Publication date: 2005-05-18
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £16.99
Price: £16.14
Review One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell / Lawrence & Wishart Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: £16.14
Review Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography / Random House Inc (T):
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-09-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review My Ear at His Heart / Faber and Faber:
Publication date: 2005-10-21
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.00
Review Siegfried Sassoon / Picador:
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Publication date: 2002-01-23
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £19.95
Price: £13.16
Review Burroughs Live (Double Agents) / Semiotext[e]:
Publication date: 2004-10-28
Dewey code: 833.912
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.32
Review Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / OUP Oxford:
Creator: Andrew Brown
Edition: Tra
Publication date: 2006-02-24
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.91
Review Claudine's House (Modern Voices) / Hesperus Press Ltd:
Creator: Earl G. Ingersoll
Publication date: 2008-11
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.45
Review Conversations with Anthony Burgess (Literary Conversations (Paperback)) / University Press of Mississippi:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-21
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £12.49
Price: £8.16
Review Marx's "Das Kapital": A Biography (Books That Changed the World) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Edition: Univ of Texas P
Publication date: 1997-06-01
Dewey code: 822.914
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.72
Review Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller / University of Texas Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1975-01-30
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £4.99
Price: £12.95
Review The Life of Charlotte Bronte (English Library) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: M. Sandbach
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1979-01-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £105.84
Review Inferno (Classics) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Authors
- Ol'ga Leonardovna Knipper
- A.P. Chekhov
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-02-05
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.05
Review Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper / Methuen:
Authors
- Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Publication date: 1967-10-01
Dewey code: 841.8
RRP: £11.00
Price: £9.90
Review Rimbaud : Complete Works, Selected Letters (in French and English) / University of Chicago Press:
Creator: Wendy Cope
Publication date: 2002-10-18
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.99
Review Verse and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing) / SPCK Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 848.91209
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.95
Review Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics) / New York Review Books:
Publication date: 2008-09-02
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £15.63
Price: £9.80
Review Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry / Houghton Mifflin Company:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-11-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: £0.60
Review A Season in Hell (Penguin Classics 60s) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-25
RRP: £20.00
Price: £1.95
Review Slipstream: A Memoir / Macmillan:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-05-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.00
Review George's Ghosts: A New Life of W.B. Yeats / Picador:Unusually for a biography, George's Ghosts begins more than halfway through the subject's life, in 1917 with the poet at 51. It is a bold strategy, but it works. There are so many perfectly good biographies of the poet that take the conventional line (Roy Foster's superb The Apprentice Mage covers the early years brilliantly), and Maddox is interested in something particular, Yeats's relationship with "George", Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom Yeats married late in life and who revolutionised his poetry. Yeats was in love with another woman, Maud Gonne (reputedly "the most beautiful woman in Ireland", although its hard to see why judging by the photos included in this volume), and George developed what Maddox considers "one of the most ingenious strategies ever tried to take a husband's mind off another woman. " Capitalising on Yeats's fascination with the occult, she revealed herself to be a spirit medium, adept at "automatic writing". Yeats studied the garbled messages from these '"Communicators" and forged the results into his extraordinarily powerful late poetry. As Maddox makes plain, George used her husband's belief in her spiritual talents to control him, "cutting Yeats off from his other occult associates and making her wholly dependent on her. " It is a marvellously complex story, insightfully and subtly written and a fascinating insight into the imaginative life of a great poet. Adam Roberts.
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One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell, Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography, My Ear at His Heart, Siegfried Sassoon, Burroughs Live (Double Agents), Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Claudine's House (Modern Voices), Conversations with Anthony Burgess (Literary Conversations (Paperback)), Marx's "Das Kapital": A Biography (Books That Changed the World), Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (English Library), Inferno (Classics), Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, Rimbaud : Complete Works, Selected Letters (in French and English), Verse and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing), Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics), Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry, A Season in Hell (Penguin Classics 60s), Slipstream: A Memoir, George's Ghosts: A New Life of W.B. Yeats |
