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The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)

Florence Emily Hardy

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The great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life. It was published under her name, in two se...

The Early Life Of Thomas Hardy 1840-1891

Florence Emily Hardy

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life, which was published soon after he died. It offers fascinating insights into hi...

The Life Of Katherine Mansfield

Ruth Elvish Mantz

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William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist

Daniel J. Singal

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Amid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject—the nature of his thought—remains largely unexplored. But, as Daniel Singal's new intellectual biograp...

Thomas Hardy;: A critical biography

Evelyn Hardy

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Oscar Wilde

Sheridan Morley

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Reissued to coincide with the recent revival of interest in Oscar Wilde, this stimulating reappraisal of Wilde, his work, his life and his times, by the award-winning biog...

T.S. Eliot (Harvester new readings)

Ангус Колдер

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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Джанет Малколм

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Amazon.com Review Sylvia Plath committed suicide in February 1963, and since then her poetry, fiction, and, increasingly, her life have maintained enormous power over rea...

D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

David B. Ellis

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The final volume of the Cambridge biography of D.H. Lawrence chronicles his progress upon leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much new or unfam...

The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf

Jane Goldman

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For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters ...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who ...

The Complete Critical Guide to Thomas Hardy

Geoffrey Harvey

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Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

James Boswell

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In Boswell’s “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, one of the most gigantic figures of English literature is exposed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. This biography al...

The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2

James Boswell

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Queen Victoria

Giles Lytton Strachey

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This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness....

The Life Of Goethe

Джордж Генри Льюис

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Life Of Charles Dickens

John Forster

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John Forster (1812-1876), English biographer and critic, best known for his excellent Life of Charles Dickens. Forster met Dickens in 1836, and became his close friend and...

Virginia Woolf

Гермиона Ли

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"A majestic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh portrait. -- Newsday A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice National Book Critics Circle Award ...

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

John Worthen

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This first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them previously unpublished, to ...

A Joycean Scrapbook

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Research in the archives of the National Library has unearthed vivid pictorial material relating to the popular culture of early 20th-century Dublin, which was also, of co...