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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Category: History
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys," " Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent m ...Show more
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography Memoir
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to ...Show more
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Category: unmapped
The late seventeenth century saw a revolution in man's thought, as Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil servant in London began to observe, with something of the same dispassionate curiosity, the strange object around which for h ...Show more
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Claire Tomalin's thrilling life of Pepys carried all before it when it was first published in 2002: it won the Whitbread Biography Award, and was then named Whitbread Book of the Year. Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of the man himself - diarist, civil servant, restless husband - who was presen ...Show more
Shelley and His World by Claire Tomalin
Category: History
"Shelley and His World" was universally acclaimed on publication as an ideal introduction to the poet's life and work. This much-requested reissue is guaranteed to delight Claire Tomalin's loyal readership. 'A vivid, amusing yet heartbreaking picture of Shelley emerges: poetry, politics, travel, friends ...Show more
The Invisible Woman (Film Tie-in) The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
'This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good . . . ' Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biog ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 1990 James Tate Memorial Prize for Biography, this work lays bare a literary mystery, the true story of the secret 13-year relationship between Charles Dickens and the young actress Ellen Ternan. The author also wrote "The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft", which won a Whitebread Priz ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good...Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the relationship between Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work o ...Show more
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", lived through the Terror in France, had an illegitimate daughter and married the philosopher William Godwin before dying in childbirth at ...Show more
The Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy; Claire Tomalin (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
A new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a novelist with a world reputation, but above all a great poet.
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
Category: History
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. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to ...Show more