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A renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages ...
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights
Distinguished theater critic John Lahr ...
'Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.'
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to ...
'The greatest writer of his time.' (George Orwell)The author of 20 much-loved novels and novellas, Charles Dickens combined humour and pathos to explore Victorian ...
There has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era-until now.
Beginning in 1947 with ...
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H ...
Accessible, lively new biography of an under-served female writer, from a bestselling, acclaimed literary biographer
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a ...
He was one of the most eminent literary figures in the world. She was the kind of pioneering woman who knew she could make the ...
'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker
'Brilliant . . . Remarkable.' New York Journal of Books
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The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an observer and chronicler of ...
A biographic novel that captures the tempestuous and moving life of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva.
The life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) coincided with turbulent years ...
Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated ...
We all think we know Poethe most popular American writer around the world, dissolute puzzle-maker, pioneer of detective fiction, and author of haunting, atmospheric verse ...
