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Explores how generations of biographers shaped, reinvented, and fabricated the life of Geoffrey Chaucer Very little is known with certainty about Geoffrey Chaucer’s life, yet he has long been enshrined as the “Father of English Poetry.” Over six centuries, biographers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2026-02-17
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The Life of the Author
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George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites?
George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-15
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George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites?
George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-23
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Exploring the creative mind of Graham Greene, a metafictional study of a literary icon Graham Greene's novels offer more than gripping narratives—they are a window into the author's creative obsessions. The Life of the Author: Graham Greene presents a groundbreaking...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-08-19
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The Life of the Author
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An exploration of an essential but often overlooked figure in English literature In this innovative biography, Andrew Keanie explores one of the most enigmatic figures in English Romanticism. Known for his confessional prose and essays, De Quincey is more than the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-05-28
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The Life of the Author
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Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century—and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-26
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Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century—and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-18
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It's hard to isolate André Breton from the constellation of which he was the passionate nucleus throughout his life. A man of mad friendship, a poet of mad love, the poet of Surrealism knew only how to conceive of his artistic approach collectively. Frédéric Aribit...
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Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-12-09
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Graphic Essay
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'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.'
This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-06
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'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.'
This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-08
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As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to criticise abuses of...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-05-01
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THE LIFE OFTHE AUTHOR D. H. LAWRENCE Addresses the whole of D. H. Lawrence’s life and writing career—integrating biography, critical analysis, and recent scholarship in a single volume The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence is a focused exploration of the whole of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-26
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The Life of the Author
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'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2024-02-08
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A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. *WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION*Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2023-10-05
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After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-08-31
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In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-14
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An accessible and reliable introduction to the life and works of Charles Dickens, offering a unique combination of academic biography and literary analysis The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens explores the relationship between Dickens’ lived experience and his works,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-06-05
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The Life of the Author
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In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-30
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