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Diderot - A Critical Biography - Bok av P.N. Furbank - Häftad

Author of that inexhaustibly strange masterpiece Rameau's Nephew, Denis Diderot (1713-84) was also a dramatist, a speculative philosopher, the founder of modern art criticism and a tireless correspondent;

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Angus Wilson - A Biography - Bok av Margaret Drabble - Häftad

Its virtues - a bright, crowded canvas, warmth, a witty, polished style - are those of Wilson's novels .

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Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle - A Biography - Bok av Jonathan (Author) Gathorne-Hardy - Häftad

Born in 1894 to a well-off military family, Gerard Brenan was expected to follow the family tradition. But at Radley school he discovered a love of books and an urge to break the mould, which led him to abscond to Europe for six months.

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E. M. Forster - A Life - Bok av P.N. Furbank - Häftad

Cambridge began the emancipation - intellectual, artistic, social, and sexual - which Forster's experiences abroad, his growing literary reputation, his deep friendships, and his love affairs were to extend. In his closing years Forster invited Furbank, a close friend, to write his biography.

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Anton Chekhov - A Life - Bok av Donald Rayfield - Häftad

Anton Chekhov's life was short, he was only forty-four when he died, and dogged with ill-health but his plays and short stories assure him of his place in the literary pantheon. Drawing on an array of material, this biography captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov.

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The Haunted Study - A Social History of the English Novel, 1875-1914 - Bok av P. J. Keating - Häftad

The Haunted Study, a rare example of a work of literary history that is genuinely interdisciplinary, explores how the leading novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods came to develop so many of the attitudes that are now generally accepted as characteristically modern.

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Richard Strauss - A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (Volume III) - Bok av Norman Del Mar - Häftad

Presents the life and works of Richard Strauss. This book spans from 1934 to Strauss' death in 1949, taking in the last five operas, the late instrumental music, a variety of songs from early youth to the \Vier letzte Lieder\, and concluding with eight appendixes of works, dates and opus numbers, and a meticulous index.

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Pursued by Furies - A Life of Malcolm Lowry - Bok av Gordon Bowker - Häftad

Malcolm Lowry was the troubled author of Under the Volcano (1947), a brilliant novel about the last day of an alcoholic former British consul on the Mexican Day of the Dead, the manuscript of which Lowry rescued from the flames when his fisherman's shack burned down in 1944.

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Richard Strauss - A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (Volume II) - Bok av Norman Del Mar - Häftad

A work on Richard Strauss that spans the years 1912 to 1933 (the premiere of Arabella), taking in the Ariadne versions, Die Frau ohne Schatten, the ballets and much incidental music.

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Behold, This Dreamer! - Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and

Offers an introduction which leads to a survey - a panorama - of a wide theme.

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Christina Rossetti - A Literary Biography - Bok av Jan Marsh - Häftad

'Jan Marsh's book is the best researched and fullest biography of Rossetti we have yet had.' Fiona MacCarthy, New York Review of Books'Although never formally part of the Pre-Raphaelite poetic school, which included her brother Gabriel, William Morris, and Algernon Swinburne, Christina Rossetti has always been linked to it.

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Gerald Finzi - An English Composer - Bok av Stephen Banfield - Häftad

The music of Gerald Finzi, whose popularity has enjoyed a great resurgence, is rooted in the tradition of Elgar, Parry, Vaughan Williams and those composers for whom song writing was a principal means of expression. This biography reveals Finzi as a more complex and engaged figure than he is often given credit for.

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Edward VII - Prince and King - Bok av Giles St Aubyn - Häftad

'An exceptional study, which fascinates, entertain, and illuminates.' The New YorkerThrough half a century of public service King Edward had the advantage of a private secretary whose tact, judgement, loyalty and affection never failed him.

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Autobiography - Bok av John Cowper Powys - Häftad

I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.' One is tempted to say only John Cowper Powys could have written that, and, beyond doubt, only John Cowper Powys could have written the idiosyncratic and spellbinding work we have here.

