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
Bram Stoker - A Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard -- a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of course, except for Dracula, which has enjoyed countless stage and screen incarnations and transformations and haunted the dreams of ...Show more
The Lives of Norman Mailer : A Biography by Carl E. Rollyson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
A biography of the American writer discusses Mailer's major works, from The Naked and the Dead to Harlot's Ghost, and reveals the man behind this often misunderstood genius.
J.D Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kennett Slawenski
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In this new and definitive biography, Salinger expert Kenneth Slawenski recounts the author's life. Slawenski researched the book for eight years, speaking with more than 60 people connected to Salinger.