Publication date: 1987-10-15 Price: £14.99
Review Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850 / Barrie & Jenkins:
Authors
- Isaak Glikman
- Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Creator: Anthony Phillips Publication date: 2001-10-22 Dewey code: 808 RRP: £25.00 Price: £12.49
Review Chronicle of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 1996-07-31 Dewey code: 914.947 Price: £15.99
Review Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69 / Dover Publications Inc.:
Edition: New Ed Publication date: 1995-11-02 Price: £8.99
Review Arthur Ransome on Fishing / Jonathan Cape:
Creator: Patricia Kelsall Publication date: 1997-10 RRP: £8.99 Price: £10.98
Review A Bull by the Back Door: How an English Family Find Their Own Paradise in Rural France / Leonie Press:
Publication date: 2000-05-11 Dewey code: 792.0232092 RRP: £16.99 Price: £0.01
Review Theatre@risk (Diaries, Letters and Essays) / Methuen Drama:
Creator: Jeff Wallace Publication date: 1995-04 Dewey code: 575.0162 Price: £14.99
Review Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species": New Interdisciplinary Essays (Texts in Culture) / Manchester University Press:
Edition: New Ed Publication date: 2000-07-20 Dewey code: 949.7023092 RRP: £12.99 Price: £29.95
Review Tito: The Story From Inside: The Story from the Inside / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Creator: Judith Hattaway Publication date: 1999-12-16 Dewey code: 808.80358 RRP: £29.50 Price: £72.41
Review Women's Writing on the First World War / Clarendon Press:
Publication date: 1989-07-01 Dewey code: 920 RRP: £15.95 Price: £12.54
Review Epistulae Morales: Letters I-LXV v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) / Loeb:
Publication date: 1995-10-18 Dewey code: 875.0108 RRP: £53.00 Price: £50.35
Review In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: Panegyrici Latini - Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage): ... (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) / University of California Press:
Edition: New Ed Publication date: 1997-10-09 Price: £4.99
Review A Small Place / Vintage:
Publication date: 1997-10-23 RRP: £14.99 Price: £9.89
Review Webster's World / Black and White Publishing:
Edition: New Ed Publication date: 1987-11-19 Dewey code: 920 RRP: £6.99 Price: £4.00
Review Character Parts / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Michael Bloch Publication date: 2000-10-26 Dewey code: 920 Price: £22.50
Review Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979-1981 / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New edition Publication date: 1991-02 Dewey code: 828.91209 RRP: £14.95 Price: £27.39
Review On the Stage-and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-be Actor / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Lynn Knight Edition: New edition Publication date: 2002-12-05 Dewey code: 808 RRP: £14.99 Price: £7.90
Review The Diaries of Beatrice Webb / Virago Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed Publication date: 2000-09-07 Dewey code: 808 RRP: £9.99 Price: £12.95
Review Letters Between a Father and Son: Early Correspondence Between V.S.Naipaul and Family / Abacus:Writing to his eldest son Vidia in Oxford in 1950, Seepersad Naipaul observed: "Your letters are charming in their spontaneity. If you could write me letters about things and people-especially people-at Oxford, I could compile them in a book: Letters Between a Father and Son or My Oxford Letters. Nearly fifty years later, the father's desire has been fulfilled by the son with the publication of VS Naipaul's Letters Between a Father and Son. The collection covers the period between Naipaul's departure from his native Trinidad in 1950 to study at Oxford, to the untimely death of his father in 1953 at the age of 47. Alongside the letters between father and son are those between Naipaul and his older sister, Kamla, a student at the Benares Hindu University in India, who is advised by her 17-year-old brother to watch your personal effects carefully; the Indians are a thieving lot. At the heart of the book lies Naipaul's undergraduate life at Oxford and his father's deeply moving support for his son, as he strives to maintain his own writing career whilst he watches his son's own literary talent flower. The minutiae of Naipaul's college life offers a fascinating account of the genesis of the querulous, fussy and patrician Naipaul. Letters are full of stories of Naipaul's endless rounds of tea parties, writing for the Oxford journal Isis, flirting with European women and endless requests for cigarettes from home. But the most revealing and moving dimension of the collection is the love and friendship between father and son. Seepersad both vents his own literary frustrations upon his son, whilst at the same time assuring Naipaul of his own unconditional support: "I feel so darned cocksure that I can produce a novel within six months-if only I had nothing else to do. [+]
This is impossible. But I want to give you this chance. " Seepersad's sudden death is very affecting, as is Naipaul's telegraphed response home: "Everything I owe to him. " This is a deeply revealing collection of one of the most enigmatic writers of the post-war period, which offers an absorbing insight into Naipaul's early fiction, particularly The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street. -JerryBrotton.
Publication date: 1989-07 Dewey code: 818.5403 RRP: £12.99 Price: £12.99
Review Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Memoir) / Graywolf Press,U.S.:
Creator: C.R. Haines Publication date: 1929-12 Dewey code: 937 RRP: £15.95 Price: £12.53
Review The Correspondence: v. 2 (Loeb Classical Library) / LOEB:
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