Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-01-19
Dewey code: 820
RRP: £23.00
Price: £21.85
Review The Birth of "Wuthering Heights": Emily Bronte at Work / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 2005-08-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.54
Review Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy - An Irish Writer in New York / Pimlico:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 823.914
Price: £9.82
Review Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions / Picador USA:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-11-15
Dewey code: 891.8517
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.47
Review My Century (New York Review Books Classics) / New York Review Books:
Publication date: 2003-07-24
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.63
Review The Wallace / Canongate Books:
Creator: Stanley Stewart
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 822.3
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.99
Review The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson (Cambridge Companions to Literature) / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 1992-10-31
Dewey code: 832.8
RRP: £29.95
Price: £23.95
Review Understanding Gerhart Hauptmann (Understanding Modern European & Latin American Literature) / University of South Carolina Press:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.86
Review Cyrano: The Life and Legend of Cyrano De Bergerac / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-02-28
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.98
Review Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman / Warne:
Edition: 1st Harvard University Press Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 1994-09-09
Dewey code: 811.4
RRP: £25.00
Price: £23.75
Review The Life of Emily Dickinson / Harvard University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1972-07
Dewey code: 921
Price: £3.95
Review A Mortal Flower (China : Autobiography, History, Book 2) / Triad Books:
Authors
- Heath Lees with extracts translated from the French by Rosemary Lloyd
Dewey code: 841.8
RRP: £55.00
Price: £52.25
Review Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language / Ashgate:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 1984-03-22
Dewey code: 928.2
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.83
Review James Joyce (Oxford Lives) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 1983-06-27
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £10.95
Review Constant Novelist: Study of Margaret Kennedy, 1896-1967 / William Heinemann Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-09-14
RRP: £9.95
Price: £6.79
Review H.G. Wells / Hg Wells:
Publication date: 1998-08-20
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.45
Review Jonathan Swift / Hutchinson:Jonathan Swift, satirical writer, clergyman, author of Gulliver's Travels, didn't like dirt or dirty people. His friend, Thomas Sheridan, described him as "one of the cleanliest men that ever lived. " His writing is full of scatological references and his verse reveals a disgust at the fact that women have bodily functions. It is this kind of visceral detail in which biographer Victoria Glendinning is interested. This is popular biography rather than an academic account of Swift's politics, writing and professional life. Taking a series of key characteristics/observations, the author builds chapters around them, drawing in the relevant material without adhering to strict chronology. The result is a "character portrait", which is a useful way of trying to get to grips with Swift, a man who evades easy analysis as his writing is so loaded with humour and political bias. Glendinning believes that you can't find Swift in his work so she seeks him out in private places; in letters to and from his young girlfriends, Stella and Vanessa, and in his relationships with powerful thinkers and writers of the time such as Alexander Pope. She finds a man full of contradictions-the sceptical clergyman, the Englishman in Ireland, the non-committal lover. Through suggestive detail and intelligent conjecture, Glendinning brings into focus England's most celebrated satirist. [+]-Hannah Griffiths.
Authors
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £35.00
Price: £32.31
Review Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951: The Real Life of Sebastian (Library of America (Hardcover)) / The Library of America:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-04-26
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.49
Review Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years - A Memoir, 1945-67 / Methuen Publishing Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-11-18
Dewey code: 823.920903
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.88
Review Contemporary British Novelists (Routledge Key Guides) / Routledge:
Publication date: 1981-01-05
RRP: £18.00
Price: £10.33
Review A Slender Tree: Life of Alice Meynell / Tabb House:
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