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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the ...Show more
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature " An] intelligent and humane book...There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times In A Life of My ...Show more
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Award-winning author Claire Tomalin sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Jane Austen : A Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's ...Show more
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us "a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the pag ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
I am a secretive person to my last bones, wrote Katherine Mansfield at the end of her life.When she died in 1923, her friends mourned her lost beauty and brilliant gifts, but acknowledged that she remained an enigma. Since then, the true facts have been slowly uncovered to reveal a complex character and ...Show more
Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography | Series: Pelican Ser.
Meet Me in Buenos Aires by Marlene Hobsbawm; Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a jazz jour ...Show more
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin
Category: Biography
Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her generation, Dora Jordan played a quite different role offstage as the mistress of one of the sons of George lll. Dora bore him ten children, and they lived in quiet happiness in Bushy Park on the Thames until the unexpected news arrived of his ascendancy to ...Show more