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Provides a biography of a great twentieth century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. The book details the story of how Ben Hecht earned admiration as a humanitarian and vilification as an extremist at this pivotal moment in history.
This elegantly written and richly detailed biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert Marder looks closely at Woolf's views on...
Upon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry and aesthetic theory. He also enjoyed an...
This volume presents all known Conrad letters from the years 1917–1919, many published for the first time, in a framework highlighting their literary, historical,... Læs mere
Argues that after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers fictionalized and metaphorized the lives of real people in order to provide readers with rigorous forms of critical analysis to identify root causes of political oppression.
Anna Akhmatova was a great Russian poet of the 20th century. Lydia Chukovskaya, an admirer who became the poet's close friend, kept intimate diaries that reveal... Læs mere
This crisply written biography traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood, through her tumultuous... Læs mere
Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959. This book examines Nabokov's work and interests durring these years, from his poetry and prose, to criticism of literature and the visual arts, and writings on the humanities and science.
Édith Thomas (1909–1970), a remarkable French woman of letters, was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time: most crucially the resistance to Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime, but also the Spanish Civil War and the...