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JOHN RUSKIN by BALLANTYNE, ANDREW
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his time. Yet his reputation has been overshadowed by his personal life, especially his failed marriage to Effie Gray, which has cast him in the history books as little more than a Victorian prude. In this book, Andrew Ballant ...Show more
Jabotinsky - A Life by Hillel Halkin
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and has been the most misunderstood of all Zionist politicians--a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journ ...Show more
James Baldwin - Living in Fire by Bill V. Mullen
Category: History | Series: Revolutionary Lives Ser.
In the first biography of James Baldwin in over a decade, Bill Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great American writer who refused to shy away from the fire. As a lifelong radical, anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, feminist and pro-Palestinian, the life and writing of James ...Show more
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Oxford Lives S.
This acclaimed biography has won both the James Tait Black and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prizes, and is considered by many to be the definitive account of Joyce's life and work.
James Watt by Nicola Baxter
Category: Fiction | Series: Famous People, Famous Lives S.
Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. In this book, the reader learns that James Watt was a scientific instrument ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a delicious prospect. And we are not disappointed' SCOTSMANJane Austen was one of t ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
An observant and revealing biography of this remarkable writer whose characters are as alive today in their longings as they were two hindred years ago, when Jane Austen first gave them breath.
Jane Austen - Inspiring Lives by Lauren Nixon
Category: History | Series: Inspiring Lives Ser.
Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist - 200 years after her death we seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & Sensibility and the smouldering passion of Pride & Prejudice - resulting in a near constant supply of film adaptations and spin-off books. The fan marke ...Show more
Jerome Robbins - A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who ...Show more
Jesus - The Greatest Life of All by Charles R. Swindoll
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Great Lives Ser.
Continuing his acclaimed Great Lives from God's Word series, pastor and teacher Swindoll offers practical insight and spiritual inspiration from the Gospel accounts on the life of Christ. Discover anew the power of Jesus' miracles, parables, death, and resurrection in this theologically rich, historical ...Show more
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe by Jeremy Adler
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe's major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egm ...Show more
John Curtin: A Biography by Lloyd Ross
Category: Biography | Series: Melbourne University Press Australian Lives S.
Lloyd Ross sums up the character of the wartime Labor Prime Minister who fought Churchill to bring back Australian troops from Europe to defend his nation: "Curtin was a complex character. Warm and sympathetic, but cold and aloof; a comrade but a loner; a rebel and anti-conscriptionist but Prime Ministe ...Show more