Edition: 2
Publication date: 1998-05-14
Dewey code: 821.1
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.95
Review New Introduction to Chaucer (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library) / Longman:
Creator: J.S
Publication date: 2007-01-10
Dewey code: 200
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.38
Review The Spirit of St. Francis De Sales (Dodo Press) / Dodo Press:
Creator: Lois Ames
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £8.03
Price: £4.77
Review Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters / Mariner Books:
Creator: Harold Bloom
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2000-12-15
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £32.50
Price: £30.94
Review John Irving (Modern Critical Views) (Modern Critical Views) / Chelsea House Publishers:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-02-07
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.10
Review Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up / Virago Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-02-15
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.57
Review True Story, Swear to God Archives: v. 1 (True Story, Swear to God (Graphic Novels)): v. 1 (True Story: Swear to God) / Image Comics:
Publication date: 2005-09-15
Dewey code: 782.42092242
RRP: £17.99
Price: £15.07
Review Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers / The Boydell Press:
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.
Edition: first
Publication date: 2007-09-24
Dewey code: 821.914
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.48
Review The Pear Is Ripe: A Memoir / Liberties Press:
Edition: Revised Expanded Annotated Ill Ed
Publication date: 1991-04-01
Dewey code: 833.8
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.99
Review The Confessions of Wanda Von Sacher Masoch (Re/Search Classics) (Re/Search Classics) / V/Search Publications,U.S.:
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £18.95
Price: £32.68
Review From Winchester to This / Peter Owen Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £20.00
Price: £13.40
Review William Roscoe: Commerce and Culture / Liverpool University Press:
Publication date: 2007-10-11
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.96
Review Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys / Duckworth & Co:
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2000-05-01
Dewey code: 940.53180922
Price: £9.99
Review Maus II: A Survivor's Tale - And Here My Troubles Began: 002 (Maus) / Random House Inc:
Creator: Christopher Murray
Publication date: 2000-02-01
Dewey code: 822.914
Price: £9.99
Review Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999 / Faber and Faber:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.94
Review Antonin Artaud / Calder Publications Ltd:
Creator: Mark A. Wollaeger
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-05-15
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.83
Review James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Casebook (Casebooks in criticism) / OUP USA:
Publication date: 2000-03-06
Price: £10.00
Review The Rose That Grew from Concrete / Quartet Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-03-05
Price: £7.99
Review Learning Not to Be First: Life of Christina Rossetti (Oxford Lives) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 1988-02
Dewey code: 821.8
RRP: £27.95
Price: £32.95
Review Lady Tennyson's Journal / University of Virginia Press:
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