John Keats by Stephen Hebron
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: The British Library Writers' Lives | Reading Level: very good
John Keats died at an early age, leaving what have become some of the best-known English poems, such as Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode to Melancholy and Ode to Autumn. In this biography of Keats, Stephen Hebron traces Keats' life and development as a poet, assessing his work in the cont ...Show more
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. 'I have high hopes of dying ...Show more
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of I. Compton-Burnett 1884-1919 by Hilary Spurling
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Stevie Smith - A Critical Biography by Frances Spalding
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
"Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field."
Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Jorge Semprun was twenty years old - already an accomplished philosopher and poet - when arrested by Nazis for activites in the French Resistance. He was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Literature or Life, a bestseller in France, is a deeply personal account not only of Semprun's time at Buchenwa ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters by Kay Boyle
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
One of the Lost Generation modernists who gathered in 1920s Paris, Kay Boyle published more than forty books, including fifteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry, three children's books, and various essays and translations. Yet her achievement can be even better apprec ...Show more
William Wordsworth - A Life by Stephen Gill
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
At the age of twenty-eight, William Wordsworth had neither a settled income nor the professional qualifications needed to secure one. He had no home, and he could not support the illegitimate child he had fathered during an impetuous love affair in France. The total sum of his achievements since he had ...Show more
The Kindness of Strangers - The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and The Night of the Iguana. ...Show more
Tom - The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The riveting, revelatory, and sole authorized account of the critical first decades of Tennessee Williams's life. Tennessee Williams, author of such indelible masterpieces as The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, is considered by many to be the greatest literary artist of the American theate ...Show more