HQR. Take an intimate tour through the life and works of Stephen King, made vivid with rare photos and ephemera from King’s collection. Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King’s body of work over his nearly 50-year...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lion, 2008. — 258 p. John Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics. A radical Protestant and staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of Charles II, his...
Faber & Faber, 2022. — 667 p. — ISBN: 978 – 0 – 571 – 34593 – 9 From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his...
SPIEGEL-Verlag, 2016. — 281 S. Das Leben des erfolgreichsten, wirkungsmächtigsten Dramatikers der Welt ist ein Geheimnis: Wir wissen fast nichts über William Shakespeare. Er ist ein Phantom und seine Stücke, die jeder kennt, sind ein Kulturerbe der Welt. Vor 400 Jahren starb er und ist dafür immer noch erstaunlich lebendig. Und jeder neuen Zeit stehen seine Stücke neu...
Reaktion Books Ltd., 2019. — 256 p. — (Critical Lives). — ISBN: 978-1789141573, 978-1789141856. This is a book about the life and work of a singular writer, an author well-known for his biographies and travel writing but most famous for his novels The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. As a child, Stendhal witnessed the unfolding of the French Revolution; as a...
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...
Penguin Canada, 2008. — 324 p. Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie are icons of the Canadian imagination. Yet most of what we know of these two English gentlewomen who spent their adult lives struggling in Britain’s harsh and vigorous colony comes from their own self-consciously crafted writings and from other writers’ sometimes fanciful depictions of them. But what were...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2019. — 130 p. In this kids' biography, discover the incredible story of Anne Frank, the courageous young writer who hid from the Nazis during World War II. Anne Frank's diary is read by children and adults worldwide. It tells two stories: one of an extraordinary young girl living in hiding during one of the most fearsome times in history, and one...
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...
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...
Boston: Da Capo Press, 2000. — 352 p. At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad forThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. In 1970 he startled the world by stepping out onto a balcony in Tokyo before an assembly of troops and plunging a sword into his abdomen; a disciple then beheaded him,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 464 p. Vasily Grossman (1905-64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka", was the first eyewitness account of a Nazi death camp. Though he...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 424 p. If Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate , had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag . But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 352 p. Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders , award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 144 p. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for...
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...
Grosset & Dunlap, 2015. — 112 p. Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he enlisted in the Army and subsequently failed out of West Point. His first published story,...
Grosset & Dunlap, 2011. — 112 p. Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books-?like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 114 p. In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary...