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Biography by Hermione Lee
Category: Biography | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal things ...Show more
Body Parts : Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
Category: Languages and Reference
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in conn ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Category: Biography
The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanish ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Category: Biography
The name "Edith Wharton" conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanished a ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Category: Biography Memoir
The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanish ...Show more
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee; Kate Kennedy
Category: History
A group of notable writers — including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow — celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? D ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life by Hermione Lee
Category: Biography
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaim ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
Category: Biography
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014. Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, ...Show more
Stevie Smith: a Selection by Stevie Smith; Hermione Lee (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.