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In the autumn of 1873, Wilkie Collins followed the example of fellow literary celebrities Dickens and Thackeray, and began a six-month reading tour of America. This book places this tour within the American lyceum movement of the later nineteenth century.
These letters throw light on a more complex figure. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin shows himself to be a frank and generous letter-writer.
In this autobiographical work, specifically mentioned in Issac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Prize citation, Singer remembers his childhood in Warsaw, and especially the bet din, or Jewish Court, in his father's home on working-class Krochmalna Street.
The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age;
This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings.
This volume focuses on "Saved and the Pope's Wedding", a radio production of "The Fool" (1990), "The Company of Men" (1993) and the television plays "Olly's Prison" (1992) and "Tuesday" (1993) and provides background information for both the student and the general reader.
A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.
‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021
Looks at the relationship between William Faulkner and Memphis novelist Joan Williams. This is the study of the Faulkner-Williams... Læs mere
Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of Shakespeare the actor, poet, and playwright.
Else Lasker-Schuler, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, presided over avant-garde cafe life in pre-World War I Berlin. Her life and work as a Jew, a woman and a writer and artist in Nazi Germany, and in other locations after Hitler's takeover, are chronicled in this book.
Describes the social and intellectual life of 17th-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV.