Publication date: 2003-07-01
Dewey code: 822.914
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.86
Review Tressell: The Real Story of the "Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" / Zed Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-06-05
Price: £1.50
Review Street Haunting (Pocket Penguins 70's) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 813.6
Price: £12.70
Review A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father / St. Martin's Press:
Publication date: 2002-11-08
Dewey code: 818.603
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.94
Review Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen / Basic Books:
Publication date: 1979-09
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £17.81
Price: £26.50
Review The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1932-1935 / Harvest Books:
Publication date: 1980-10-01
Dewey code: 821.8
RRP: £35.00
Price: £36.08
Review Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart / Oxford University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 813.6
Price: £7.12
Review Dry / Picador USA:
Publication date: 2003-10-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £25.00
Price: £0.87
Review Arthur Miller: A Life / Faber and Faber:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-08-16
Dewey code: 822.3
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.94
Review Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2008-04
Dewey code: 658.47
RRP: £7.63
Price: £4.08
Review Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag / Touchstone Books:
Publication date: 2002-06-06
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.85
Review Rosamond Lehmann: A Life / Chatto and Windus:
Publication date: 2005-10-11
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £12.19
Review The Year of Magical Thinking / Alfred A. Knopf:
Publication date: 2001-02-09
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.20
Review Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems / Picador:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-03-04
Dewey code: 821.914
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.50
Review Newborn (Picador Poetry) / Picador:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-09-10
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.97
Review A Traitor's Kiss: Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Granta Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-09-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.47
Review Mary Shelley / Picador:In some ways, she could hardly fail. Daughter of William Godwin (An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice) and Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), and wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley had literary radicalism in her blood and her bed. Inspired by a stormy night of ghost stories on Lake Geneva, where she, her husband, Byron and John Polidori were staying, Frankenstein the story was born, or given life, telling of love, rejection, and promethean ambition. Later in life she would talk of it as her "hideous progeny", and invite it to "go forth and prosper". By then it already had, its lifeblood drained by the vampiric attentions of the stage, as it would later be by the screen. And 18-year-old Mary still had the rest of her life to lead. Miranda Seymour convincingly supplants the monstrous legend with its creator, negotiating what she refers to as the "biographer's sandpit" of the novel, and its post-publication revisionism. After Shelley's death by drowning, Mary continued to write modestly received novels such as The Last Man and the despairingly autobiographical Mathilda, as well as short stories for ladies' annuals, to support her impoverished father, and stolidly devoted son. She was also, controversially, the keeper of Shelley's flame, while her own identity passed from "the author of Frankenstein" to Mrs Shelley. Seymour's extensive reading, in unpublished journals and correspondence, assists her in capturing the grinding minutiae of Mary's melancholic life, a seemingly interminable cycle of birth and death for her children, accompanied by a debilitating guilt that her mother had died shortly after her own birth. [+]Neither the feminist icon nor the sullen wife, Mary emerges as a talented, burdened soul who refused to burn up in her stellar trajectory, but instead found an admirable resilience amid tragedy and decadence. Seymour's occasionally uneven contribution, the first major study of her life (and published redemptively by John Murray, who turned down Frankenstein), quietly dampens the Romantic myth and instead presents a hard-working, troubled artisan more touched than fired by genius. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 1996-01-31
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £13.95
Price: £5.81
Review An Olaf Stapledon Reader / Syracuse University Press:
Creator: Euan Cameron
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-01-26
Dewey code: 809
Price: £12.99
Review Marcel Proust: A Life / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: W. H. Auden
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2006-10-10
Dewey code: 341.23092
RRP: £7.10
Price: £3.31
Review Markings (Vintage Spiritual Classics) / Vintage Books USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-09-05
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review Fathers and Sons / Headline Review:
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