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Flush by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Virginia Woolf's humorous biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel is charming yet also radical. A work of sensuous imagination, it opens up a range of questions about class, society, and cultural attitudes which are woven throughout the whole of Woolf's writing. We are delighted to publish th ...Show more
Genet by Edmund White
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
'This biography is elegant meticulous and wholly satisfying' Sunday TelegraphFROM THE AUTHOR OF A BOY'S OWN STORY AND THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY'A superb introduction to the great novelist and playwright, vagabond, thief and convict, and to the brutal childhood from which he mined his remarkable vision' J G ...Show more
Roger Fry by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Introduction by Frances Spalding. Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she wrote this loving account of his passion for art, his own painting, and his challenging critical theories. Born in 1866, he was primarily responsible for bringing the post-Impressionist ...Show more
Shakespeare - Anthony Burgess by Burgess A
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Among Shakespear's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespear the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespear and his contemporaries ( ...Show more
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