Alexandra Harris: 3 books
by Alexandra Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A lively look at the English literary and artistic responses to the weather from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Keats and Ian McEwan
In a sweeping panorama, Weatherland allows us to witness England’s cultural climates across the centuries. Before the Norman Conquest, Anglo-Saxons living in a...
by Alexandra Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
An ideal introduction to the life and work of Virginia Woolf by an award-winning author: the story of a life lived with intensity from moment to moment and shaped into the lasting patterns of art.
In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything...
by Alexandra Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties.
In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman...