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A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readers Herman Melville:A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-10-26
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Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-23
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In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-08
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Dieses Buch umfasst Studien zum Leben und Werk des in der schlesischen Stadt Glogau geborenen Schriftstellers Arnold Zweig. Ziel der Veröffentlichung ist es, des ein wenig in Vergessenheit geratenen Autors fünfzig Jahre nach dem Tod zu gedenken und seinen umfangreichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-01
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‘It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer’ Nicci French, IndependentIt was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village. Penniless,...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-10-03
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-15
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-15
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The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-12
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Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-17
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Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-01-17
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Die ersten beiden Beiträge, die Briefe Therese von Bacherachts aus Java sowie Alexander von Humboldts Bezug zu Afrika im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts untersuchen, zeigen, dass der afrikanische Kontinent vielleicht mehr als jeder andere bis heute stellvertretend für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2018-12-21
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A charming account of the life of enigmatic Queen Mary, wife of King George V, and a magnetic portrait of a vanished age'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever' - Harry Mount, Financial TimesWhen James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2018-09-20
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An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-09-12
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular, prolific, and widely anthologized lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This first biography, based on extensive archival research and interviews with Jennings's contemporaries, integrates her life and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-04
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C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children's books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC's microphone during the Second World War. Until now, however, the reasons why this medievalist began...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-18
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Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-05
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Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular, prolific, and widely anthologized lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This first biography, based on extensive archival research and interviews with Jennings's contemporaries, integrates her life and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-12
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The evocative, illuminating autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists.Lena Kennedy was sixty-four before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted, and it was among the shackdwelling community of the woods that she began to realise her growing need to express...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2018-05-31
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C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children's books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC's microphone during the Second World War. Until now, however, the reasons why this medievalist began...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-31
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