This third and final volume of Norman Sherry's biography follows the tireless wanderings of Graham Greene, the writer's final forays into the fulminating trouble spots of the world which beckoned as sirens all his days. From the perils of Batista's Cuba, the privations of the Be…
This third and final volume of Norman Sherry's biography follows the tireless wanderings of Graham Greene, the writer's final forays into the fulminating trouble spots of the world which beckoned as sirens all his days. From the perils of Batista's Cuba, the privations of the Be…
1. The golden child and the anxious relation to detective fiction -- 2. The second saddest story : despair, belief, and moral perseverance in The bookshop -- 3. Offshore : "between the hither and the farther shore"--4. Human voices : voice, truth and human fortitude -- 5. At Fre…
Christopher J. Knight's Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction is a study of the British author Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 - 2000), attending to her nine novels, especially as viewed through the lens both of "late style" (she published her first novel, The Golden Chil…
"The Crystal Spirit is a revealing look at the great writer and political thinker George Orwell, whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of twentieth-century literature. Perhaps best known for his enormously successful novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and for that other …
This book explores the lives of two writers, one born in Germany (Viereck) and one born in England (Crowley), who were both influenced by decadent French writers such as Baudelaire and Mirbeau and English poets such as Swinburne and Wilde. They both wrote decadent poetry early i…
Osbert Sitwell often behaved outrageously but he was also a gifted author of short stories, travel writing and essays. This biography by Philip Ziegler is a colourful evocation of a rich and unusual life.
Osbert Sitwell often behaved outrageously but he was also a gifted author of short stories, travel writing and essays. This biography by Philip Ziegler is a colourful evocation of a rich and unusual life.
