Publication date: 2006-04-10
Dewey code: 828.91409
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.80
Review George Mackay Brown: The Life / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Paul Schlicke
Publication date: 1999-06-01
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £40.00
Price: £101.72
Review The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens (Oxford Readers) / Oxford University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-06-23
Dewey code: 821.914
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.32
Review Drums of Morning: Growing Up in the Thirties / Robson Books Ltd:
Authors
- Gillian Hodson
- Michael Darlow
Publication date: 1999-12-01
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £25.00
Price: £14.98
Review Terence Rattigan / Quartet Books:
Creator: Cid Corman
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-07-08
Dewey code: 895.6132
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.91
Review Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal (Companions for the Journey) / White Pine Press:
Publication date: 1991-10-01
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £17.95
Price: £18.67
Review Southern Daughter: Life of Margaret Mitchell / Oxford University Press Inc, USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-11-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £0.60
Price: £0.01
Review A Season in Hell (Penguin Classics 60s) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-11-23
Dewey code: 823.7
RRP: £18.99
Price: £23.51
Review Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1992-11-19
Price: £14.99
Review William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 1996-02
Dewey code: 811.52
Price: £16.06
Review Auden / Pantheon Books:
Creator: Robert Crossley
Publication date: 1996-01-31
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £14.50
Price: £9.43
Review An Olaf Stapledon Reader / Syracuse University Press:
Creator: P. McCarthy
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-09-26
Price: £5.99
Review Childhood Years: A Memoir (Flamingo) / Flamingo:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1993-01-11
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £28.95
Price: £19.10
Review Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton Paperbacks) / Princeton University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-27
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.00
Review New Fame New Love: John Betjeman / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2003-08-28
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £18.00
Price: £2.15
Review Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 813.6
Price: £13.36
Review A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father / St. Martin's Press:
Publication date: 2008-04-17
Dewey code: 811.4
RRP: £13.89
Price: £8.92
Review A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo / Penguin Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-19
Dewey code: 741.56973
RRP: £8.00
Price: £4.31
Review Modern Masters: Michael Golden v. 12 (Modern Masters (TwoMorrows Publishing)) / TwoMorrows Publishing:
Publication date: 1988-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: £20.00
Review Nora: Biography of Nora Joyce / Hamish Hamilton Ltd:
Creator: Ann Goldstein
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-02
Dewey code: 891.713
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review Pushkin's Button / Fourth Estate:In telling the story of the duel that killed Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, Serena Vitale is trying to do something more exciting than simply put together a biographical chronology of the man's life. In place of the usual dull plod through life and works, Vitale focuses on the extraordinary events of the end of Pushkin's life, and works backwards and sideways, as it were, to provide a quirkily rich portrait of the great man. Partly she is able to pull this off because she writes like a novelist instead of an ordinary biographer; partly it is the connections Vitale makes, connections worthy of the lively mind of Pushkin himself. Take her title: an anecdote about Pushkin's clothing noted by a contemporary ("Pushkin's bekesh was missing a button at the back, at waist height. clearly they were not looking after him") leads Vitale not into obvious contemplation of the adequacy of the many servants who attended the poet, but rather into the way the missing button "resembles the stress accent that suddenly breaks loose from the iamb and vanishes into the void" in a typical Pushkinian line of verse. Pushkin's Button is bursting at the seams with surprising and illuminating perspectives such as this. -Adam Roberts.
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