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The Violet Hour

Great Writers at the End

by Katie Roiphe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe...
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by Park Honan
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on...
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Painted Shadow

The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot

by Carole Seymour-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009

By the time Vivienne Eliot was committed to an asylum for what would be the final nine years of her life, she had been abandoned by her husband T.S. Eliot and shunned by literary London. Yet Vivienne was neither insane nor insignificant. She generously collaborated in her husband’s literary efforts,...
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Life in Culture

Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

by Lionel Trilling
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America’s most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture,...
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A Loaded Gun

Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century

by Jerome Charyn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The Oprah Magazine “Best Books of Summer” selection “Magnetic nonfiction.” -O, The Oprah Magazine “Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic...
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by David Bevington
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original...
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by James Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008

In Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. While Johnson’s Dictionary remains a monument of scholarship, and his essays and criticism command continuing respect, we owe our knowledge of the man...
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The Songs We Know Best

John Ashbery's Early Life

by Karin Roffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

The first biography of an American master The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the winner of nearly every major American literary award—reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him...
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Henry James

A Critical Biography

by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

The first book by distinguished novelist, journalist, and literary critic Rebecca West: a biography of Henry James Setting the standard for a century’s worth of criticism, Rebecca West diagnosed Henry James as an American who “could never feel at home until he was in exile” in this slim,...
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Tennyson

To Strive, to Seek, to Find

by John Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013

This biography of the poet is “acute in its examination of Tennyson’s character and his importance for Victorian culture” (The Times Literary Supplement). Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was...
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Between the Sheets

Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships

by Lesley McDowell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012

The literary critic examines the love lives and career ambitions of some of the twentieth century’s greatest female authors—from Sylvia Plath to Anaïs Nin.   Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) want to marry...
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Octavio Paz

El poeta y la Revolución

by Enrique Krauze
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2014

"Conversaciones, retractaciones, excomuniones, reconciliaciones, apostasías, abjuraciones, zig-zag de las demonolatrías y las androlatrías, los embrujamientos y las desviaciones: mi historia." OCTAVIO PAZ "Recuerdo la mañana en que conocí a Octavio Paz. Fue el 11...
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by James Como
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019

Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the thirties, he became a famous broadcaster...
Cover of I segreti del grande maestro tra musica e massoneria. Giacomo Puccini
by Paolo Nuti
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2014

Scarica gratuitamente i primi 2 capitoli della prima edizione del libro Libro sorprendente da leggere tutto d'un fiato. Una continua sorpresa ti tiene sveglio in una affascinante viaggio da oriente ad occidente. Inizia come semplice ed innocua autobiografia ma si trasforma velocemente in un...
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