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
My Dear Governess - The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann by Irene Goldman-Price (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849-1916), a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters from her most famous pupil, Edith Newbold Jones, later the grea ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
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
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
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
My Lives by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
A moving, hilarious, shocking and enlightening memoir from Edmund White, bestselling author of A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty.No one has been more frank, lucid, rueful and entertaining about growing up gay in Middle America than Edmund White. Best known for his autobiographical novels ...Show more
Patrick White - A Life by David Marr
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Fool Of The Family: A Life of J. M. Synge by Mccormack W J
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
J. M Synge was born in 1871 into a strictly Protestant upper-middle-class Irish family. He spent his short life in a variety of situations; with his widowed evangelical mother, in rented rooms in Paris, in a primitive cottage on the island of Aran and in a nursing home where he died from Hodgkins¿ Disea ...Show more
A Traitor's Kiss - The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Fintan O'Toole
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The great Irish-English playwright--his politics, his impassioned life. A tale of stunning literary success, political celebrity and intrigue, early death, murder, treason, and revolution, this extraordinary book takes as its subject one of the most exciting and enigmatic figures in Irish and English hi ...Show more
Stephen Spender : A Life in Modernism by David A. Leeming
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's towering literary figures.Stephen Spender was a minor poet, but a major cultural influence during much of the century. Literary critic, journalist, art critic, social commentator, and friendend of the best-known cultural figures of the moder ...Show more
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life by William Gray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
More than most writers, Robert Louis Stevenson requires a Literary Life. Fascination with Stevenson's life (the 'Stevenson biography' is almost a minor genre) has tended to eclipse his literary achievement. This study focuses on Stevenson's writing practice within the different geographical, cultural an ...Show more