Review, buy Novelists, Poets & Playwrights: A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb, Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich, Autobiography of Lorenzo de'Medici the Magnificent: A Commentary On My Sonnets (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies S.), Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents, Little Wilson and Big God (Penguin non-fiction), SchoolHouse in the Wind (Cornish Library), Ways of Escape, The Marquis de Sade: A New Biography, Robert Browning: A Life After Death, The Lives of Elsa Triolet, As Once in May: The Early Autobiography of Antonia White and Other Writings, Fragments of Autobiography, Siegfried Sassoon: Making of a War Poet v. 1, Selected Letters, Chasing Down the Dawn: Life Stories, William Shakespeare (Pocket Essentials), A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott's Place in American Culture, Running in the Family (Vintage International), Charlotte Bronte, You Remind Me of You (Push Poetry)

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Review Viking / A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb

A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb (Viking)

Authors

Sarah Burton

Publication date: 2003-08-28
Dewey code: 920
Price: £16.99

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Review OUP USA / Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich

Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich (OUP USA)

Authors

Gordon A. Craig

Publication date: 1999-11-04
Dewey code: 833.8
RRP: ~~£35.99~~
Price: £29.51

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Autobiography of Lorenzo de'Medici the Magnificent: A Commentary On My Sonnets (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies S.) (Arizona State University,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)

Authors

Lorenzo De'Medici

Creator: James Wyatt Cook
Publication date: 1995-12
Dewey code: 851.2
RRP: ~~£28.00~~
Price: £29.99

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Review Penguin Books Ltd / Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents (Penguin Books Ltd)

Authors

Paul Theroux

Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-08-26
Price: £7.99

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Paul Theroux first met V. S. Naipaul, or Vidia to his friends, in Uganda in 1966. Theroux was an unknown writer, while the older Naipaul had already established a name for himself as the author of such classic novels as A House for Mr. Biswas. Their unlikely subsequent friendship stretched for more than 30 years and spanned five continents, as Theroux grew in literary stature, with novels such as The Mosquito Coast and travelogues including Riding the Iron Rooster, and Naipaul went on to secure, among other plaudits, the 1971 Booker Prize for his extraordinary collection In a Free State. But then, in 1997, their friendship ended. Snubbed by Naipaul following a chance meeting on a London street, Theroux immediately realised that "his rejection of me meant I was on my own. He had freed me, he had opened my eyes, he had given me a subject. " The result was Sir Vidia's Shadow, a humorous but often elegiac account of the cantankerous Naipaul, which often reads as much as an account of Theroux's own rise to artistic maturity as a literary memoir of Naipaul. [+]

Some of the finest sections of the book deal with Theroux's contrasting experiences to Africa compared with the patrician attitude of Naipaul, and his emergence as a literary figure in London-with the help of Naipaul. At times, Sir Vidia's Shadow offers hilarious insights into Naipaul's bizarre and often offensive musings on politics, race and sex, and his selfish and single-minded belief that writing is the only thing that really matters. This is a fascinating book, made all the more intriguing by the nagging feeling that a deeper level of recrimination lies behind Theroux's account than he actually concedes. If Naipaul's rejection of Theroux allows him to become just another "subject", then how much difference is there in the end between the two writers? In the end, is this really a book about killing the literary father? Only time, and perhaps Naipaul's response, will tell. -Jerry Brotton.

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