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Anonymity: John Mullan
Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors’ names upon them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity ... More
Boon: H. G. Wells
First published in Britain and America in 1915 under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss, Boon (its full subtitle being the Mind of the Race, the Wild Asses of the Devil, and ... More
Byron: Fiona MacCarthy
Fiona MacCarthy's Byron: Life and Legend is a breakthrough in reinterpreting Byron's life and poetry for a new generation, showing him as a formative figure in European romanticism, as Byron ... More
The Child that Books Built: Francis Spufford
What would you find if you went back and reread all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this beautifully written memoir.The Harry ... More
The Childhood of Edward Thomas: Edward Thomas
Killed at Arras in 1917, Edward Thomas left behind him a short, vivid history of his own early life, covering the period from his birth to his entry into St ... More
Constance Garnett: Richard Garnett
The biography of a great woman - Constance Garnett, champion of Russian literature and translator of the greats, including Turgenev and Herzen. More
Dead Man's Chest: Nicholas Rankin
First published to widespread acclaim in 1987, Nicholas Rankin’s account of a journey in pursuit of Robert Louis Stevenson has won plaudits ever since for its blend of scholarship and ... More
Dickens the Novelist: F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis
In seven typically robust and uncompromising chapters, the Leavises grapple with the evaluation of a writer who was then still open to dismissal as a mere entertainer, a caricaturist ... More
Diderot: P. N. Furbank
Author of that inexhaustibly strange masterpiece Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot (1713-84) was also a dramatist, a speculative philosopher, the founder of modern art criticism and a tireless correspondent; he has ... More
Durrell/Miller Letters 1935-1980: Lawrence Durrell
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