Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1994-10-13
Dewey code: 973
Price: £19.43
Review Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Clarendon Paperbacks) / Clarendon Press:
Publication date: 2000-04-04
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £10.00
Price: £5.50
Review Reading and Writing: A Personal Account / The New York Review of Books, Inc:
Creator: Margaret Scott
Publication date: 1984-09-13
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £66.00
Price: £58.76
Review The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917 v. 1 (Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 1999-06-24
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £25.00
Price: £8.95
Review The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Creator: John Phillips
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1990-04-05
Price: £6.99
Review Violet to Vita: Letters of Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West / Mandarin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-04-16
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.80
Review The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Virago classic non-fiction) / Virago Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1993-02-28
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £33.95
Price: £22.11
Review Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Engagement / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.:
Creator: Author
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 814.54
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.92
Review Me Talk Pretty One Day / Little, Brown & Company:David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of Santaland Diaries a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's department store. Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves", he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God", says one. "Then he be die one day on two. morsels of. [+]lumber", says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox man whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mother and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests". Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with "s" sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong-"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match". As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode. It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. -Tim Appelo.
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.98
Review Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant (Broadview Literary Texts) / Broadview Press Ltd ,Canada:
Creator: Albert J. DeFazio
Publication date: 2005-11
Dewey code: 813.52
RRP: £29.95
Price: £16.61
Review Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner / University of Missouri Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1994-02-24
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £18.00
Price: £10.63
Review Cicero: A Portrait (Bristol Classical Paperbacks.) / Bristol Classical Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1989-10-26
Price: £7.99
Review The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas (Twentieth Century Classics) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1993-10-14
Dewey code: 821.6
Price: £8.99
Review Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns / Headline Book Publishing:
Publication date: 2005-04-14
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.44
Review Magical Thinking: True Stories / Atlantic Books:
Creator: Harry Horse
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-12-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.99
Review Chewing the Cud / Puffin Books:
Publication date: 1997-05-29
Dewey code: 828.91409
Price: £8.99
Review The Voice That Thunders / The Harvill Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-10-29
Price: £7.99
Review In Search of Conrad / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 843.912
RRP: £11.95
Price: £3.00
Review The Astonished Man (Peter Owen Modern Classics) / Peter Owen Ltd:
Edition: New ed of Abridged ed of
Publication date: 1998-07-09
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £15.00
Price: £6.12
Review Bernard Shaw: A Biography / Vintage:Michael Holroyd is the distinguished British biographer of writer Lytton Strachey (whose life formed the basis of the film Carrington) as well as the painter Augustus John. But his voluminous biography of writer George Bernard Shaw-the author of Pygmalion (made into the musical My Fair Lady)-originally published in four volumes, is probably his masterwork. This newly abridged one-volume edition has the virtue of cutting the documentation-which will be missed only by other scholars on Shaw-and is aimed squarely at the general reader, who will find here an entertaining survey with a wide base of interest. Unlike other recent books on Shaw that focus on a single aspect such as sexuality or politics, Holroyd's approach is general and quite successful. One feels that the biographer has grasped what was important to Shaw at each crucial moment of his life. Thus the biography becomes a kind of companion to the life, discreetly pointing out features of interest, but never overly imposing Holroyd's own personality, though there are some wry observations-such as those about Shaw's estate in recent years-that indicate Holroyd's dry wit. Though not short at 704 pages, there are no longueurs, and this book is a fine example of biography at its best, a must for literature collections. -Benjamin Ivry.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-12-02
Price: £9.99
Review Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years v. 1 / Vintage:
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