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The Cut of Women's Clothes - Bok av Norah Waugh - Inbunden

This is a vivid record, in words, illustrations and working diagrams, of a section of women's clothing design from 1600 to 1930. The author was in charge of costume at the Theatre Studio run by Michel Saint-Denis in the 1930s.

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The Great Melody - A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke - Bok av Conor Cruise O'Brien - Häftad

Conor Cruise O'Brien's majestic meditation on the life and writings of Burke was originally published in 1992. 'O'Brien [had] been brooding on Edmund Burke for decades. \It\, he decided, was the abuse of power.' Paul Johnson, Independent on Sunday 'The best book about Edmund Burke ever written .

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Richard Strauss - A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (Volume I) - Bok av Norman Del Mar - Häftad

Deals with the years from Richard Strauss' birth (1864) to Der Rosenkavalier (1912), discussing the early orchestral and chamber music, the tone poems and the operas Guntram, Feuersnot, Salome and Elektra.

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Britain and Her Army - A Military, Political and Social History of the British Army, 1509-1970 - Bok av Correlli Barnett - Häftad

First published in 1970, Britain and Her Army was Correlli Barnett's sixth published book and earned him the Royal Society of Literature's W.H.

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Love - Bok av Walter de la Mare - Häftad

Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War.

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Emily Tennyson - The Poet's Wife - Bok av Ann Thwaite - Häftad

It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. This biography discusses the poet's relationship with his wife.

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Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934?1935, The - Bok av T. S. Eliot - Inbunden

In addition, Eliot works hard for the Christian Church he has espoused in recent years, serving on committees for the Church Union and the Church Literature Association, and creating at Faber & Faber a book list that embraces works on church history, theology and liturgy.

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Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Volume 1 - Bok av Robert Craft - Häftad

Presents a selection of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky. This book provides information about Stravinsky's relationships with other musicians, and about his methods of composition. Based on letters to Stravinsky from his first wife Catherine, it helps in an understanding of the composer's personal and family life.

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Jean Rhys - Life and Work - Bok av Carole (Freelance) Angier - Häftad

Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a long life of great difficulty. So inept was she in its management that her authority as the writer of five beautifully shaped and controlled novels appears mysterious: how could someone so bad at living be so good at writing about it? This title answers this question.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931 - Bok av John Haffenden - Inbunden

Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force.

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Diderot - A Critical Biography - Bok av P.N. Furbank - Häftad

Angus Wilson - A Biography - Bok av Margaret Drabble - Häftad

Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle - A Biography - Bok av Jonathan (Author) Gathorne-Hardy - Häftad

E. M. Forster - A Life - Bok av P.N. Furbank - Häftad

Anton Chekhov - A Life - Bok av Donald Rayfield - Häftad

The Haunted Study - A Social History of the English Novel, 1875-1914 - Bok av P. J. Keating - Häftad

Richard Strauss - A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (Volume III) - Bok av Norman Del Mar - Häftad

Pursued by Furies - A Life of Malcolm Lowry - Bok av Gordon Bowker - Häftad

Richard Strauss - A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (Volume II) - Bok av Norman Del Mar - Häftad

Behold, This Dreamer! - Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and

Christina Rossetti - A Literary Biography - Bok av Jan Marsh - Häftad

Gerald Finzi - An English Composer - Bok av Stephen Banfield - Häftad

Edward VII - Prince and King - Bok av Giles St Aubyn - Häftad

Autobiography - Bok av John Cowper Powys - Häftad

The Cut of Women's Clothes - Bok av Norah Waugh - Inbunden

The Great Melody - A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke - Bok av Conor Cruise O'Brien - Häftad

Richard Strauss - A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works (Volume I) - Bok av Norman Del Mar - Häftad

Britain and Her Army - A Military, Political and Social History of the British Army, 1509-1970 - Bok av Correlli Barnett - Häftad

Love - Bok av Walter de la Mare - Häftad

Emily Tennyson - The Poet's Wife - Bok av Ann Thwaite - Häftad

Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934?1935, The - Bok av T. S. Eliot - Inbunden

Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Volume 1 - Bok av Robert Craft - Häftad

Jean Rhys - Life and Work - Bok av Carole (Freelance) Angier - Häftad

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931 - Bok av John Haffenden - Inbunden