Literary Figures

Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743439688Author Colette RossantFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624053221Author Paul McCuskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz-the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980-offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385343527Author Pat ConroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 207mm *...

Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.Thomas De Quincey's friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods - including William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140232523Author Michael McClureFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226009056Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671741808Author Deirdre BairFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1063g

'It is impossible not to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace.' So said the blurbs of Wallace's own books.Indeed, he was a prolific author of over 170 books, translated into more than thirty languages. More films were made from his books than any other...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312539313Author Lisa RogakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

The Irish heritage of the Bronte family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very best to ensure that this was the case and partly because there was a strong understanding at the end of the nineteenth...

This authorized biography of the poet Kathleen Raine tells the story of how she developed from a small girl, who knew at the age of eight that she wanted only to write poetry, into a world-renowned poet and literary scholar. Philippa Bernard follows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780704374348Author Lesley BlanchFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Quartet BooksPublisher Quartet Books

Edwin Morgan is Britain's premier living poet. He has published many collections of poetry, criticism, essays and translations. Now in old age Morgan continues to produce and amaze. His "A Book of Lives" was awarded the Sundial Scottish Arts Council...

First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged...

First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978131Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 478gDimensions(mm)...

Leopold Tyrmand, a Polish Jew who survived World War II by working in Germany under a false identity, would go on to live and write under Poland's Communist regime for twenty years before emigrating to the West, where he continued to express his deeply...

Henry James's reputation as The Master is so familiar that it's hard to imagine he was ever someone on whom some things really were lost. This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols...

Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. And yet, an accurate picture of this multifaceted chameleon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260374Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

Michael Reynolds discovered the truth about Hemingway's activities during the war years, which included running a counterintelligence operation in Havana. The postwar period was the most productive of Hemingway's writing life, when he authored the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530181Author August KleinzahlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958640Author Matthew Levi StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 358g

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century. Yet his novels, and indeed his own extraordinary life story, have been virtually lost to the mists of time. Geoffrey Elliott here, for the first time, pieces together...

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and...

William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have surrounded the siblings since the 19th century, but Lucy Newlyn...

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Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements. These memoirs of the author's first twenty-four years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining...

Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in Madrid, where he met the poet Federico Garcia Lorca...

The winner of the Nobel Trize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet-forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in...

Author Christopher Hollis knew George Orwell personally during his schooldays at Eton, afterwards in Burma, and at the end of his life. His study of Orwell's books is therefore illuminated by some anecdotes of reminiscence. However, it is important to...

Most people know that Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was a towering figure of American literature, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner and author of novels including The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he...

Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and...

The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart's new book is its warmth. In the style of Montaigne, Hoggart looks back over his years and pinpoints those human qualities which have come to mean most to him and which he has appreciated in others. Part of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436361Author Nick HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm