Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 811.6
RRP: £5.37
Price: £1.95
Review I Don't Want to Be Crazy / Push:
Publication date: 2008-04-14
Dewey code: 811.4
RRP: £25.95
Price: £3.95
Review Summer of Hummingbirds / Avery Pub.,U.S.:
Authors
- Margaret Smith
- Christine Alexander
Publication date: 2006-03-09
Dewey code: 823.809
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.22
Review The Oxford Companion to the Brontes (Oxford Companions) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2000-06-15
Dewey code: 821.7
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.33
Review Itching After Rhyme: A Life of John Clare / Parapress:
Publication date: 2005-06-05
RRP: £1.50
Price: £27.99
Review Summer in Algiers (Pocket Penguins 70's) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1996-05-01
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £7.20
Review Conversations with Anne Rice / Ballantine Books Inc.:
Publication date: 2004-10-07
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.56
Review Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare / Jonathan Cape Ltd:Why should we read Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World? There have been innumerable biographies of William Shakespeare, but the greatest of all writers remains the great unknowable. We know about the petty business dealings, the death of his son, his career as a man of the theatre, and (of course) the seemingly contemptuous bequeath to Anne Hathaway of his `second best bed'. But any biographer is left scratching for much more than that-apart, of course, from adducing what can be read of the man's characters from his work (an enterprise fraught with danger). Shakespeare is not Hamlet, Lear or Benedict-though, of course, he is also, in a real sense, all three. What makes Greenblatt's account the most valuable in many years (literally so, since famously massive advances were paid for it) is the synthesis of incisive scholarship, immense enthusiasm for the subject and an unparalleled ability to conjure up the Elizabethan world with colour and veracity. If the author's conclusion's about the genius at the centre of his narrative are open to question, Will in the World is none the worse for that-Greenblatt enjoys provoking the reader, and the result is an energetic conjuring of a brilliant man and those around him (Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson are evoked with enviable skill, as are such figures as the prototype for Falstaff, Robert Green). With something of the vigour of the Bard's writing, Greenblatt takes us through the bawdy, teeming Bankside district (centuries before it became a tourist destination), and the Machiavellian, dangerous world of the court-in fact, all the splendour and misery of the Elizabethan age-and at the centre of it all, its greatest artist. The Will we meet here may owe much to Greenblatt's very personal interpretation, but the portrait is fascinating. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 1991-09-02
Dewey code: 821
Price: £25.00
Review Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and His Poetry / OUP Australia and New Zealand:
Publication date: 2002-12
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £9.95
Price: £22.73
Review John Banville: Exploring Fictions (Contemporary Irish Writers and Filmmakers) / The Liffey Press:
Edition: n.e.
Publication date: 1972-09-28
Dewey code: 822.33
RRP: £1.50
Price: £12.32
Review Shakespeare / Penguin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1989-07-01
Price: £4.50
Review The Life of Ian Fleming (Coronet Books) / Coronet Books:
Publication date: 1996-01
Dewey code: 828.91409
RRP: £17.99
Price: £18.55
Review The Anti-egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters / Oxford University Press Inc, USA:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1987-06-01
Price: £12.95
Review Unquiet Soul: Biography of Charlotte Bronte / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-09-29
Dewey code: 781.66092
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.33
Review The Legend Of Wild Man Fischer / J. R. Williams:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1994-04-13
Dewey code: 940.48173
RRP: £8.95
Price: £5.61
Review The Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions) (The Cummings Typescript Editions) / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 1993-10-14
RRP: £16.99
Price: £16.99
Review About Time Too: 1940-78 / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-03-04
Price: £7.99
Review The Poetry of Edward Thomas / The Hogarth Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-01-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £12.54
Review This is Not My Nose: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-03-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Woman of Substance: The Life and Work of Barbara Taylor Bradford / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-01-05
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £55.00
Price: £52.00
Review The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) / WileyBlackwell:
| Browse Novelists, Poets & Playwrights:
Models & Brands:
I Don't Want to Be Crazy, Summer of Hummingbirds, The Oxford Companion to the Brontes (Oxford Companions), Itching After Rhyme: A Life of John Clare, Summer in Algiers (Pocket Penguins 70's), Conversations with Anne Rice, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and His Poetry, John Banville: Exploring Fictions (Contemporary Irish Writers and Filmmakers), Shakespeare, The Life of Ian Fleming (Coronet Books), The Anti-egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters, Unquiet Soul: Biography of Charlotte Bronte, The Legend Of Wild Man Fischer, The Enormous Room (The Cummings Typescript Editions) (The Cummings Typescript Editions), About Time Too: 1940-78, The Poetry of Edward Thomas, This is Not My Nose: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery, The Woman of Substance: The Life and Work of Barbara Taylor Bradford, The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) |
