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Thackeray by D. J. Taylor
Category: Biography
"Vanity Fair", published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. This title shows that Thackeray was a complex man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publici ...Show more
The Lost Girls - Love, War and Literature, 1939-51 by D. J. Taylor
Category: Popular History
'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times Who were the Lost Girls? At least a dozen or so young women at large in Blitz-era London have a claim to this title. But Lost Girls concentrates on just four: Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton and Janetta Parlade. Chic, g ...Show more
The New Book of Snobs by D. J. Taylor
Category: Humour
'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern s ...Show more
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918 by D.J. Taylor
Category: Languages and Reference
What do we mean when we talk about 'taste'? 'Taste' takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day. And there is the taste of Virginia Woolf's elusive 'com ...Show more
The Windsor Faction by D. J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
"Terrific". (Daily Mail). "Tremendous". (Guardian). "Page-turning". (The Times). "Gripping". (Daily Telegraph). Autumn 1939. In an alternative world, where Edward VIII still sits on the throne, storm clouds gather over Europe, German troops amass and a 'King's Party' of fascist peace campaigners is stea ...Show more