Review, buy Novelists, Poets & Playwrights: Robert Graves: Life on the Edge, Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings, Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton Paperbacks), On the Nature of Poetry: An Appraisal and Investigation of the Art Which for 4000 Years Has Distilled the Spoken Thoughts of Mankind, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (Literary Conversations (Paperback)), Graham Greene: Friend and Brother, With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, My First Seven Years (plus a few more), Chaucer (Brief Lives), Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm, T.S. Eliot: A Life, Poet and Painter, Flaws in the Glass, The Case of Anna Kavan, Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography, By the Dawn's Early Light, A Life of John Milton (Pimlico)

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Review Scribner / Robert Graves: Life on the Edge

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge (Scribner)

Authors

Miranda Seymour

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-08-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £34.09

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Review OUP Oxford / Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings (OUP Oxford)

Authors

Malcolm Andrews

Publication date: 2007-11-29
Dewey code: 823.8
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Price: £10.74

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Review Gotham Books / Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare

Shakespeare by Another Name: The Life of Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare (Gotham Books)

Authors

Mark Anderson

Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2006-09-02
Dewey code: 822.33
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £8.75

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Review Granta Books / Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey (Granta Books)

Authors

Janet Malcolm

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-01-15
Dewey code: 809
RRP: ~~£8.99~~
Price: £4.38

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Review Hodder & Stoughton Ltd / Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams

Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd)

Authors

M.J. Simpson

Publication date: 2003-03-03
RRP: ~~£18.99~~
Price: £4.95

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The untimely death of Douglas Adams was a sharp reminder of what a protean talent (and remarkable character) the man was. As MJ Simpson's Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams reminds us, when The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy appeared as a radio series, few could guess that its gifted author would, in the space of several books (and adaptations in various other media), single-handedly inaugurate a whole new genre: the sardonically funny, outrageous science fiction parody that combined the sharp-edged sensibility of Monty Python and a marvellously jaded view of British life (taking in some hilarious philosophical asides along the way). Many writers continue to be influenced by Adams, and a new film of Hitchhiker's Guide has been much discussed. So the time is right for this exhaustive and sympathetic biography. Although several such books are in the pipeline, genre specialist MJ Simpson (a cofounder of the glossy SF magazine SFX) is the perfect chronicler of a strange and eventful life. Adams' quirky personality comes brilliantly to life (thanks to Simpson's impressive research, which he began before Adams' death). We are taken back to his auspicious beginnings as a comic talent in the Cambridge Footlights and through his phenomenal later success (not ignoring the man's pathological inability to meet a deadline). Simpson's writing style is never academic, and sounds the same wry and witty note as his subject effortlessly found. By interviewing a host of friends and associates (and consulting exclusive archives), Simpson paints a picture of this complex and fascinating man that is unlikely to be beaten for quite some time. -Barry Forshaw.

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