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Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels". In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry of controversy and paradox.
Leonard Woolf - A life by Victoria Glendinning
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness. Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's biography, we see the whole man for the whole time. As well as being a prominent member ...Show more
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."
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