Publication date: 2006-01-26
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.19
Review Madame De Stael / Robinson Publishing:
Creator: Kevin McCabe
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-07
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £23.00
Price: £24.99
Review Lucy Maud Montgomery Album / Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd:
Publication date: 1997-10-24
Price: £20.00
Review Victor Hugo / Picador:Like Proust, his fellow countryman, Victor Hugo is a writer whose works are discussed more often than they are actually read. Perhaps we had Les Misérables force-fed to us in school, or saw one of the many film versions of his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but of his many other works of prose, poetry and drama, most modern readers are ignorant-as they are of the details of Hugo's life. In Victor Hugo, Graham Robb brings a fresh eye to an old subject with laudable results. During his lifetime, Hugo himself was the author of most of the legend that has grown up around him, from his pastoral conception on a mountainside to his heroic republican opposition to Napoleon. Robb turns these myths inside out as he searches for the underlying compulsions that led Hugo to obsessively recreate his own history. Robb thoroughly and compassionately presents the tangled, sometimes sordid, often ridiculous events of Hugo's life, at the same time commenting knowledgeably on his work. Victor Hugo is a terrific biography of a fascinating man, a great motivator for readers to start agitating for more translations of Hugo's work.
Publication date: 2002-01-02
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.99
Review The World of Elizabeth Goudge / Periwinkle Publications:
Publication date: 1992-03-26
Price: £10.99
Review Maus: And Here My Troubles Began Pt. 2: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began Pt. 2 (Penguin Graphic Fiction) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-08-01
Dewey code: 230.092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.07
Review C.S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion): A Guide to His Theology / WileyBlackwell:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-20
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.86
Review Lorca: A Dream of Life / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:"Today's Spain is called Federico. " These words, from right-wing Spanish premier Jose Maria Aznar in 1998 upon the centenary of his birth, highlight the degree to which Federico Garcia Lorca has become a symbol for post-Franco Spain. His untimely death in 1936 at the hands of the insurgent Granada authorities ensured his immortality as only early death can and gave his image as a metaphor for creative vibrancy brutally cut down. Lorca's appeal in his lifetime had much to do with his personality. Impulsive and swaggeringly confident, he built a reputation based on recitals of his poems, many of which he never wrote down. He became, in Luis Bunuel's words, "his own living masterpiece". He played the piano magnificently, his surrealist drawings could stand comparison with those of Miro or Dali, and his mind was constantly conceiving projects, of which he would realise "four at the most". This maelstrom yielded lyrical poetry, difficult experimental drama and the more naturalistic rural trilogy for which he is most famous: Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernardo Alba. His work contemplated nature, fertility and almost always death; today he is the most produced Spanish dramatist in the English-speaking world. Leslie Stainton's is a sensitive appraisal and though the prose may not share the subject's joie de vivre, in the context that may not be a bad thing. [+]Lorca emerges as a great artist with even greater potential, who sparkled with the promise of art, and for whom Spain is right to be still grieving. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2008-02-13
Dewey code: 741.5092
RRP: £32.54
Price: £22.03
Review Alex Raymond: His Life and Art / Alex Raymond:
Creator: H.F. Broch De Rothermann
Publication date: 2008-11-25
Dewey code: 833.912
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.26
Review The Snows of Yesteryear (New York Review Books Classics) (New York Review Books Classics) / The New York Review of Books, Inc:
Publication date: 2002-01-10
Dewey code: 070.51092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.01
Review Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood / Granta Books:
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2001-08-23
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.50
Review Alison Uttley / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-06-03
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £8.00
Price: £8.00
Review A Fan's Notes / Yellow Jersey Press:Frederick Exley recounts his life as the son of a hero-worshipped high school athlete who is doomed to be a spectator not only of sports, but of life. From irresponsible drifter, to dreamer of impossible dreams, to drunkard, to frequent patient at an asylum, Exley carried baggage from his childhood through much of his adult life, never feeling he could escape the dark cloud of expectation that hung over him. When Frank Gifford, former New York Giants backfield star, is injured, Exley is jolted into painful realisations about his life and a confession.
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1990-05-21
Dewey code: 821.3
Price: £9.99
Review John Donne: Life, Mind and Art / Faber and Faber:
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-18
Dewey code: 812.52
RRP: £18.00
Price: £3.59
Review Arthur Miller: His Life and Work / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 2000-03-06
Price: £10.00
Review The Rose That Grew from Concrete / Quartet Books:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2002-11-07
Dewey code: 920
Price: £9.99
Review Dorothy L.Sayers: Her Life and Soul / Sceptre:
Creator: Julian Preece
Publication date: 2002-02-21
Dewey code: 833.912
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.13
Review The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Cambridge Companions to Literature) / Cambridge University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-04-01
Dewey code: 848.91207
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.28
Review Miserable Miracle (New York Review Books Classics) / New York Review Books:
Publication date: 2008-11-27
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £18.95
Price: £7.98
Review Ticks and Crosses: Personal Terms No. 4 (Personal Terms 4): 4 (Personal Terms 4) / Carcanet Press Ltd:
Creator: Donald E. Meek
Publication date: 2003-04-14
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.00
Review Caran An-t-saoghail (The Wiles of the World): An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Gaelic Verse / Birlinn Ltd:
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