Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know - The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
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Category: Literary Biographies
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ...Show more
Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula - An Illustrated Biography by Neil R. Storey
$75.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature.Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access t ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
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Category: Literary Biographies
An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination.This gripping account offers an ideal introduction to both the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It considers each of Woolf's novels in context and shows why, ...Show more
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer by A A Milne
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Category: Literary Biographies
In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored.From Westminster School he won a scholarship to Cambridge University where he edit ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym
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Category: Literary Biographies
The stunning autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women."I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym." RICHARD OSMAN"Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure." JILLY COOPER"Could ...Show more
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2 : 1920-1924 by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Literary Biographies
New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
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Category: Literary Biographies
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023** ** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023** 'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDY Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was ...Show more