Hermione Lee: 5 books

Book cover of Penelope Fitzgerald
by Hermione Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most...
Book cover of Edith Wharton
by Hermione Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives...
Book cover of Willa Cather
by Hermione Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017

Hermione Lee’s provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer. The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebraskan who spent much of her life in self-imposed exile from the prairies she celebrated in O Pioneers! and My Antonia, a woman...
Book cover of Biography: A Very Short Introduction
by Hermione Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009

Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal...
Book cover of The Lost Domain

The Lost Domain

Le Grand Meaulnes

by Hermione Lee, Alain-Fournier
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013

The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend François Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand Meaulnes, disruptive and charismatic, on his schoolmates,...
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