Results for: books tagged ‘Depression’
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Sylvia Plath
From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make ... More
The Journals of Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath
'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the ... More
Personality: Andrew O'Hagan
Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, living at the centre of her ... More
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
The first and only novel by Sylvia Plath, originally published in 1963. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing ... More
Malignant Sadness: Lewis Wolpert
Several years ago, Lewis Wolpert had a severe depressive episode. Despite a happy marriage and successful scientific career, he could think only of suicide. When eventually he did recover, he ... More
Tchaikovsky: David Brown
This very distinctive new work on Tchaikovsky uniquely combines a lively biography of Russia's best-loved composer with a chronological guide to his music, ranging from the popular symphonies, concertos, operas ... More
Touching From a Distance: Deborah Curtis
The inspiration for the film Control.The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow.Revered by his peers and idolised by his fans, ... More
The Colossus: Sylvia Plath
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath’s poetry published during her lifetime. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection ... More
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath
The first and only novel by Sylvia Plath, originally published in 1963. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing ... More
The Stricken Deer: David Cecil
First published in 1929, The Stricken Deer was the winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil's first book.For a ... More
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