Biography: literary

Confessions of An English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Once upon a time, opium was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, and Read more...

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Great Expectations by Robert Gottlieb

Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created - from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield - was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). The author narrates Read more...

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Something Urgent I Have to Say to You by Herbert a. Leibowitz

Documents the life of the man who rubbed shoulders with some of the twentieth century's important artists - including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Wallace Stevens, and Allen Ginsberg. Read more...

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Autobiographical Writings by Mark Twain

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. In 1853 he left home, earning a living as an itinerant type-setter, and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Read more...

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Under the Big Sky by Jackson J. Benson

Offers rare insight into the life and work of a remarkable writer and into the making of the literary West Read more...

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Christina Rossetti by Jan Marsh

A biography of Rossetti that pays attention to the individual and her variety of devotional poetry. It delineates an appealing person while examining her adolescent nervous breakdown, abortive engagement to a lapsed Catholic Read more...

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Mr Foote's Other Leg by Ian Kelly

A tale of murder, comedy and tragedy: the riotous story of the one-legged superstar of Georgian London. Read more...

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The Life and Letters of Emily Chubbuck Judson

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Portraits in Literature

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Declaring His Genius by Jr. Roy Morris

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Read more...

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Emerson's First Marriage by Henry F Pommer

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Frances Hodgson Burnett by Gretchen Holbrook (Dartmouth College) Gerzina

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The Letters of Rudyard Kipling V5 1920-30 by Rudyard Kipling

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Richard Aldington

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Country Girl by Edna O'Brien

Lets us come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. This title provides encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life. Read more...

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A Dance With Jane Austen by Susannah Fullerton

Drawing on contemporary accounts and illustrations, Austen's novels and correspondence, we are taken through all the stages of a Regency Ball as Jane Austen would have known it. Read more...

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The World of Arthur Ransome by Christina Hardyment

Christina Hardyment places the much-loved English author Arthur Ransome in the settings which so richly define his work, from the Lake District to the Norfolk Broads. Read more...

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Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, the author was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? This Read more...

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Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby

The second volume of the definitive biography of one of the greatest modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005). Read more...

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Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Recollects the author's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the Read more...

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John Keats by Nicholas Roe

A biography of Romantic poet John Keats that explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, it reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but Read more...

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An Indian Portfolio by Mary Ann Prior

The book is a combination of biography and travel, laced with glimpses of contemporary Indian life. It is profusely illustrated by reproductions of Emily Eden's original paintings and drawings, many of which have Read more...

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Where's the Truth? by Wilhelm Reich

A fourth and final volume of the author's autobiographical writings, drawn from his diaries, letters, and laboratory notebooks. It reveals the details of the outrider scientist's life - his joys and sorrows, his Read more...

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Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank

Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works from his first novel "Poor Folk" to Read more...

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The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater

Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the break-up of his marriage that year, rumours about a scandalous Read more...

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The Life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock

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Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

In the brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," the celebrated novelist, essayist, and critic ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is Read more...

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Rebecca West by Victoria Glendinning

I had never met anything like her before, H G Wells wrote of meeting Rebecca West in 1913, and I doubt if there ever was anything like her before. Born Cicily Fairfield, West renamed herself after the Read more...

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Timebends by Arthur Miller

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Stephenie Meyer by James Blasingame Jr. & Laura a. Walsh & Kathleen Deakin

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Jack's Book by Barry Gifford & Lawrence Lee

The only oral, composite biography of Jack Kerouac. Being reissued, with a revised introduction,in the year of the film of his most famous novel, On the Road. Read more...

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Love As Always, Kurt by Loree Rackstraw

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George Mackay Brown by Ron Ferguson

George Mackay Brown is one of the 20th century's finest writers. This biography sweeps us along on an enriching literary and spiritual journey..Draws on unpublished letters, conversations with the enigmatic Bard's Read more...

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Edmund Spenser by Andrew Hadfield

Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing Read more...

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H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life by Michael Sherborne

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Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin

Presents the biography of our greatest novelist who brought us "Great Expectations", "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol", "A Tale of Two Cities" and Nicholas Nickleby. This title presents portrait of Dickens, Read more...

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Freelancing by Hugo Williams

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The Horror of Love by Lisa Hilton

The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times. Read more...

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The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin

Presents the story of the relationship between Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. This title details the relationship beyond all reasonable doubt. Read more...

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Jane Austen by Claire Tomalin

Presents the biography of Jane Austen. Read more...

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