Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Reviewâ??s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald...
410 tulosta hakusanalla Hermione Lee.
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attemp...
Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biograp...
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen
Hermione Lee · ISBN 9780199578535
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti sidottu
James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of the law in England and India, and the judge in the ill-fated Maybrick case; a serious and prolific journalist,...
EDITOR'S PICK Their love was forbidden... The angels and devils have been rivals for centuries, neither clan able to tolerate the other. Evangelina Leclair is an angel in the...
"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh." --The Philadelphia Inquirer While Virginia Woolf--one of our centur...
Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)
Hermione Lee · ISBN 9780415562416
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist’s work in the c...
The Novels of Virginia Woolf (Routledge Revivals)
Hermione Lee · ISBN 9780415562423
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
This is a reissue of a critical introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf, first published in 1977. It makes close, illuminating readings of her nine novels, placing Woolf in...
Philip Roth (Routledge Revivals)
Hermione Lee · ISBN 9780415567992
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli englanti nidottu
On its original publication in 1982 this book was the first full-length study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. As well as setting the novelist’s work in the c...
The Novels of Virginia Woolf (Routledge Revivals)
Hermione Lee · ISBN 9780415568005
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti nidottu
This book, first published in 1977, is not about Bloomsbury, lesbianism, madness or suicide, but is a much-needed introduction to Virginia Woolf’s nine novels, written in the ho...
Terrorism: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in one of the most discussed, written about and analysed aspects of modern life. Common misconceptions are...
Terrorism: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in one of the most discussed, written about and analysed aspects of modern life. Common misconceptions are...
<p><b>A unique portrait of a great playwright by one of our leadin literary biographers. </b><br /><br />With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and count...
Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations...
What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articl...
Hermione Lee's provocative and influential biography provides a sensitive reappraisal of a marvelous and often underrated writer. The Willa Cather she reveals here was a Nebrask...
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways...
Her brilliant, disturbing fiction shows her deep understanding of the longing and struggle in women's lives. This masterly new biography draws on new material and delves into...
The London Scene
Hermione Lee; Virginia Woolf · ISBN 9781907970429
Julkaistu 2013 Kieli englanti sidottu