Literary Figures

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843237099Author T. Robin ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press

A biography of John Morris-Jones (1864-1929), Welsh grammarian, academic and poet. This book offers a critical analysis of his contribution, as well as a portrait of him as a family man, based on a fascinating series of personal letters to his wife and...

The big Irishman with the golden tongue has posthumously proved that the world is not black and white. His wit and his paradoxes are understood as profound and moral; his best plays are recognised as gems of English comedy.Book InformationISBN...

'Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters - four, five, six, eight in number - and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and...

Venice can be a dangerous place for a man's emotions--particularly at Christmas, particularly if he's the grief-stricken art historian John Ruskin. In 1876, a year after the death of his clandestine love, Rose La Touche, Ruskin arrived in the city of...

`Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelganger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671228118Author Gerald ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 638Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1107g

Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captures Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. It was Dora Diamant, an independent spirit who fled her Polish Hasidic family to pursue her Zionist dreams, who persuaded Kafka to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906229467Author Emily WollastonPage Count 96Imprint Green Umbrella PublishingPublisher G2 Entertainment LtdWeight(grams) 314g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886293406Author Richard LemmFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,Canada

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977245601Author Christopher ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977246967Author Sue HasselFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860519249Format HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 476g

Remarkably, there has been only one biography of Ford Madox Brown in the past century and none at all of the four women in his life, his two wives, Elisabeth Bromley and Emma Hill, and his secret passions, the artist Marie Spartali and the author...

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews...

Joe Gould was a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard. Instead of becoming a surgeon and civic leader, he moved to New York City, and spent the next 40 years living on the streets of Greenwich Village as a kind...

Born in Ireland in 1667, Jonathan Swift defiantly clung to his Englishness. He refused to relinquish this attachment even as corruption and injustice gradually led him to turn against the English government. In a long life, Swift proved a reluctant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782877060509Author PagnolFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Editions FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 113g

A.N. Wilson had John Bayley as his tutor at Oxford, which is where he met Iris Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both throughout her life and it was at Iris's pleading in 1988 that he agreed to write her biography. Bound to be controversial,...

Jack Rosenthal had always resisted writing an autobiography, until he hit on an original way of writing it that excited him: it would be as a screenplay, with himself as the central character, the storyline that of his own life, the supporting cast drawn...

Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence's friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over "Lady Chatterley's Lover" still raging, the abuse heaped on him prompted her into writing this warm and...

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605981321Author Associate Professor of English Robert MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 640g

Shadowlands tells the unique story of his tragic love. In Joy Davidman he truly found love and was drawn out of his shell. But only briefly, as she died months after they married. Brian Sibley skilfully looks at Lewis's childhood, his literary legacy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780063092792Author Ann PatchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness, depicted in films like The Hours. Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374603274Author Alexis Pauline GumbsFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

More than any other poet, Wordworth was his own biographer, and told his story through his verse. This work on the poet's entire life and times, first published in 1980, remains the only full-length popular biography. It draws upon the letters and...

Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,...

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in...

Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky...

Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in...

Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995. One of Nigeria's best-loved writers and critics of military rule, he was a mover in bringing the human rights abuses of Shell Oil and the Nigerian military to the world's attention. This work tells of Ken Wiwa's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410212412Author Sidney ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410211958Author Francois Marie Arouet VoltaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410209894Author Maxim GorkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416550822Author Donald SturrockFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 934g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410107893Author Mamie DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 191g

Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life...