Télécharger le livre :  Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William

Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction toRichmal Crompton’s less well-known...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-03-30
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Enid Blyton

This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton’s business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of Britain’s most...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-12-02
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman’s poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. Linda Wagner-Martin performs a close reading of many of Whitman’s poems, particularly his Civil War work (in Drum-Taps)...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-06
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-21
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Andrew Marvell

This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell’s life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same time, considerable space is afforded...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-03-18
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-12-03
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  H G Wells

This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-23
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde’s life, this volume documents Wilde’s impressive forays into education, religion, science,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-18
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  John Steinbeck

This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-15
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Toni Morrison

A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison — fiction, non-fiction, and other — drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-04-22
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an account of the poet's life, along with a critical reading of his work, that is designed to close what has been called 'the yawning gap' betweenDylan Thomas's popular and critical reputations....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-20
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Emily Dickinson

With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-14
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Tennessee Williams

This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-02-18
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Vladimir Nabokov

A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-11-13
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Iris Murdoch

This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-07-16
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  John Keats

At the heart of this 'Literary Life' are fresh interpretations of Keats's most loved poems, alongside other neglected but rich poems. The readings are placed in the context of his letters to family and friends, his medical training, radical politics of the time, his...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-26
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-07-16
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  William Faulkner

Despite all the studies devoted to William Faulkner, he continues to be variously perceived. Focussing on his fiction, this study of Faulkner's multifaceted literary life explores the distinctive blend of continuity and innvoation that characterizes his novels and looks...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-04-17
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Ernest Hemingway

Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-06-28
Collection : Literary Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Bram Stoker

This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known works, yielding...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-01-10
Collection : Literary Lives
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