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Lord Berners
The Last Eccentric
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Here lies Lord Berners/One of life's learners,Thanks be to the Lord/He was never bored.So reads the epitaph on the gravestone of Lord Berners. In its witty way, it hints at his range of accomplishment. He was a composer (admired by Stravinsky), writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed...
by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed and generous...
Women in Print
Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to...
Silver Fork Society
Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
During the years when George IV ruled the United Kingdom, first as Prince Regent then as King, his extravagant tastes served to characterize the times - the Regency period being identified strongly with new trends in British architecture, fashion and culture. The literary expression of this era was...
With Friends Possessed
A Life of Edward FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
'[Edward] FitzGerald (1809-1883) won a small piece of immortality with his translation-adaptation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... but in every other way he seems to have successfully avoided fulfilment. A godless Epicurean, he lived in permanent virginity, never pressing his homosexual desires...
A. E. Housman
The Scholar-Poet
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
A. E. Housman, romantic poet and classical scholar, is best-known as the author of A Shropshire Lad and the meticulous editor of Manilius, the Latin poet of astronomy.
In this first full biography, Richard Perceval Graves convincingly reconciles the two apparently conflicting sides of Housman's...
Ban This Filth!
Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement...
Henry Miller
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Bohemian, egoist and prophet of sensualism, Henry Miller remains to many writers and readers a literary lion. Born in Brooklyn in 1891, son of a tailor of German extraction, Miller would embrace a freewheeling existence that carried him through umpteen jobs and sexual encounters, providing rich source...
That Sweet Enemy
A Personal View of France and the French
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The English have always regarded the French with a passionate mixture of love and hatred. Simultaneously divided and linked by the English Channel - or la Manche - both countries continue profoundly to affect the other for good or ill. In his delightfully impressionistic appreciation of Britain's...
by David Stacton
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
'King Ludwig has fascinated me ever since I was a child, yet fascination is not quite the right word. Fellow-feeling would be the proper phrase...' David Stacton, 1957
With his fourth published novel - and his first on historical themes and personages - David Stacton's writing career took a...
by Richard Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Erik Satie - composer, dandy, eccentric - is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty-nine years for their most precious moments. Evenings of absinthe at the Chat Noir? Friendships with...
by Zoë Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.
In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty...
Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)
The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and...
Opera for Everybody
The Story of English National Opera
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements...