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D H Lawrence (the Savage Pilgrim) by C. Carswell
Category: Biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
Traces D H Lawrence's troubled existence back to his working-class origins and gives a description of his life during the First World War after The Rainbow had been banned, when no-one would publish his work, and he became desperately poor.
Enid Blyton - A Literary Life by Andrew Maunder
Category: Biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
This book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of Britain's most successful and powerful authors. It ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh - A Literary Life by David Wykes
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship. Virtually all of his fiction was autobiographical, yet he maintained that his novels were 'objects', unrelated to the life of their author. This study traces the shifting relationship of ascertainable fact and imaginative fic ...Show more
Wb Yeats Literary Lives by Maclianmoir
Category: Biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
An account of the long and eventful career of Ireland's greatest poet, covering his directorship of the Abbey Theatre and period in the Irish Senate, as well as his poetic activities. The authors also analyze the contradictory qualities of Yeats's character.
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